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HAN Members are Investing in Communities and the Future Generation

HAN Members are Investing in Communities and the Future Generation

lworth@democracycollaborative.org · Dec 6, 2019 ·

Bon Secours Mercy Health was one of 14 Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members that announced commitments of over $700 million in impact investing in November 2019. This Reuters article covers the health system’s investment partnership with Maggie Walker Community Land Trust to build permanently affordable homes in Richmond, Virginia—and the lives this investment has impacted.

“It became clear to officials at Bon Secours that the group’s Richmond hospital was sitting in an underserved neighborhood,” said Becky Clay Christensen, director for community health at Bon Secours Richmond. Christensen described Bon Secours’ new approach as a “neighborhood strategy” around health and wellness, noting that the effects are ultimately long-term.

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Jeisson’s immigrant family didn’t have any generational wealth or savings. Bon Secours Mercy Health’s investment in community land trusts helped him buy his home.

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