Resilience: Strategies to Navigate Risk Management Hurdles
Patty Reinecke
Director of Claim Consults and TPA Relationships, Midwest Employers Casualty
In this episode, Patty Reinecke explores resilience strategies for municipal risk management. She discusses the importance of emotional resilience, early intervention and reducing mental health stigma. Patty highlights practical tools, peer support, and healthy routines to help employees manage stress and recover from challenges. She explains how resilience reduces errors, injuries, and claims, while supporting faster recovery and workforce stability. The episode emphasizes that building resilience is a shared responsibility, essential for safer, healthier and more effective municipal workplaces.
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Patty Reinecke
Director of Claim Consults and TPA Relationships, Midwest Employers Casualty
Biography
Patty Reinecke provides a unique healthcare perspective on the challenges of handling complex workers compensation claims. Patty manages a team of four full-time Client Consult Managers who help clients navigate the intricacies of challenging claims, regardless of the SIR, to get injured employees back to the highest level of function possible. She also works in partnership with the claims administrators who serve MEC clients, offering MEC resources.
Patty Reinecke provides a unique healthcare perspective on the challenges of handling complex workers compensation claims. Patty manages a team of four full-time Client Consult Managers who help clients navigate the intricacies of challenging claims, regardless of the SIR, to get injured employees back to the highest level of function possible. She also works in partnership with the claims administrators who serve MEC clients, offering MEC resources.
Patty earned a BS in Nursing from Maryville University.
