The Playbook includes a chapter written by HAN members Michellene Davis with RWJBarnabas Health and David Ansell with Rush University Medical Center, along with David Zuckerman with The Democracy Collaborative/HAN, titled Rethinking the Mission of Health Systems: Improving Community Health as Anchor Institutions.
“In advancing an anchor mission, short-term actions must be nested within longer term strategies and within a new institutional culture that more effectively aligns organizational assets and connects with other community partners. This requires new roles and responsibilities internally and more formal structure to encourage collaboration and alignment across large institutions—especially among their business units (e.g., procurement, human resources, treasury, facilities and real estate, and government and community relations).”