Healthcare Anchor Network
Join a growing national collaboration of 75+ leading healthcare systems building more inclusive and sustainable local economies
You can’t create healthy communities in America without tackling the underlying place-based drivers of health that create them—like lack of economic opportunity and access to a good paying job. Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members are committed to making sure their institutional and operational resources are aligned with their clinical mission to improve health and well-being holistically.
The latest news from the field
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Anchor Mission Playbook: New Learnings & Findings in Anchor Mission Execution
Just Released! Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Rush University System for Health with the support of HAN, shares new insights, implications, and tools…
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Partnership & action to address inequities in place
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is excited to share Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which contains…
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Hospitals are affordable housing long-term investors
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and HAN member systems Kaiser Permanente, Boston Medical Center, and Trinity Health are covered in the New York Times article on how health…
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How Healthcare Anchor Network Members are Making Place-Based Investment Commitments to Address the Upstream Determinants of Health
Place-based Investment: The Healthcare Anchor Network defines Place-based investing (PBI) as an impact investment approach that targets positive social, economic,…
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The anchor mission ethos
A new Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health case study, Navigating Change: Sustaining the Anchor Mission Amidst Leadership Transition at UMass…
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Investing to preserve affordable housing
Thanks in part to three HAN members, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston Medical Center, and Mass General Brigham, along with the Boston Foundation and other…
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With 75+ health systems (and counting) represented in the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN), we bring together anchor institutions from across the country that together employ more than 2 million people, purchase $100 billion annually, and have $250 billion in investment assets.
Healthcare Anchor Network spotlighted in the New York Times
Featured News: When a Steady Paycheck Is Good Medicine
The New York Times traces the genesis of the Healthcare Anchor Network model for anchor institution engagement with the democratic economy from its origins in Cleveland with the Evergreen Cooperatives. It follows this thread through the creation of the Healthcare Anchor Network, which brings together hospitals and health systems in an increasingly impactful collaboration to align the nonprofit healthcare sector as a whole with what we have called the “anchor mission.”
Hospital and Health System Members of the Healthcare Anchor Network include:
Affiliate Members in the Healthcare Anchor Network include:
“An anchor mission means health systems leveraging all institutional assets, including hiring, purchasing, and investing, to build communities where all can be healthy and thrive.”
–– David Zuckerman, President & Founder of the Healthcare Anchor Network
