Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Intermountain Health leverages its purchasing power to support local businesses and drive inclusive economic growth. One of those businesses is Ethik, a Utah-based company that employs 26 Afghan refugee women to repurpose blue wrap from Intermountain operating rooms into handcrafted items like crossbody bags and zipper pouches. From the article: “Intermountain Health’s commitment […]
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Continue ReadingIntermountain Health CEO Talks About the Importance of Showing Community Value
Intermountain Health President and CEO Rob Allen spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review about how nonprofit hospitals need to better define and communicate their value and what they deliver to communities. From Becker’s article: “Intermountain is enhancing transparency and reaffirming its mission to drive health equity and long-term community investment. . . . “So we gave back more […]
Continue ReadingShared Ownership, Shared Prosperity: Employee Ownership
The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true story of wealth creation – a tale of community wealth building, local wealth anchoring, and fostering lasting livelihoods for those on the economic margins. Founded through a partnership among the Cleveland Foundation, the City of Cleveland, and anchor institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, ECL anchors wealth […]
Continue ReadingAnchor Mission Communications Toolkit
Hospitals and health systems and other anchor institutions from across the country are adopting an “anchor mission” to tackle the underlying economic and social determinants of community health outcomes and community well being. But how can both the what and the why of this new transformative approach be effectively communicated, inside and outside your institution?
Continue ReadingHealthcare Partnerships for Community Wealth: A Look at Worker Cooperatives and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry
Dr. Geoffrey Gusoff with HAN member UCLA Health co-authored with HAN and Gery W. Ryan a study in 2023 on healthcare partnerships with community wealth building (CWB) organizations that included worker cooperatives. Read about Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in the National Association of Development Organizations article: The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true wealth creation story – a story of community wealth building, anchoring wealth locally, and […]
Continue ReadingHAN Convening 2025: Boston Registration Now Open!
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the HAN Convening 2025, taking place in Boston! From October 8-10, HAN members and invited partners will be part of three dynamic days of connection, learning, and collaboration designed to move anchor mission strategies from vision to action. This event brings together mission-aligned health systems and partners to […]
Continue ReadingHAN Hosts Policy Day on the Hill with Lawmakers and Anchor Institutions
HAN’s 7th annual Policy Day was held on Capitol Hill and focused on affordable housing and workforce development. We were joined by a bipartisan group of congressional members who spoke about the importance of affordable and healthy housing and quality skills training programs. We were fortunate to be joined by congressional leaders, national experts in affordable […]
Continue ReadingLeveraging Anchor Resources for Long-term wellbeing
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) President & Founder David Zuckerman spoke at the Penn LDI Aligning Health Systems with their Community’s Economic and Social Needs virtual seminar on the expanding role of health care systems as anchor institutions in their communities and how the anchor mission is a powerful tool to support health and wellbeing in neighborhoods. From the Penn LDI […]
Continue ReadingAdvocate Health’s Place-Based Investing Expands Affordable Housing in Bronzeville
HAN member Advocate Health is supporting a new affordable housing development in the Bronzeville neighborhood in Milwaukee that will add more than two dozen affordable housing units for area residents. The health system is collaborating with LISC Milwaukee as part of its HAN Place-based Investing commitment, providing a pre-development loan to help Bronzeville Estates establish its early footing in […]
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