The Healthcare Anchor Network just released Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which captures a comprehensive set of learnings to date from this growing body of work on anchor collaborative’s collective strategies, including key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build […]
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FY23 Data Submission
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Infographic: A Framework for Impact Hiring and Workforce Development Seventeen Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) health system members signed the “Impact Workforce Commitment” (IWC) to build healthy and equitable local economies through their hiring and workforce development programs and policies. The commitment includes aligning hiring and workforce power with clinical and community efforts to provide opportunities for individuals from underresourced […]
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The Community Engagement Spectrum highlights different access points and opportunities that may exist for community stakeholders to engage a health institution in identifying community needs, developing strategies, implementing solutions, and evaluating progress. Case studies show how health systems have collaborated with community stakeholders around anchor mission implementation.
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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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In our latest case study we feature Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Baystate Health, a nonprofit, integrated health system serving over 800,000 people across western New England. Based in Springfield, Massachusetts, it is the largest healthcare organization in western Massachusetts, with a workforce of over 13,000 employees across its four hospitals.
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