HAN member Intermountain Health’s pilot graduate nurse group mentorship program looked to address the lack of qualified mentors to provide one-on-one support for their new graduate nurses. This situation was partly due to high nursing turnover and the increased number of novice nurses. The new group mentorship model enables small cohorts of new graduate nurses to receive the mentoring support […]
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HAN’s Policy Day 2025 will be held on May 7, 2025, from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. in person at the Capitol Visitors Center (CVC) in Washington, D.C., and online. This is a year of uncertainties at the federal level. Still, working together, we will protect and advance meaningful solutions to the nation’s immense shortage of affordable homes and lack […]
Continue ReadingLocal economic impact with facility construction
HAN member UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) recently celebrated the grand opening of its new North Pavilion, an acute-care facility. This marks UMMH’s first significant capital project, which utilizes local businesses directly as part of one of the system’s four anchor mission pillars. From the Worcester Business Journal article: As of mid-2024, UMMH reported 22% of the conversion projects contracts were […]
Continue ReadingAmplifying the collective impact of local groups
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Endeavor Health announced $8.8 million of Community Investment Fund (CIF) awards to 44 local organizations and partnerships in the Chicago area to address social drivers of health and remove barriers to care. The awards include funding for workforce development and housing insecurity. From the Crain’s Chicago Business article: One example, Jeff Zakem [Endeavor’s […]
Continue ReadingJoin us for HAN’s annual Policy Day!
HAN’s Policy Day 2025 will be held on May 7, 2025, from 9:15 to 11:30 a.m. in person at the Capitol Visitors Center (CVC) in Washington, D.C., and online. This is a year of uncertainties at the federal level but working together we will protect and advance meaningful solutions to the nation’s immense shortage of affordable homes and lack […]
Continue ReadingAnchor relationships with local businesses
HAN member Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is an anchor partner of the Economy League’s PAGE Initiatives (Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity) along with many other anchor institutions, community partners, and funders. PAGE helps local businesses develop and grow relationships with hospitals and universities. One such business is PRIDE Enterprises, which has grown by nearly 100% over the past 3 years thanks in […]
Continue ReadingPutting anchor assets to work for local businesses
“We are able to take care of business like we’re supposed to. We’re able to see our goals being fulfilled with this building. We’re able to breathe a little easier and not have those high-interest loans hanging over our heads. We were able to believe in the banking system again,” said Deborah James of Freddie […]
Continue ReadingTangible actions to drive health & wellbeing
HAN’s president and founder, David Zuckerman, shared his perspective on how health systems can be part of the long-term solution to community disinvestment and economic insecurity through leveraging their place-based economic power. From The Health System CXO podcast: One of the things that we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is really putting concepts focused on […]
Continue ReadingJoin us for HAN’s annual Policy Day!
HAN’s Policy Day 2025 will be held on May 7, 2025 from 9:00 am to 11:30 am in person at the Rayburn House Office Building, Foyer in Washington, D.C. and online. Please save the date! A registration email with the event agenda and speaker lineup will be sent out in later this month. This is a year of uncertainties at the federal […]
Continue ReadingFunding our neighborhoods for community health
HAN member Stanford Health Care hosted a Health Equity Symposium that highlighted the importance of partnerships in addressing disparities. When Martin Luther King Jr. alluded to disparities in income, housing and education during a speech at Stanford University in 1967, he was referring to what physicians today would recognize as social determinants of health, said Joyce Sackey, MD, chief equity, […]
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