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Collective Strength. Local Action: Highlights from the HAN Annual Convening 2026 in Denver
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) Annual Convening 2026: Denver confirmed our mantra: “Conferences are where you go to listen. A HAN Convening is where you go to take ACTION!” Together, we experienced the power of Collective Strength. Local Action: Sustaining Our Momentum! The Convening showcased the impressive collaborations and achievements in our four anchor strategy tracks: Place-Based […]
Continue ReadingHawai’i Pacific Health: Place-based Investing Case Study
Hawaiʻi Pacific Health (HPH) operates four medical centers on O’ahu and Kaua’i alongside approximately 70 outpatient clinics. Guided by its mission “To create a healthier Hawaiʻi”, HPH utilizes place-based investing as a powerful lever for improving community health and well-being. As a signatory of the Healthcare Anchor Network’s Place-based Investing Leadership Commitment, HPH allocates 1% […]
Continue ReadingOchsner Health Maternal Health Case Study
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) produced Ochsner Health: Piloting a Community Health Worker position to support rural maternal health patients. Ochsner Health was a member of the HAN & NPWF Maternal Health Workforce Cohort and the case study covers how the Cohort helped the health system demonstrate the need for […]
Continue ReadingIntegrating Doula Support into Hospital Maternity Care Teams
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF) launched the Maternal Health Workforce Cohort in 2024 to identify and test workforce solutions to the maternal health crisis in collaboration with five HAN member health systems. This resource captures the Cohort’s insights, lessons learned, challenges, and real-world examples to help inform, inspire, […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN Anchor Mission Messaging Toolkit
HAN, working with Spitfire Strategies, just released Messaging to Communicate the Anchor Mission Framework Inside & Outside the Hospital Walls. The toolkit contains message platforms to help explain a health system’s positive impact on the community that resonates with key external and internal audiences. A message platform is a foundational messaging tool that can be used and adapted […]
Continue ReadingCommonSpirit Health’s $5 million investment builds childcare access
HAN member CommonSpirit Health’s Community Investment Program recently provided a $5 million bridge loan to Step By Step, a Washington State organization that supports new mothers overcoming trauma and poverty. The loan funded construction of The Barn, a 14,000 square foot early learning center that opened in March 2026 and serves 200 children. The investment came at […]
Continue ReadingImpact Workforce Toolkit: Creating Economic Opportunity through Healthcare Career Pathways
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) has released the Impact Workforce Toolkit, a practical resource that captures a decade of learning on how health systems can use their hiring and workforce practices to create meaningful economic opportunity in their communities. The results are that community members get a fair shot at a good job with career pathways and […]
Continue ReadingImpact Stories: Place-based Investing — CommonSpirit Health & Step By Step
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) catalyzes its 70 member health systems to leverage their hiring, purchasing, investing, and other key institutional assets as part of an intentional, place-based strategy to maximize their community impact. When health systems commit to place-based investing, they redirect a portion of their investable assets toward investments that improve the health and […]
Continue ReadingMind the Gap: Connecting Community Benefit and Patient Billing Leaders to Improve Health and Financial Outcomes
Over the last year Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and Undue Medical Debt collaborated to engage health system revenue cycle, community benefit and population health leaders to align strategies in helping patients avoid medical debt. Through the learning cohort, Mind the Gap: Connecting Community Benefit and Patient Billing, participants worked to forge new connections, better understand roles and data access and develop […]
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