For the fiscal year (July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024), Trinity Health developed an innovative community impact measure which couples community benefit with additional indicators that measure: 1) work, 2) education, and 3) investments that achieve results above and beyond community benefit. Trinity Health’s Transforming Communities Initiative in 2022 funded nine multisector collaboratives to advance health and racial equity through policy, system, […]
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National Voter Registration Day – September 17, 2024 Celebrate democracy by helping to get every eligible American registered and #VoteReady for their next trip to the ballot box in 2024 and beyond! Vot-ER has free customized digital materials to print and use in your facilities and an email template to send to your staff for National Voter Registration Day. View Vot-ER’s upcoming webinars and […]
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Hospital and health system board members can be transformative leaders through a demonstrated commitment to health equity and diversity. This report contains case studies of executives and board members of organizations that are prioritizing diversity and health equity and inclusion, including interviews with HAN members UMass Memorial Health and Corewell Health.
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West Side United (WSU) is an anchor collaborative on Chicago’s west side whose members include HAN members Rush University System for Health, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Ascension. WSU members discussed the anchor collaborative’s strategies for the AMA Prioritizing Equity Series. Dr. David Ansell, Rush University Medical Center: Structural racism, economic disinvestment, these are historical trends, but they’re perpetuated in the day-to-day, and we had […]
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HAN member systems Corewell Health and Henry Ford Health joined the Detroit Chamber of Commerce to discuss how businesses are leading the effort to connect workforce shortage challenges with the half a million working-age adults in the Detroit Region who are disconnected from the workforce.From the Detroit Regional Chamber article: Regardless of the approach, all three panelists had a similar […]
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HAN member Maimonides Medical Center is a co-founder and member of Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC), a nonprofit that convenes community and institutional partners to strengthen health, wealth, and leadership in Brooklyn communities. BCC just launched its second workforce training pilot program for previously incarcerated individuals for full-time employment in healthcare. From the New York Nonprofit Media article: “We […]
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Patrick T. Harker, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia spoke at the Anchor Economy event hosted by the agency and HAN: “It is about spurring the imagination of leaders throughout the anchor economy to envision how their impacts can be multiplied by working with other anchor institutions in their own backyards. It is about spurring engagement to collaboratively tackle long-standing […]
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HAN welcomes Indiana University Health to our network! Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with dozens of facilities statewide, IU Health has 38,000 staff and serves more than 1.2 million individuals.
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Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is excited to share Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which contains a comprehensive set of learnings to date from anchor collaboratives nationwide about their collective strategies, and provides key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build momentum, and […]
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HAN member UCSF Health is building the new UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco, a 15-story, 880,000-square-foot, $4.3 billion facility. The health system has adopted a 30% local hiring target for construction workers for the project and will also include new and expanded job training programs.
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