60 Summits: Montana

The 60 Summits Project is a grassroots effort to transform North American disability benefits and workers’ compensation systems and the outcomes they produce. In Montana, companies, organizations, workers and government agencies are joining in this effort.

The Summits in Montana have three primary purposes:

Promoting the adoption of the new work disability prevention paradigm for disability benefits and workers’ compensation systems embodied in the American College of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) guideline entitled, “Preventing Needless Work Disability by Helping People Stay Employed.”
Establishing an effective mechanism for getting the common sense and evidence-based recommendations made in the ACOEM guideline off the paper and into everyday use.
Creating concrete action plans for stakeholders to implement the guideline in Montana, thereby lowering workplace disability (“medically-related” time away from work or on “light duty” with less than full productivity).

Montana held three summits in 2008 and gathered a great deal of information about improving workers’ compensation systems for Montana businesses and workers. For more information on Montana’s Summit findings and the 60 Summits Project, please download the pdfs, below.

none Montana 60 Summits Project Findings, Executive Summary