The MHA Keystone Center was honored April 15 at the Michigan Workplace Safety Conference for providing essential workplace safety resources to Michigan healthcare organizations and their staff.
The Harry L. McKinley Workplace Safety Leadership Award celebrates organizations exhibiting leadership commitment and striving for significant and sustainable results for safety excellence in the workplace.
The MHA Keystone Center has provided crucial services to hospitals, clinics, primary care offices, laboratories and urgent cares over the past four years. The more than $968,000 investment has included workplace violence gap analyses, physical security risk assessments, de-escalation and active shooter trainings and safe patient handling and mobility interventions.
The Center was also recognized for forging partnerships with academic institutions to advance healthcare workplace safety. The MHA Keystone Center serves as a founding partner of the Lawrence Technological University Healthcare Violence Reduction Center, a multidisciplinary effort to research violence in healthcare and develop innovative solutions to enhance safety and improve patient care. Additionally, the organization collaborates with Duke University’s Duke Center for the Advancement of Well-being Science to deliver workforce wellbeing services to healthcare staff across Michigan, free of charge. More than 7,000 staff have received these services, with post-intervention assessments showing a 20% reduction in emotional exhaustion over the past three years.
The efforts of the MHA Keystone Center directly contributed to the MHA’s successful efforts to pass landmark state legislation, signed by Governor Whitmer in December 2023, which increase the penalties for assaulting a healthcare worker or volunteer.
For more information about the MHA Keystone Center’s healthcare worker safety initiatives, contact Adam Novak at the MHA.