EX Program By Truth Initiative® And McLeod Health Join Forces To Help Employees, Patients Live Tobacco Free
With Support from Truth Initiative, the EX® Program Brings Personalized Quit Smoking Tools to the McLeod Health Employee Wellness Program
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®, the national public health organization inspiring lives free from smoking, vaping and nicotine, today announced that it is joining forces with McLeod Health, a leading healthcare network.
The EX Program will be available to the nearly 8,900 employees working for the McLeod Health system of hospitals and physician practices in northeastern South Carolina. The McLeod Healthier You Program will integrate the EX Program into its overall wellness package for employees. With the EX Program, McLeod Health will now provide all employees who use tobacco including smokers with chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease tailored support to quit.
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McLeod Health Clarendon vaccinated its first physicians for COVID-19 on Thursday, December 17, 2020. Dr. Catherine Rabon, Chief Medical Officer for McLeod Health Clarendon and an Emergency Medicine Physician, Dr. Steven Nathanson, received the first doses of the vaccine at McLeod Health Clarendon.
Following the receipt of her vaccine, Dr. Rabon said, “While there is always some anxiety about the unknown, I am excited to have the opportunity to receive the vaccine as this is one more weapon in our armamentarium for our fight against COVID-19. Anything I can do to help keep my patients, my family and myself safe is well worth it.”