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a growing national collaboration of 65 leading healthcare systems building more inclusive and sustainable local economies

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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

  • Anchor Mission Playbook: New Learnings & Findings in Anchor Mission Execution

    October 9, 2024

    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

    June 26, 2024

    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

    May 10, 2024

    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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  • Group Mentorship Eases Nurse Shortage at Intermountain Health

    April 30, 2025

    HAN member Intermountain Health’s pilot graduate nurse group mentorship program looked to address the lack of qualified mentors to provide one-on-one support for their new…

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  • Join us for HAN’s annual Policy Day!

    April 23, 2025

    HAN’s Policy Day 2025 will be held on May 7, 2025, from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. in person at the Capitol Visitors Center (CVC)…

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  • Local economic impact with facility construction

    April 18, 2025

    HAN member UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new North Pavilion, an acute-care facility. This marks UMMH’s first significant…

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Join the Healthcare Anchor Network to…

  • CONNECT with a supportive, structured, and values-aligned network of peers to help you develop effective and impactful anchor strategies.
  • INNOVATE in a design laboratory where you can initiate and build shared solutions working with other institutions.
  • ADVANCE your institution’s anchor mission with the tools, strategies, case studies, and other practical resources you need.
  • SHARE candidly as peers with other leading institutions in structured learning experiences.
  • LEARN from a shared—and expanding—base of research and knowledge to draw from, building off best practices in the field.
  • ADVOCATE for what matters to your institution through a networked, collective, and national platform.
  • COLLABORATE with the support and networked services of a full-time team dedicated to creating productive opportunities to work together and share.
  • LEAD with recognition for your institution as an anchor dedicated to supporting healthy communities.
Find out more about becoming a member…

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.”

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Hospital and Health System Members of the Healthcare Anchor Network include:

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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

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