HAN member Bon Secours Mercy Health provides community investment funds to support the purchase and renovation of homes in Ohio. The program is aligned with other housing initiatives that the health system supports in these communities. Bon Secours Mercy Health also looks to support employees’ well-being by providing down payment support along with helping to “build up homeownership in local communities, and encourage community investment and stabilization.”
From the Catholic Health Association article:
Since about 2017, Mercy Health has been partnering with others to restabilize a particular local census tract in Lima that was at a “tipping point” between resurgence and deterioration. Mercy Health has been providing community investment fund dollars to a company formed by some Lima business owners to purchase and renovate homes in that census tract.
