The Last Cigarette Standing - Caring for those Patients who Continue to Smoke in 2025

Document Type

Presentation

Department

Medicine

Abstract

The Last Cigarette Standing - Caring for those Patients who Continue to Smoke in 2025. Lorinda Parks, MD, Primary Care Regional Medical Director

Objectives:

  • Tobacco Use remains around 12% in our counties and yet we have significant knowledge of the deleterious health effects from the habit. Quitting smoking has an almost immediate cost benefit to our health systems from a population standpoint. As RRH moves to value based care, primary care needs an invigorated approach from our primary care providers to tackle this outsized health problem.
  • Understand the multifactorial health detriments related to tobacco abuse
  • Comprehend how our population still using cigarettes at RRH will “perform” against their non-smoking peers going into a value based care model

Publication Date

6-17-2025

Loading...

Media is loading
 

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS