What is the role of your quitline in encouraging or supporting health-systems change? How is this role changing?
   
Let’s move to systems-change and some discussion of the valuable role of quitlines in encouraging and supporting health-systems change. To open up this discussion, NAQC asked Todd Hill, LiCSW, LADC, Cessation Program Manager for the Vermont Department of Health and the Vice Chair of the Multi-State Collaborative for Health Systems Change Executive Committee for his thoughts on the important role quitlines play in health-systems change efforts. Here is what he had to say...
 
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