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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Higher Education’s Anchor Mission: A Sharpened Imperative & A Framework for Action
The paper by the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and the Coalition of Urban & Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) “rearticulates the goals of the anchor mission and positions it as a framework through which higher education institutions can more fully realize their commitment to the public good and make more equitable the local economies they support and often […]
Continue ReadingThe Anchor Mission Playbook
Written by Rush University Medical Center, with support from Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy, the Civic Consulting Alliance, and The Democracy Collaborative, this playbook offers recommendations drawn from research carried out to help Rush University Medical Center align around its Anchor Mission. These findings are intended to help other hospitals and health systems accelerate their own efforts to drive institutional alignment with community needs.
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Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with dozens of facilities statewide, IU Health has 38,000 staff and serves more than 1.2 million individuals.
Continue ReadingKansas City University
Kansas City University (KCU) has a long, rich history of osteopathic medicine. Founded in 1916, KCU is the oldest medical school in Kansas City and the largest medical school in Missouri. KCU also has programs such as the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program, an MS in biomedical science, and a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree.
Continue ReadingProgram Associate, Impact Purchasing & Place-based Investing
About the Position The program associate for impact purchasing and place-based investing (program associate) at the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) will provide organizational and programmatic support for HAN’s member network of healthcare systems across the United States. The program associate supports healthcare systems in developing equitable economic development and community wealth building strategies in the […]
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 ReadingTraining & hiring local workers for hospital
HAN member UCSF Health is building the new UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital in San Francisco, a 15-story, 880,000-square-foot, $4.3 billion facility. The health system has adopted a 30% local hiring target for construction workers for the project and will also include new and expanded job training programs.
Continue ReadingPutting community into developing CHNAs
HAN member systems SSM Health and BJC HealthCare are partnering with Mercy, St. Luke’s Hospital, and Shriners Children’s St. Louis on their Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA) to have a focus on upstream determinants of health and community involvement, which will include community surveys and a series of community listening sessions.From the St. Louis Public Radio story: Dr. Alexander Garza, the chief […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN member!
Welcome to Kansas City University (KCU) as a HAN affiliate member! KCU has a long, rich history of osteopathic medicine. Founded in 1916, KCU is the oldest medical school in Kansas City and the largest medical school in Missouri. KCU also has programs such as the Clinical Psychology Doctoral program, an MS in biomedical science, and a Doctor […]
Continue ReadingAnchor mission & human flourishing
HAN member SSM Health’s president and CEO Laura S. Kaiser writes that “it takes bold change and leadership to truly impact those things that contribute the most to health equity: the moral, social and structural determinants of health” and how the adoption of the anchor mission has paved the way for the health system to conduct equitable […]
Continue ReadingAnchors leveraging vacant land for affordable housing
June is National Home Ownership Month and the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) commends our health system members for their investments in and support for affordable housing, including ownership and permanently affordable housing strategies such as Community Land Trusts and Resident-Owned Communities. One recent example is HAN member UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh donating land to create […]
Continue ReadingEnvisioning the uplifting of communities
HAN member AtlantiCare announced VISION 2030, a 6-year plan to improve social determinants of health (including reducing food insecurity by 6 percent and unsheltered homelessness by 20 percent, while increasing life expectancies by 5 years) and expanding medical education opportunities (including YOUniversity, a clinical career program to grow talent locally that educates and trains students by providing […]
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