MHA Safety & Quality Symposium

2026 MHA Safety & Quality Symposium

Oct. 14, 2026 | DoubleTree, Lansing

The MHA is pleased to announce the MHA Keystone Center Safety & Quality Symposium, designed for chief medical and nursing officers and leaders across safety, quality, risk management and clinical improvement. The symposium includes content-rich sessions that help attendees explore proven methods to reduce workplace violence and improve worker safety.

Attendees at the 2026 MHA Keystone Center Safety & Quality Symposium will:

  • Recognize the connection between physical and psychological safety.
  • Discuss methods to promote worker safety efforts, ensure accountability and encourage continuous safety improvement initiatives.
  • Understand the roles trust, training and technology play in aligning people and policies to create safer environments.
  • Explore how law enforcement partnerships reduce staff risk and anxiety, and how shared communication and training allows providers and first responders to better support patients.
  • Examine programs that train managers to recognize behaviors of employees in distress and deploy psychological first aid and critical incident stress management.
  • Network with other Michigan-based clinical leaders.
  • Engage with healthcare vendors to explore products and solutions that address challenges and improve safety and quality.

Event registration will open in early summer.

Bryan Sexton, PhD, medical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Duke University School of Medicine, and director, Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science

Brian Uridge, senior director, Department of Public Safety & Security, Michigan Medicine