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Intermountain Health CEO Talks About the Importance of Showing Community Value

James Lifton · Jul 24, 2025 ·

Intermountain Health President and CEO Rob Allen spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review about how nonprofit hospitals need to better define and communicate their value and what they deliver to communities.  From Becker’s article: “Intermountain is enhancing transparency and reaffirming its mission to drive health equity and long-term community investment. . . . “So we gave back more […]

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Shared Ownership, Shared Prosperity: Employee Ownership

James Lifton · Jul 22, 2025 ·

The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true story of wealth creation – a tale of community wealth building, local wealth anchoring, and fostering lasting livelihoods for those on the economic margins. Founded through a partnership among the Cleveland Foundation, the City of Cleveland, and anchor institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, ECL anchors wealth […]

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Healthcare Partnerships for Community Wealth: A Look at Worker Cooperatives and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry

James Lifton · Jul 14, 2025 ·

Dr. Geoffrey Gusoff with HAN member UCLA Health co-authored with HAN and Gery W. Ryan a study in 2023 on healthcare partnerships with community wealth building (CWB) organizations that included worker cooperatives.  Read about Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in the National Association of Development Organizations article: The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true wealth creation story – a story of community wealth building, anchoring wealth locally, and […]

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Leveraging Anchor Resources for Long-term wellbeing.

Sandra Contreras · Jun 16, 2025 ·

Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) President & Founder David Zuckerman spoke at the Penn LDI Aligning Health Systems with their Community’s Economic and Social Needs virtual seminar on the expanding role of health care systems as anchor institutions in their communities and how the anchor mission is a powerful tool to support health and wellbeing in neighborhoods.  From the Penn LDI […]

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Tangible actions to drive health & wellbeing

James Lifton · Mar 3, 2025 ·

HAN’s president and founder, David Zuckerman, shared his perspective on how health systems can be part of the long-term solution to community disinvestment and economic insecurity through leveraging their place-based economic power. From The Health System CXO podcast: One of the things that we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is really putting concepts focused on […]

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Insights from Experts in the Field of Community Investing

Sandra Contreras · Jan 30, 2025 ·

In 2021, Healthcare Anchor Network president and founder David Zuckerman appeared on an American Hospital Association panel, “Insights from Experts in the Field of Community Investing,” alongside Robin Hacke, executive director and co-founder, Center for Community Investment; and Doug Jutte, executive director, Build Healthy Places Network. These leaders discussed and shared examples of how hospitals […]

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From transactions to transformation: Building healthier communities through Impact Purchasing

James Lifton · Nov 11, 2024 ·

HAN President and Founder David Zuckerman presented at the Vizient ESG Impact Spend Summit. He stressed the importance of taking action to be part of the solution through every day operations, providing inspiring HAN member systems’ examples in this area, and shared some key success factors. From David Zuckerman’s TED Talk: Perhaps most importantly, every single individual in this room needs to […]

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Putting investment dollars to work in your community

bpham · Apr 28, 2024 ·

HAN’s president and founder David Zuckerman spoke with AHA Chair and HAN member Dartmouth Health CEO and president Dr. Joanne M. Conroy on how hospitals and health systems are building healthier communities through impact investments that improve upstream determinants of health while also creating economic opportunities in the community. From the AHA Leadership Dialogue interview: David explains […]

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Investing in local communities to improve health

bpham · Jan 29, 2024 ·

HAN’s president and founder David Zuckerman talks about the power that health systems have to uplift and stabilize under-resourced communities by becoming anchors of equitable economic growth.  David delves deep into the concept of the anchor mission and how it tackles various challenges, from sustainability to workforce shortages, and touches on the pivotal role of executive-level […]

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