We Stand For Care

As of January 1, 2010, Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital are 100 percent smoke-free environments. Both hospitals adopted the new policy, eliminating the remaining designated smoking areas and making the perimeter around SHC and LPCH an entirely smoke-free environment.

Along with the School of Medicine’s smoke-free policy, the area that comprises the Stanford University Medical Center will become 100 percent smoke-free. The smoking ban applies to the area bounded by Welch Road, Quarry Road and Campus Drive West.

As is consistent with our values and COMMITTMENT to an environment of healing and wholeness, it was imperative that SHC and LPCH took this step in what is now standard practice for health care facilities.

Our COMMITTMENT to good health and positive health choices is vitally important to all of us in the SHC and LPCH family. As one of the most respected medical centers in the country, it is our responsibility to MAKE A DIFFERENCE by promoting a smoke-free environment for our patients, employees, medical staff, volunteers and visitors.