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Protected: HAN 2025 Convening Presentations

Sandra Contreras · Oct 16, 2025 ·

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How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Economic Development 

Sandra Contreras · Sep 29, 2025 ·

Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are dedicated to helping institutions leverage their financial resources to invest in key social drivers of health to create resilient local communities. Over the past seven years, LISC has partnered with 20 HAN members on initiatives that promote economic development and community resilience. HAN members have deployed $107 million through LISC, including $84 million in loans and $23 million in grants, to help finance affordable housing, small business lending, real estate development, local economic development strategies, and community wealth building. These efforts have impacted communities in 23 of LISC’s local markets.

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How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Affordable Housing

Sandra Contreras · Sep 22, 2025 ·

Rendering of Western Landing, an 80-unit residence in Los Angeles for people experiencing homelessness. Courtesy of the Modular Housing Fund.

Social and economic factors—including access to quality housing and jobs, and opportunities to start and grow a business—shape the health and well-being of communities. Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are dedicated to helping institutions leverage their financial resources to invest in these social drivers of health to create resilient communities. This is the first of a two-part series highlighting how HAN members are partnering with LISC to invest in affordable housing and economic development.

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Intermountain Health Place-based Investing Case Study

Javier Limon · Sep 15, 2025 ·

HAN just released a case study on HAN member Intermountain Health’s Place-Based Investing program, a strategy embedded across six states: Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. The program deploys low-cost, longer-term capital to address social drivers of health such as housing stability and financial wellness. By committing up to two percent of its long-term […]

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Expanding Place-based Investing Cohort

Sandra Contreras · Jul 29, 2025 ·

Summary of Outcomes and Learnings

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Anchor Mission Communications Toolkit

bpham · Jul 21, 2025 ·

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?

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HAN Convening 2025: Boston Registration Now Open!

Sandra Contreras · Jul 1, 2025 ·

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 […]

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Anchor Mission Implementation Roadmap

bpham · May 19, 2025 ·

This roadmap collects common milestones in the Anchor Mission implementation journey and shares examples of how health systems have educated staff on community needs and the Anchor Mission vision, created new staff positions to advance anchor strategies, developed dashboards to track progress, and more.

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Anchor Mission Playbook: New Learnings & Findings in Anchor Mission Execution

Sandra Contreras · May 15, 2025 ·

Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Rush University System for Health with the support of HAN, shares new insights, implications, and tools to aid in the execution of the anchor mission framework in the Anchor Mission Playbook: New Learnings & Findings in Anchor Mission Execution. The original Anchor Mission Playbook outlined strategies and insights to execute an anchor mission approach when the field was developing. Six […]

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Newsletters Archive

Sandra Contreras · Mar 20, 2025 ·

View Past Issues of our Newsletter Catch up on past issues of our newsletter. Our newsletter archive features a deep well of articles that detail how health systems are strategically leveraging their purchasing, hiring, and investing power to improve health and well-being by addressing economic gaps in the communities they serve. View Past Issues of […]

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