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University Hospitals Hiring and Training Programs

Sandra Contreras · Aug 17, 2023 ·

University Hospitals’ (UH)’s intentional hiring pipelines and paid training programs are explored in a new case study. The case study covers the program’s inception and design, strategies employed, and key stakeholders involved. Outside-in programs are external facing, intentional programs that source candidates from specific, high-poverty neighborhoods. Inside-up programs are for current UH employees, connecting them to career […]

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How Healthcare Anchor Network Members are Making Place-Based Investment Commitments to Address the Upstream Determinants of Health

bpham · Jul 6, 2023 ·

Place-based Investment: The Healthcare Anchor Network defines Place-based investing (PBI) as an impact investment approach that targets positive social, economic, and environmental impacts in specific communities and geographies of need (i.e., underfunded and/or underserved populations), while achieving a modest financial return (i.e., one that is less than market rate for that asset class). The purpose […]

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UMass Memorial Health Care Community Investing Program

Sandra Contreras · May 30, 2023 ·

UMass Memorial Health (UMMH)’s Community Investing Program is explored in a new case study. The case study covers the program’s inception and design, strategies employed, and key stakeholders involved. It also discusses several of the program’s projects, including Worcester Common Ground (WCG), Creative Hub Worcester (CHW), the Finally Home Fund, and the Tiny Home Village. 

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Rush University System for Health

Sandra Contreras · May 22, 2023 ·

Rush University System for Health’s comprehensive anchor mission Business Supplier Diversity initiatives are featured in our latest case study. As an anchor institution that has adopted the anchor mission, Rush is focused on improving the economic vitality of Chicago’s West Side neighborhoods and has consistently worked through multiple avenues to do so including healthcare, community […]

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Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System’s (FMOLHS) The Faith Fund

bpham · Mar 21, 2023 ·

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System’s (FMOLHS) partnered with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in October 2018 to launch The Faith Fund, a micro-loan investment fund to address a key driver of health: financial stability. In 2020, FMOLHS established the COVID-19 Faith Fund Emergency Income Stabilization Loan Program that enabled employees to […]

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Kaiser Permanente’s Futuro Health

Sandra Contreras · Feb 27, 2023 ·

Kaiser Permanente’s Futuro Health initiative is explored in a new case study. The case study covers the program’s history, design and implementation. Futuro Health creates education journeys into allied health careers. Futuro Health’s model currently focuses on meeting the healthcare workforce needs of California but has the potential to be scaled across the country.

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Accelerate Your Anchor Mission Strategy

Sandra Contreras · Feb 15, 2023 ·

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ProMedica’s Place-based Investment Program

Sandra Contreras · Oct 13, 2022 ·

ProMedica’s Place-based Investment Program is explored in a new case study. As an anchor institution, ProMedica is committed to focusing on upstream health needs and improving the economic prosperity of the communities it serves. ProMedica was a co-founding member of the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) in 2017. It signed HAN’s Place-based Investment Commitment in 2019, […]

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Trinity Health’s Community Investment Program

Sandra Contreras · Oct 6, 2022 ·

Trinity Health’s Community Investment Program is explored in a new case study. The case study covers the program’s history, design and implementation. The purpose of the program is to support projects, or loan pools, that will reduce social and economic disparities that cause unequal health outcomes for minority and low-income communities. These focus areas include […]

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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Healthier Together Initiative

bpham · Mar 22, 2022 ·

In 2019, HAN member Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched the Healthier Together Initiative, a $25 million, five year commitment to address the SDOH in the neighborhoods surrounding the hospital. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) leverages their Healthier Together Initiative to increase procurement dollars with local, diverse vendors and support vendors in registering as MWBEs in Pennsylvania, […]

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