Workability in Michigan was formed to produce a summit meeting which is part of the “60 Summits” project.
- 60 Summits Project is a grass-roots approach to transforming North American disability benefits and workers’ compensation systems and the outcomes they produce.
- 60 Summits project was founded to promote the adoption of the ACOEM’s (American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine) 16 recommendations for improvement of the stay at work and return to work process.
- Workability in Michigan is comprised of stakeholders from a wide variety of entities throughout the state of Michigan.
- Focus of the summit is to raise awareness of the ACOEM guidelines and to provide workshops where stakeholders collaborate to make the SAW/RTW process function well. Here is a Summary of the ACOEM guidelines.
- Outcome is a consortium of people who are inspired and willing to actualize the consensus agreements, preliminary plans, and commitments that were made in the initial summit.
The Workability in Michigan Summit is planned for May, 2009.
