A profile from the Department of Housing and Urban Development highlight’s Healthcare Anchor Network member Dignity Health’s Community Investment Program (CIP), which supports economic development in low income communities served by the health system, and which has made over 140 loans, totaling $200 million—with less than 1 percent losses.
Continue ReadingKaiser Permanente cuts the ribbon on a new medical center—built with inclusive construction hiring
There’s a lot to be excited about with the opening of the Baldwin Hills-Crenshaw Medical Center in West LA—especially the way a partnership with a local community intermediary helped KP use the construction jobs created to advance their “total health” mission as an anchor institution.
Continue ReadingPlace-based Investing Toolkit
This toolkit outlines place-based investing strategies that allow health systems to earn a financial return on their investments while producing a positive social, economic, or environmental impact within their geographical service areas.
Continue ReadingInvesting in Community
Via Health Leaders Media, a look at how Promedica CEO Randy Oostra is driving investments in community development to address the social determinants of health.
Continue ReadingSupporting Healthy Communities
From Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Total Health (which has graciously hosted our first two network convenings), a look at how the Healthcare Anchor Network is building a collaborative space to advance the anchor mission.
Continue ReadingFighting poverty in Baltimore
Via Yes! Magazine, a look at how Bon Secours is working collaboratively to tackle place-based poverty as part of its healthcare anchor mission.
Continue ReadingImpact Purchasing Toolkit
This toolkit showcases examples of how hospitals and health systems are supporting diverse and locally owned vendors and helping to incubate new community enterprises to fill supply chain gaps and drive local economic growth in their communities.
Continue ReadingThe Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth
This report from The Democracy Collaborative and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT focuses on the path-breaking Vision 2010 Program implemented in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio by University Hospitals System.
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