MiBlue Daily
June 25, 2026
Meghan O’Brien
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan is continuing its longstanding funding relationship with the Michigan Health and Hospital Association (MHA) Keystone Center with a $1 million contribution that will directly support the MHA Keystone Center’s focus on improving the physical and psychological safety of patients and healthcare professionals.
In particular, the funding will allow the MHA Keystone Center to continue the following initiatives:
- Improving maternal health safety, including the MHA Keystone Center’s participation in the Michigan Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health (MI AIM) and assisting hospitals in adhering to Maternal Levels of Care Verification standards established by The Joint Commission.
- Offering various educational events, including the annual MHA Keystone Center Safety & Quality Symposium, as well as healthcare worker trainings on de-escalation, preventing musculoskeletal injuries, and active shooter response.
- Strengthening caregiver engagement, training, and support through continued refinement and dissemination of the MHA Keystone Center Caregiver Navigation Toolkit to hospitals, health systems, and other healthcare providers.
Since the launch of the MHA Keystone Center in 2003, participating hospitals have made significant strides in increasing safety and quality and have been recognized nationally for their work to improve care statewide. This newest investment from Blue Cross adds to the $21 million the organization has provided to the MHA Keystone Center since 2009.
Since its inception, MHA Keystone Center initiatives have saved more than 5,150 lives and provided more than $565 million in cost savings. Among the MHA Keystone Center’s most recent successes with increasing safety and quality, data shows Michigan hospitals participating in its workplace safety program realized a 20% reduction in all workforce harm from 2019-2024, representing a 38.5% reduction in workers’ injuries baseline costs. As for maternal health safety work, 89% of Michigan birthing hospitals are now participating in MI AIM, with participating hospitals contributing high rates of compliance with risk assessments that address pre- and post-partum obstetric hemorrhagic risk, quantitative blood loss, and severe hypertension. Lastly, the MHA Keystone Center oversees Michigan’s work with Superior Health, a Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization comprised of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, whose efforts from 2020-2025 have avoided 268,656 harms and a 20% improvement rate in hospital readmissions across the three states.