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 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 […]
Continue ReadingSupport Federal Workforce Programs
HAN member health systems are among the largest employers in their regions and rely on a skilled workforce to meet growing health care needs. Continued federal investment in job training, placement, and worker supports is critical to addressing workforce shortages. Programs such as those authorized under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) provide essential […]
Continue ReadingFoodways to Health: Food is Medicine, climate, and community
HAN member University of California, Davis Health’s Foodways to Health initiative aims to “increase access to fresh produce and medically tailored meals while promoting climate-friendly food production practices and community engagement.” In addition to expanding food access and food literacy, the program focuses on several key goals. These include promoting environmentally sound and transparent food […]
Continue ReadingImproving health outcomes through local food systems
World Food Day 2025 focused on the theme “Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future,” emphasizing collaboration among governments, organizations, and communities to build a sustainable and food-secure future. Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members marked the occasion by purchasing from local farmers, small businesses, and regional food systems that promote access to […]
Continue ReadingApprenticeships: Providing resources to succeed
HAN members Corewell Health, Trinity Health, and University of Michigan Health are expanding access to health care careers through the Medical Assistant Registered Apprenticeship Program (MARAP), a year-long, tuition-free training program that combines classroom learning with paid, hands-on experience. Students complete coursework through Muskegon Community College or Grand Rapids Community College while gaining clinical experience […]
Continue ReadingProtected: HAN 2025 Convening Presentations
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Continue ReadingHealth anchors helping students overcome education barriers
HAN member SSM Health is partnering with Chamberlain University to launch the Aspiring Nurse Program, designed to strengthen the nursing career pathways and expand access to education. The program provides tuition support, enhances clinical readiness, and creates a direct track to employment across SSM Health’s care sites in Missouri, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Wisconsin. As reported […]
Continue ReadingCreating pathways to high-wage, in-demand healthcare careers
HAN member Memorial Hermann Health is launching the Health Education and Learning (HEAL) High School in collaboration with the Aldine Independent School District as an investment in the future of healthcare. The program, which is now in its second year, aims to prepare students for high-paying, in-demand healthcare jobs while they finish high school. The […]
Continue ReadingEmployees as Impactful Storytellers
HAN members Advocate Health, CommonSpirit Health, and UMass Memorial Health have enlisted their staff members to tell the stories about their Impact Workforce programs in these powerful videos. The narratives are helping to recruit trainees and inspire community members, especially those facing similar workforce barriers. Hear from employees themselves:
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