Webinar: How Indiana University Health is Reducing Hidden Healthcare Costs to Strengthen Its Workfor

When:  May 20, 2025 from 01:00:00 PM to 02:00:00 PM (CT)

Tobacco use continues to weigh heavily on Indiana, which sees significantly higher usage rates than the national average. This translates to over $3 billion in annual healthcare costs for Indiana Business, much of it tied to chronic disease. Indiana University Health (IU Health), the state’s largest nonprofit healthcare system, is taking bold steps to reverse this trend—starting with its own workforce. IUH will reveal how it uncovered gaps in employee outreach and reimagined its strategy to more effectively engage and support those struggling with tobacco use. These efforts are not only strengthening IUH’s internal culture of health but are also creating a broader impact on patients and the community, too.

Objectives

1. How IU Health discovered its need to focus on tobacco use for employees and the community. 2. How IUH redesigned its outreach strategy to better engage employees, especially around vaping. 3. Proven strategies for engaging healthcare workers specifically and the community broadly in quitting tobacco.

Presenters
Lauren Higgins Vice President of Client Success, EX Program by Truth Initiative Deanna Prine, MPP Consultant, Indiana University Health CEUs

1 (CHHR, ACHE Fellowship*, HRCI, SHRM) for live webinar attendees. 

*By attending the Transforming Tobacco Culture: How Indiana University Health is Leading Change in Its Workforce and Community live webinar offered by ASHHRA participants may earn up to 1 ACHE Qualified Education hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation.