| West Michigan parents work hard to keep their children safe. Mercy Health Partners and Safe Kids West Michigan are committed to providing parents with services to help.
Mercy Health is reaching out to area parents by serving as the lead organization for the West Michigan Safe Kids chapter. Serving Muskegon, Mason, Lake and Oceana counties, Safe Kids West Michigan has been working to preventing area children accidental deaths and injuries to area children since April of 2000.
 Safe Kids is particularly focused on providing car seat inspections. It can be difficult to get car seats that fit children correctly and are correctly installed. While an average of 75% of parents misuse car seats nationwide, Safe Kids West Michigan observes 90-95% misuse in West Michigan. To help parents protect their children, Safe Kids offers car seat inspections twice month at local fire departments. Parents can call the Kids Safe West Michigan hotline (672-3968) to locate upcoming inspection sites. More information is also available on their Facebook page, where they post regular information on upcoming events (http://www.facebook.com/safekidswestmichigan).
Having a professional check over a child’s car seat for proper installation is a simple way to ensure that children are safe. Holly Alway, the Safe Kids Coordinator at Mercy Health Partners, finds four key areas of concern with car seat safety:
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