The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Anchoring Health beyond Clinical Care: UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission Project” showcases how HAN and its health systems supported UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission journey.
Continue ReadingThe Practical Playbook II is the first resource to thoroughly lay out what works (and what doesn’t) when collaborating for change on health issues.
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.
Continue ReadingAnchor Collaboratives: Building bridges with place-based partnerships and anchor institutions
Healthcare Anchor Network’s director of communication and policy Bich Ha Pham co-authored the report Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions, which discusses the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address social and economic disparities and to revitalize local communities. The report focuses on the work […]
Continue ReadingCHOP’s CAPP+ Campaign
Starting this year HAN member Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in partnership with the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp., initiated a new campaign called CAPP+ which is a pilot program to conduct asthma-trigger removal in the homes of 10 CAPP patients.
Continue ReadingAdvancing the Anchor Mission of Healthcare
In December 2016, leaders from 40 health systems gathered in Washington, DC to explore the potential to more fully harness their economic power to inclusively and sustainably benefit the long-term well-being of American communities. This report summarizes the events of the convening and presents the health systems’ collective vision of the Healthcare Anchor Network.
Continue ReadingSound the Alarm: Our Housing Crisis Is a Health Crisis
Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Bechara Choucair writes about the health system’s participation in the Healthcare Anchor Network-sponsored Housing for Health Congressional briefing to raise awareness among federal lawmakers and to advocate for actionable policy solutions.
Continue ReadingMetroHealth Partners with the Latino Construction Program to Train Apprentices for its New Hospital Facilities
MetroHealth has pledged to work to increase its hiring of local workers and to use small, minority and women-owned Cleveland businesses as part of a Community Benefits Agreement for construction of its $946-million transformation plan, an 11-story 264-bed hospital on its main campus in Cleveland.
Continue Reading2019 County Health Rankings
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s 2019 list of the healthiest counties in the U.S. focused on access to good and affordable housing as a pressing health issue. Another housing and health report by Enterprise’s Health Begins with Home initiative included survey results showing that renters often delay regular medical visits and forego treatment plans, particularly people who pay a large part of their income for rent.
Continue ReadingHAN Member MetroHealth Commits to $15 Minimum Wage for Workers
MetroHealth announced that all employees will receive a $15 minimum wage increase as part of its commitment to give all full-time employees the ability to earn a self-sustaining income. Cleveland Clinic announced last December that it would raise the minimum wage for hourly employees to $15 by 2020. The minimum wage in Ohio is $8.55 an hour and the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
Continue ReadingChicago Hospitals form the Chicago HEAL Initiative (Hospital Engagement, Action, and Leadership)
Healthcare Anchor Network members Advocate Christ Medical Center, AMITA Health’s Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Rush University Medical Center, together with six of the other largest hospitals serving Chicago, announced the formation of HEAL, a groundbreaking new initiative aimed at reducing violence and improving health in Chicago’s most underserved neighborhoods.
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