The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) Annual Convening 2025: Boston, our largest convening yet, kicked-off with a powerful conversation exploring the historical and present-day dynamics of Massachusetts and Greater Boston—a region with a high concentration of healthcare systems. Over 350 people joined us for an energizing experience filled with connection and learning about and beyond our host city […]
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How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Economic Development
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) are dedicated to helping institutions leverage their financial resources to invest in key social drivers of health to create resilient local communities. Over the past seven years, LISC has partnered with 20 HAN members on initiatives that promote economic development and community resilience. HAN members have deployed $107 million through LISC, including $84 million in loans and $23 million in grants, to help finance affordable housing, small business lending, real estate development, local economic development strategies, and community wealth building. These efforts have impacted communities in 23 of LISC’s local markets.
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 ReadingTraining local students for good healthcare jobs
As health systems across the country face a projected shortage of nearly 100,000 health care workers by 2028, particularly among nursing assistants and other entry-level roles, early career pathways are becoming increasingly critical. With support from Bloomberg Philanthropies, several HAN member health systems are investing in programs that prepare high school students to enter the […]
Continue ReadingHAN members lead Gartner’s Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25
HAN is thrilled and proud that HAN members Intermountain Health and Cleveland Clinic retained Gartner Healthcare Supply Chain Masters status and 22 of our HAN members were included in Gartner’s Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 for 2025: AdventHealth, Stanford Health Care, Bon Secours Mercy Health, Rush University System for Health, Corewell Health, IU Health, BJC HealthCare, Sutter Health, Advocate Health, Ochsner Health, Allina […]
Continue ReadingStaying True to Mission While Navigating Financial Challenges
Rush University System for Health President and CEO Dr. Omar Lateef recently reflected on how health systems can remain anchored to their nonprofit mission while sustaining operations in a challenging financial environment. In an interview with Becker’s Hospital Review, Dr. Lateef emphasized the importance of staying grounded in a clear “true north” and using collaboration […]
Continue ReadingAnchor Mission Champions at All Places and Levels
Healthcare anchor institutions often function like keystone species. They have a disproportionate influence on the health care ecosystem and on the economic infrastructure of the communities they serve. As major employers, purchasers, and investors, health systems are uniquely positioned to expand economic opportunity in the neighborhoods surrounding their hospitals. HAN member Rush University System for […]
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Check out HAN’s Resources webpage where you can search for case studies, publications, fact sheets, and other resources by subject area. How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Economic Development details how LISC has partnered with 20 HAN members over the past seven years on initiatives that promote economic development and community resilience. Read all […]
Continue ReadingHealth systems tackling the root causes of poor health
HAN member Rush University System for Health’s President & CEO Omar Lateef and Highmark Health’s Senior Vice President, Community Affairs Kenya Boswell, HAN’s President & Founder David Zuckerman, The Commonwealth Fund’s President Joseph Betancourt, and the American Medical Association’s President’s Bobby Mukkamala, spoke about health systems building community wealth through the anchor mission framework—and how that translates into improved health outcomes and healthy longevity. From the Milken […]
Continue ReadingPreserving affordable housing for health
HAN member Kaiser Permanente partnered with Enterprise to launch the Mid-Atlantic Preservation Academy to protect affordable housing. Twelve organizations across DC, Maryland, and Virginia, will receive intensive training and $360,000 in grants, along with technical assistance and peer-learning opportunities to preserve the affordability of small- and medium-multifamily housing in the region. From the Enterprise article: “The healthcare […]
Continue ReadingInvesting in housing to build healthy communities
HAN’s President & Founder David Zuckerman spoke with Kathryn Lawler, CEO of Saint Joseph’s/Mercy Care (a part of HAN member Trinity Health), at the Georgia Health Policy Center’s 30th anniversary speaker series. They discussed how health systems can play a role building community wealth and inclusive economic development, including the McAuley Station project, a $50 million, 170 unit affordable housing complex. […]
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Check out HAN’s Resources webpage where you can search for case studies, publications, fact sheets, and other resources by subject area. How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Economic Development details how LISC has partnered with 20 HAN members over the past seven years on initiatives that promote economic development and community resilience. AHA’s Foster […]
Continue ReadingImproving health, instilling humanity & inspiring hope
HAN member Corewell Health, in collaboration with Tomato Bliss, a local and sustainable Michigan soup company, is using soup to do good! The health system serves the soup which is 100% plant-based and free from added sugars, gluten, and excess sodium on its patient menus and cafe offerings. Tomato Bliss grows heirloom tomatoes on their state-of-the-art regenerative farm, […]
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