City Calls on Oakwood to Solve Issue With Hospital Smokers
A study session on a smoking ban ordinance for the hospital was held Thursday at Dearborn City Hall.
A study session on a contested ordinance banning smoking near Oakwood Hospital yielded no immediate solutions Thursday night at Dearborn City Hall. City officials met with representatives from Oakwood, as well as several residents of the neighborhood surrounding the hospital, to discuss concerns that the city ordinance—which prohibits smoking within 100 feet of hospital property—is driving visitors, employees and even patients into neighborhoods to light up a cigarette. Oakwood Healthcare enacted a no-smoking policy on all its properties in 2007, and does not hire employees who use tobacco products. However, that doesn't stop any smokers who were employees before that time—as well as visitors and patients—from partaking in the habit. …
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Carolyn Molnar
9:32 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
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