HAN partner Health Care Without Harm urges health systems to take climate action to protect health and health care delivery. The health care sector, as with all industries, must halve their emissions by 2030 on the road to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. One way to achieve this is to evaluate their financial investments and examine […]
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Join us for the 2024 Anchor Economy Conference!
Please join us for the 2024 Anchor Economy Conference in Philadelphia on on May 15–16, 2024. Cohosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Healthcare Anchor Network, this event brings together healthcare and higher education institution leaders, community development practitioners, researchers, experts, and others to share and discuss anchor strategies and best practices, as well […]
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HAN’s Policy Day 2024 will be held on May 1, 2024 in person at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. and virtually. Please view the Agenda and Register for the event. HAN supports federal workforce development and affordable housing programs to help create the healthy community conditions needed to keep people well, including after they return home from the hospital. Please […]
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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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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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