We are excited that Beth Israel Lahey Health has joined HAN. The Massachusetts health system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, specialty and community hospitals, and has more than 4,800 physicians and 38,000 employees.
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Five HAN members—Ascension St. Vincent, Baystate Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Trinity Health Michigan, and The University of Vermont Health Network—were recognized by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions as the 2023 Frontline Healthcare Worker Champions.
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HAN member The University of Vermont Health Network received a $1.5 million grant from Vermont’s Agency of Human Services to provide individuals with non-nursing-related training a 15-month pathway to earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) to help address Vermont’s labor shortage.
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HAN member Maimonides Medical Center helped to found Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC), a nonprofit that convenes community and institutional partners to strengthen health, wealth, and leadership in Brooklyn communities. BCC just launched a Health Worker Training Program for formerly incarcerated Brooklynites. From the BK Reader article: “Community health workers are trusted advocates for health and wellbeing in their own communities,” […]
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HAN members Ascension, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Memorial Hermann Health System along with several other health systems have received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to prepare high school students to start health care jobs upon graduation. The health systems will work with education partners to train students for careers in nursing, emergency medicine, lab science, medical imaging, and surgery. From the […]
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HAN just released a case study on HAN member Baystate Health’s Impact Workforce program that focuses on a number of zip codes and census tracts in the Springfield, MA area with some of the highest poverty in the country and a high concentration of employees earning the lowest wages. The formalized inclusive, local hiring strategy incorporates new, intentional, […]
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NEJM Catalyst held a webinar on How Anchor Institutions Improve Patient, Community, and Workforce Health, which featured executive leadership from several HAN member systems: The sessions covered: Engaging With the Community, Engaging the Health Care Workforce, and Engaging Patients.
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A big welcome to MultiCare, the largest, community-based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington. The health system has 12 hospitals and more than 300 primary, urgent, pediatric, and specialty care locations across Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.
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HAN member UC Davis Health’s Using Social Determinants to Diversify the Health Care Workforce Playbook describes how the health system initiated an anchor institution strategy and utilized social determinants, rather than race and ethnicity categories, to enhance diversity in its workforce.
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HAN member Our Lady of the Lake (OLOL) Health (a part of Franciscan Missionaries of our Lady Health System) was honored with the AONL Prism Award, which recognized its leadership in advancing diversity and inclusion efforts aimed at improving the lives of its diverse patient population and OLOL employees.
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