864-P: Utilizing Certified Diabetes Educators to Manage Smoking Cessation

Introduction: Many health systems lack internal smoking cessation programs despite the need to personalize smoking cessation support for patients. Though smoking cessation services are important, systems often lack needed resources to create programs from scratch. Mount Sinai Hospital System implemented a smoking cessation program by cross training CDEs as smoking cessation health coaches since they were embedded across the network and experts in health behavior change. Methods: The entire CDE team was trained via WebEx lectures and through shadowing a tobacco treatment specialist pulmonologist in her practice. Patient and HCP engagement materials were developed as well as EHR enablement and policies/procedures to support the new program. The initial, target population was smokers with upcoming surgery since they were a discrete population and likely motivated to quit smoking to improve surgical outcomes. CDEs created personalized smoking cessation plans with patients and obtained medications through collaborative discussions with the patients’ primary care physician. Results: Eight CDEs participated. The CDEs report increased job satisfaction by operating at the top of their licenses and learning a new therapeutic area. Patient and provider feedback has been strongly positive, and the program is expanding. Conclusion: CDEs may serve as an internal resource to expand smoking cessation services within a health system. Disclosure A. Schwartz: None. L.R. DePalo: None. J.K. Simonson: Employee; Self; Pfizer Inc. E. Weinberger: None. M.E. Rodriguez: None. D.L. Rosenberg: None. J. Kartashevsky: None. Funding Pfizer Inc.