HAN member UCSF Health is building the new UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco, a 15-story, 880,000-square-foot, $4.3 billion facility. The health system has adopted a 30% local hiring target for construction workers for the project and will also include new and expanded job training programs.
Continue ReadingPutting community into developing CHNAs
HAN member systems SSM Health and BJC HealthCare are partnering with Mercy, St. Luke’s Hospital, and Shriners Children’s St. Louis on their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to have a focus on upstream determinants of health and community involvement, which will include community surveys and a series of community listening sessions.From the St. Louis Public Radio story: Dr. Alexander Garza, the chief […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN member!
Welcome to Kansas City University (KCU) as a HAN affiliate member! KCU has a long, rich history of osteopathic medicine. Founded in 1916, KCU is the oldest medical school in Kansas City and the largest medical school in Missouri. KCU also has programs such as the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program, an MS in biomedical science, and a Doctor […]
Continue ReadingAnchor mission & human flourishing
HAN member SSM Health’s president and CEO Laura S. Kaiser writes that “it takes bold change and leadership to truly impact those things that contribute the most to health equity: the moral, social and structural determinants of health” and how the adoption of the anchor mission has paved the way for the health system to conduct equitable […]
Continue ReadingAnchors leveraging vacant land for affordable housing
June is National Home Ownership Month and the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) commends our health system members for their investments in and support for affordable housing, including ownership and permanently affordable housing strategies such as Community Land Trusts and Resident-Owned Communities. One recent example is HAN member UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh donating land to create […]
Continue ReadingEnvisioning the uplifting of communities
HAN member AtlantiCare announced VISION 2030, a 6-year plan to improve social determinants of health (including reducing food insecurity by 6 percent and unsheltered homelessness by 20 percent, while increasing life expectancies by 5 years) and expanding medical education opportunities (including YOUniversity, a clinical career program to grow talent locally that educates and trains students by providing […]
Continue ReadingBuilding trust & advancing health equity in communities
Lynn Todman, vice president of health equity and community partnerships at HAN member Corewell Health spoke with AHA Chair and HAN member Dartmouth Health CEO and president Dr. Joanne M. Conroy. The discussion focused on how hospitals and health systems can advance health equity and address social determinants of health by working with community partners. From the AHA Leadership […]
Continue ReadingAffordable housing for workers & community members
May is National Affordable Housing month and we celebrate the HAN member systems that are investing millions of dollars so that children and families in their communities can live in safe, healthy, and affordable homes! One example is HAN member Dartmouth Health’s work with other local businesses to incubate the $10 million Upper Valley Loan Fund, with Dartmouth Health as […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN member!
HAN is excited that Jackson Health System has joined the network! The Florida health system is a nonprofit academic medical system that is anchored by Jackson Memorial Hospital and includes six community hospitals and acute care facilities, and has 15,000 employees.
Continue ReadingHospitals 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 systems are increasingly investing in affordable housing—and are seeing the benefits with improved community health. From the New York Times article: Health systems are, however, not acting as banks, said David Zuckerman, Healthcare Anchor Network’s […]
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