WATCH: Whitmer, Gilchrist announce implicit bias training guidelines
Michigan Executive Office of the Governor
By: FOX 17
and last updated 2021-06-01 14:08:44-04
LANSING, Mich. â Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist announced on Tuesday the state s guidelines for implicit bias training.
The governor had signed an executive directive last year creating the task force on racial disparities.
Watch the announcement here:
The Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs adopted new administrative rules that require implicit bias training as part of the knowledge of skills necessary for the licensure or registration of health care professionals in Michigan.
Tuesday s announcement caps almost 11 months of collaboration and engagement with licensees, insurance providers, hospitals, health care associations, legislators, state agencies, high education and community and advocacy groups.
Nearly a thousand health care workers in Ingham County are getting Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine every week.
Health Officer Linda Vail says so far, the state has provided her department with 975 doses of vaccine a week. They’re getting an extra dose out of some vials.
She says the staff and the schedule would allow for more. “We did ask for the double, 1,950 doses this week, and didn’t get it, Vail adds, but we will be asking again, and I’ve also made a few phone calls.”
Vail says the department is vaccinating 350 or more people per day, and could double or triple that if they had enough vaccine.