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Lansing Health care professionals in Michigan will soon have to go through implicit bias training to obtain or renew their state licenses under rules announced Tuesday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer s administration.
The policy could be among the lasting reforms of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had a disproportionate impact on Black Michiganians. Whitmer, Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist and Orlene Hawks, director of the state Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, detailed the new standard during a press conference at the Forest Community Health Center in Lansing.
The new policy is set to take effect a year later on June 1, 2022.
Suzanne Thelen
LANSING Working on the frontlines, behind masks and face shields, Michigan’s 187,000 licensed nursing professionals have been the symbol of strength and health to all of us and especially to those isolated in nursing homes and hospitals. With strong dedication to their profession and the people they care for, licensed nursing professionals have gone above and beyond to care for their patients during pandemic times, often substituting for absent patient family members while isolating from their own families. It is with a great debt of gratitude that we recognize these hardworking healthcare professionals every day, and especially during National Nurses Week, May 6 through 12.