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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Health systems connecting with disconnected workers
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.
Continue ReadingPartnership & action to address inequities in place
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.
Continue ReadingPutting community into developing CHNAs
HAN member systems SSM Health and BJC HealthCare are partnering with Mercy, St. Luke’s Hospital, and Shriners Children’s St. Louis on their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to have a focus on upstream determinants of health and community involvement, which will include community surveys and a series of community listening sessions.From the St. Louis Public Radio story: Dr. Alexander Garza, the chief […]
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Welcome to Kansas City University (KCU) as a HAN affiliate member! KCU has a long, rich history of osteopathic medicine. Founded in 1916, KCU is the oldest medical school in Kansas City and the largest medical school in Missouri. KCU also has programs such as the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program, an MS in biomedical science, and a Doctor […]
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HAN member SSM Health’s president and CEO Laura S. Kaiser writes that “it takes bold change and leadership to truly impact those things that contribute the most to health equity: the moral, social and structural determinants of health” and how the adoption of the anchor mission has paved the way for the health system to conduct equitable […]
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