From the WILKES-BARRE CITIZENS VOICE:
…Starting Feb. 1, all job applicants – including for part-time and volunteer positions and students in Geisinger-based schools – will be tested for use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, snuff, nicotine patches and gum as part of routine drug screening…
Two other hospital systems in the state, Susquehanna Health Systems in Williamsport, and St. Luke’s in the Lehigh Valley, have already implemented the policies…
The policy will, in fact, cost money at first, but Geisinger officials hope in the long run it will have a positive impact on the cost of benefits, she said. Geisinger’s 2012 budget includes nearly $100 million in health care and prescription costs…
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