Firm Receives Honors for No-Smoking Policy

Santa Monica-based National Medical Enterprises Inc. is the first company to be recognized by the American Lung Assn. of los Angeles County for having a smoke-free workplace.

The company has declared that it will not allow smoking at its new corporate offices at 2700 Colorado Ave in addition more than half of the firm’s 37 acute-care hospitals throughout the country are smoke-free or plan to convert to no-smoking environments.

The lung association this year plans to acknowledge 100 companies in the county that establish smoke-free policies.