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As of July 2007, all OSF HealthCare facilities and grounds are smoke-freeenvironments. This includes medical centers and hospitals, provider officepractice sites, home care, managed care and corporate offices, and a long-termcare facility. In June 2007, just prior to the organization-wide tobacco ban,OSF saw a surge in enrollments in the Quit For Life Program.
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"By offering the Quit For Life Program in conjunction with workplacetobacco-use policies, OSF has taken proactive measures to measurably improvethe health of its workforce, their families and their volunteers," said MaryKate Salley, Free & Clear's Senior Vice President of Client Services.
Free & Clear is an award-winning program based on 20 years of research andclinical experience. The program provides one-on-one telephone-basedtreatment sessions with a professional Free & Clear Quit Coach(TM), as well asthe latest medications (e.g. patch, gum), and the only fully integrated WebCoach(TM) online portal and community. Once enrolled, participants havesupport available even if they quit and start using tobacco again during thetreatment program.
About Free & Clear, Inc.
Free & Clear, Inc. is the leading provider of coaching-based tobaccotreatment services for health plans, employers, and government organizations.Free & Clear helps its clients improve the health of their populations andcontrol related costs by reducing the prevalence of tobacco use. More than 50million people have access to the Free & Clear Quit For Life Program, whichhas had its proof of effectiveness published in multiple peer-reviewed,scientific journals over the course of nearly 20 years. Free & Clear is basedin Seattle, Washington. More information about Free & Clear can be found athttp://www.freeclear.com.
About OSF Healthcare System
OSF HealthCare, owned and operated by The Sisters of the Third Order ofSt. Francis, Peoria, Illinois, includes OSF Healthcare System consisting ofsix acute care facilities in Illinois and one in Upper Michigan, one long-termcare facility and two colleges of nursing. It also has a primary carephysician network consisting of approximately 170 physicians and 75 mid-levelproviders, known as OSF Medical Group. OSF HealthCare owns OSF Saint Francis,Inc., comprised of healthcare-related businesses, and OSF HealthcareFoundation, the philanthropic arm of OSF Healthcare System and OSF Home Care.Additionally, OSF HealthPlans, Inc., a subsidiary of OSF Saint Francis, Inc.,is a licensed managed care company in the State of Illinois with nearly 80,000members.Contact: Terry McMahan Free & Clear, Inc. (206) 876-2100 [email protected]
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