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
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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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?
Continue ReadingHealthcare Partnerships for Community Wealth: A Look at Worker Cooperatives and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry
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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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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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.
Continue ReadingAnchor Mission Playbook: New Learnings & Findings in Anchor Mission Execution
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 […]
Continue ReadingInsights from Experts in the Field of Community Investing
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 […]
Continue ReadingFrom transactions to transformation: Building healthier communities through Impact Purchasing
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 […]
Continue ReadingActivating place-based partnerships for equitable economic development: A playbook for anchor collaboratives
This playbook details how groups of anchor institutions are building effective place-based partnerships together with community partners to improve individual and family well-being and build equitable local economies.
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