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N
orthwest Hospital, a LifeBridge
Health Center in Randallstown,
Md., is the first Maryland hospi-
tal to be completely smoke-free.
Leading the charge was Debra
EMPLOYEE SAFETY
Northwest Hospital | Randallstown, Md.
An Exhaustive 3-Year
Quest for 12 Smoke-Free ORs
Northwest Hospital is the first hospital in
Maryland to be completely smoke-free.
Jeannette Sabatini | Associate Editor
OR
Excellence
Award
Winner
Although the
dangers of
surgical smoke
have hovered
like a black
cloud over
ORs everywhere
for more than
30 years, not
much has been
done about it.
• FIERY FIGHTER Debra Kording, BSN, RN,
CNOR, the perioperative educator at Northwest
Hospital in Randallstown, Md., spearheaded
her facility's smoke-free movement.
Northwest
Hospital
