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WIM-Workability in Michigan is a state-based not-for-profit organization of volunteer experts whose mission is to prevent needless work disability by helping ill and injured people remain employed in Michigan. WIM was inspired and fostered by The 60 Summits Project, which is taking a grass-roots approach to transforming North American disability benefits and workers’ compensation systems and the outcomes they produce.
The mission of WIM-Workability in Michigan is to prevent needless work disability by sharing educational opportunities and propagating the new work disability prevention paradigm as described in the report entitled “Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed” from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
Following a feasibility meeting in September 2009, a planning committee was formed to focus state-wide efforts on this issue. We held a multi-stakeholder meeting, The Michigan Summit on Workability, in Lansing on April 30 and May 1, 2009. Over 100 participants, representing a cross-section of stakeholders were present at the meeting. As an outcome, WIM-Workability in Michigan formed several action groups, committed to implementing the goals of the organization, and continues to meet on a regular basis.
Anthony Burton, MD; Chair
Dean Grace, DO; Co-chair
Ardon Schambers; Treasurer
Wendy Greene, RN, CCM, CPDM; Secretary
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