About the Position The Project Manager for Impact Purchasing at the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) will be in charge of planning, and managing HAN’s impact purchasing workstream, including project, partnerships and other activities. This is a remote, full-time exempt position, Collective Bargaining Unit, Classification 6 reporting directly to the HAN President intended to start September […]
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HAN Convening 2025: Boston Registration Now Open!
We’re excited to announce that registration is now open for the HAN Convening 2025, taking place in Boston! From October 8-10, HAN members and invited partners will be part of three dynamic days of connection, learning, and collaboration designed to move anchor mission strategies from vision to action. This event brings together mission-aligned health systems and partners to […]
Continue ReadingPartnership & action to address inequities in place
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is excited to share Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which contains a comprehensive set of learnings to date from anchor collaboratives nationwide about their collective strategies, and provides key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build momentum, and […]
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 […]
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Continue ReadingIntermountain Health CEO Talks About the Importance of Showing Community Value
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 […]
Continue ReadingShared 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 […]
Continue ReadingAnchor Mission Communications Toolkit
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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HAN is happy to share that Keck Medicine of USC has joined the network! Keck Medicine is the University of Southern California’s medical enterprise, one of only two university-based medical systems in the Los Angeles area. The health system has more than 7,000 employees and includes Keck Hospital of USC, USC Norris Cancer Hospital, USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, USC Arcadia […]
Continue ReadingHAN Hosts Policy Day on the Hill with Lawmakers and Anchor Institutions
HAN’s 7th annual Policy Day was held on Capitol Hill and focused on affordable housing and workforce development. We were joined by a bipartisan group of congressional members who spoke about the importance of affordable and healthy housing and quality skills training programs. We were fortunate to be joined by congressional leaders, national experts in affordable […]
Continue ReadingLeveraging Anchor Resources for Long-term wellbeing.
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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