LIVE STREAM: Michigan officials announce new implicit bias training guidelines
Watch live at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday
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LANSING, Mich. – The state of Michigan is preparing to unveil new guidelines for implicit bias training for employees, particularly those in health care.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is joining officials from the Michigan Coronavirus Task Force on Racial Disparities, Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) and more to announce the state’s new guidelines for implicit bias training. The guidelines are meant to improve the quality of care for all Michigan residents, despite race and other existing barriers.
Watch the announcement live at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the video player above.
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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.