HAN is thrilled to be able to provide grant funding and technical assistance to support seven of its members over a 2-year period to implement impact workforce strategies, due the generous support of the Ballmer Group. The WorkAdvance model is a nationally recognized, research-validated, results-driven workforce development approach that creates intentional career pathways for residents […]
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Register for the HAN Convening 2026: Denver
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the HAN Annual Convening 2026, taking place in Denver! From October 14-16, HAN members and invited partners will be part of three dynamic days of strengthening our connections, showcasing our collective impact, and advancing our shared work across the network. In alignment with this year’s theme — Collective Strength. […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingKaiser Permanente Impact Purchasing Case Study
As one of the largest nonprofit health systems, Kaiser Permanente’s operations have tremendous economic influence. In 2023, Kaiser Permanente purchased over $22.2 billion in goods and services. An economic impact study estimates that these procurement dollars supported over 176,000 jobs, generated $11.8 billion in income, and contributed $3.4 billion in federal and state taxes. “If […]
Continue ReadingHow LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Affordable Housing
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.
Continue ReadingIntermountain Health Place-based Investing Case Study
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 […]
Continue ReadingHospitals are affordable housing long-term investors
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and HAN member systems Kaiser Permanente, Boston Medical Center, and Trinity Health are covered in the New York Times article on how health systems are increasingly investing in affordable housing—and are seeing the benefits with improved community health. From the New York Times article: Health systems are, however, not acting as banks, said David Zuckerman, Healthcare Anchor Network’s […]
Continue ReadingHawaii Pacific Health and Sustainable Local Food Systems
Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) supports food hubs that work with local farmers and connect local food production to local consumers, in order to respond to food insecurity and develop healthy and sustainable food systems.
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 ReadingHawaiʻi Pacific Health’s Place-based Investing for affordable housing
Hawaiʻi Pacific Health is interviewed about its commitment to support affordable home ownership with partner Hawaiʻi Community Lending. The interview details the importance of community lending as a key health system tool for expanding community health impact and leveraging resources from other partners.HAN will soon release a case study on Hawaiʻi Pacific Health’s leadership and commitment to allocate […]
Continue ReadingCreating impact through HAN’s policy advocacy for affordable housing
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) celebrates the enactment of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act—landmark bipartisan legislation that addresses the nation’s deepening housing and affordability crisis. Stable, affordable housing is foundational to health at every stage of life, and health systems are uniquely positioned to understand that connection: research consistently shows that healthcare costs decline […]
Continue ReadingRegenerative Capital: Hawaii Pacific Health and Feed the Hunger Fund
Hawaii Pacific Health (HPH) committed $1.5 million in loans through its Place-Based Investment (PBI) Fund, and an additional $25,000 in Community Benefits funding to Feed the Hunger Fund (FTHF). Supporting local food systems, building local farmer wealth, and increasing food security is a specific focus of HPH’s investing strategy.
Continue ReadingBoston Medical Center & Nubian Market
Wealth to Health: Nubian Markets BMC is proud to be part of Nubian Markets, a BIPOC-owned venture to create a local grocery store offering fresh foods, prepared meals, and a café right in the heart of Roxbury’s Nubian Square. The market is part of BMC’s commitment to community health and wealth-building.
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 ReadingUniting health care & agriculture for community
HAN member RWJBarnabas Health just launched ‘Harvest’ – a first-of-its-kind farm to community center in Newark, NJ to combat food insecurity, promote nutrition education, and empower local businesses. The health system is partnering with Newark-based farm-to-city social enterprise Urban Agriculture Cooperative (UAC) to improve overall health outcomes. This innovative initiative brings together the power of health care, agriculture, education, and economic development […]
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