News and updates

HAN member Dartmouth Health invested $5 million with the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund to support affordable and safe housing. ​The Fund provides financing and education ​for a variety of community development and wealth building services, including support for residents of manufactured-home communities to purchase their land and become Resident Owned Communities (ROCs), such as Derry Oaks that is featured in the video.  See also: Impact Alpha article on how […]

Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is thrilled and proud that HAN member systems Intermountain Health and Cleveland Clinic achieved Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Masters status and 19 of our HAN members were included in Gartner’s Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2024: AdventHealth, Stanford Health Care, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Corewell Health, Banner Health, Rush University System for Health, BJC HealthCare, CommonSpirit Health, Advocate Health, Ochsner Health, Sutter Health, […]

HAN member University Hospitals’ recent $236 million expansion of UH Ahuja Medical Center in Beachwood, Ohio shows how large-scale investments in health care infrastructure can address community health needs and spur economic development. From the Crain’s Cleveland Business commentary by Heidi L. Gartland, chief government and community relations officer at UH:  UH is expanding health care access […]

HAN President and Founder David Zuckerman presented at the Vizient ESG Impact Spend Summit. He stressed the importance of taking action to be part of the solution through every day operations, providing inspiring HAN member systems’ examples in this area, and shared some key success factors. From David Zuckerman’s TED Talk: Perhaps most importantly, every single individual in this room needs to […]

HAN members are leveraging spending with existing suppliers in the communities they operate in to build community wealth through employee ownership.  Building Resiliency through Employee Ownership (BREO) is a three-year joint initiative with HAN and OBRAN Cooperative where HAN health system members aim to create better health and economic outcomes for local employees and their families. BREO participating systems are identifying […]

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is expanding its facilities in the Glenville neighborhood through the acquisition of eight vacant lots next to the existing facility, and the construction of a 5,000 square foot building. The expansion will create 10 to 15 new full-time jobs at ECL. There are currently 210 ECL employees who receive annual distributions averaging $9,000-$10,000 per employee-owner.  […]

HAN member Hawai‘i Pacific Health partnered with the Hawai‘i Department of Education to establish the new Waipahu High School Academic Health Center, which they believe is a first of its kind in the nation. The center allows more than 500 students to get direct, first-hand experience in healthcare, working alongside and shadowing medical professionals. From the Hawaii News Now interview with Dr. Leslie Chun, […]

HAN is delighted to have Mercy health system join our network! Mercy is the 6th largest Catholic health system in the U.S. with 32 acute care hospitals, and 17 specialty hospitals; and over 45,000 employees across Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. 

Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Rush University System for Health greeted the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to Chicago with a large banner on its hospital that read, “Who gets the chance to be healthy?” to raise awareness that policies at both the local and federal levels impact population health. Rush also penned a Chicago Sun Times op-ed on this topic, […]