The hospital’s current employees will be grandfathered in, but any new employment candidates will go through a drug-screening process that detects any nicotine from tobacco in a person’s system. The screening can detect if a person is a primary user of tobacco or if the exposure is second-hand, according to the report.
“We are committed to being the leaders in the…community in preventative care and wellness, and this new tobacco-free hiring policy reinforces that commitment,” the hospital’s President John Moore told the Daily Commercial.
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