Organizational Change

Organizational change is imperative to sustaining innovative measures of any change intervention. There are several websites that provide overall guidance to organizational change efforts.

• ATTOC 10 Step Approach
• 10-step process designed to help an organization systematically improve their tobacco addiction treatment for patients and change their culture to better address tobacco
• Destination Tobacco-Free: A Practical Tool for Hospitals and Health Systems
• This free guide helps hospitals and healthcare systems achieve a tobacco-free campus; the resource contains step-by-step directions, examples and other tools
• Massachusetts Hospital Association
• The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) is a national leader calling on hospitals to better address tobacco; their website links to our ATTOC consultation service as a resource for hospitals; MHA is providing outstanding leadership for Massachusetts and other state hospital associations by encouraging all hospitals in Massachusetts to voluntarily ban all tobacco use on their campuses; the MHA website provides additional resources to hospitals trying to better address tobacco
• Keeping Your Hospital Property Smoke-Free
• A toolkit developed jointly with ten healthcare organizations and the Joint Commission on successful strategies for effective enforcement and compliance
• Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) Smoke-Free Hospitals Initiative
• This website has links to resources, news clips, policy and communication samples, etc.
• Tobacco Use Cessation Policies in Substance Abuse Treatment: Administrative Issues
• SAMHSA's Advisory, Volume 10, Issue 3, provides program administrators with a brief introduction to implementing tobacco-free policies and practices in treatment settings