HAN welcomes University Health to the network! University Health is the only locally owned and operated health system in San Antonio and Bexar County in Texas. The system has 10,000 employees and includes University Hospital, which serves as the region’s only Level I trauma center for both adults and children, and the Women’s & Children’s Hospital. There is […]
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Investing to catalyze home ownership
HAN member Dartmouth Health has provided an additional $2 million investment in the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund to support affordable and safe housing. The Fund provides financing and education to help homeowners in manufactured-home communities and mortgages to other low-income home buyers. From the WCAX story: “The more challenging that sort of entire collection of those financial needs are, […]
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HAN member BJC HealthCare is providing below-market, permanent financing to build 36 new single-family affordable homes in St. Louis County, Missouri. The $12 million project is also financed by low-income housing tax credits. Roanoke Construction, a project partner, is very committed to minority- and women-owned business participation, projected to be 22% and 7%, respectively. After a 15-year compliance period as affordable […]
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HAN member Trinity Health in Grand Rapids reacquired property that had been used as a COVID-19 isolation unit but laid empty post-pandemic. Trinity Health worked with Dégagé Ministries to turn the 28,000-square-foot facility into housing for homeless individuals and donated the furniture as well. It is the first housing program in Michigan for women experiencing chronic homelessness. The 25 residents will […]
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We are excited that Beth Israel Lahey Health has joined HAN. The Massachusetts health system brings together academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, specialty and community hospitals, and has more than 4,800 physicians and 38,000 employees.
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Five HAN members—Ascension St. Vincent, Baystate Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Trinity Health Michigan, and The University of Vermont Health Network—were recognized by the National Fund for Workforce Solutions as the 2023 Frontline Healthcare Worker Champions.
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HAN member The University of Vermont Health Network received a $1.5 million grant from Vermont’s Agency of Human Services to provide individuals with non-nursing-related training a 15-month pathway to earning a bachelor’s degree in nursing (BSN) to help address Vermont’s labor shortage.
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HAN member Maimonides Medical Center helped to found Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC), a nonprofit that convenes community and institutional partners to strengthen health, wealth, and leadership in Brooklyn communities. BCC just launched a Health Worker Training Program for formerly incarcerated Brooklynites. From the BK Reader article: “Community health workers are trusted advocates for health and wellbeing in their own communities,” […]
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HAN members Ascension, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Memorial Hermann Health System along with several other health systems have received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to prepare high school students to start health care jobs upon graduation. The health systems will work with education partners to train students for careers in nursing, emergency medicine, lab science, medical imaging, and surgery. From the […]
Continue ReadingHAN case study on Baystate Health’s Impact Workforce strategies
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Baystate Health’s Impact Workforce program that focuses on a number of zip codes and census tracts in the Springfield, MA area with some of the highest poverty in the country and a high concentration of employees earning the lowest wages. The formalized inclusive, local hiring strategy incorporates new, intentional, […]
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