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HAN President David Zuckerman will be discussing healthcare’s unique role as an anchor in achieving health equity at the US News & World Report Webinar Achieving Health Equity: Tackling the Medical Community’s Greatest Care Challenge on Jun 23, 2022, 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET.

Brooklyn Communities Collaborative, which HAN member Maimonides Medical Center is a member of, released Building Health, Wealth, and Equity in Brooklyn, which analyzed hospital procurement data to advance efforts to localize and diversify hospital spending.

The Playbook is an action-oriented guide designed for healthcare organizations who want to pursue partnerships with local community and economic development and other sectors in rural areas with case studies on HAN members Dartmouth Health, ProMedica, and Saint Alphonsus Health (Trinity Health).

HAN member Dartmouth Health is joining 7 other local and mission-driven employers to invest in the new Upper Valley Loan Fund to help finance the construction of 260 mostly below-market rate apartment units in northern New England. The $10 million fund will help address the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the rural region which especially impact […]

Gartner’s Healthcare Supply Chain Top 25 is adding an environmental, social and governance (ESG) quantitative metric to its ranking for the first time. The new ESG metric will be based upon Healthcare Anchor Network membership, participation, and active engagement. The metric will be weighted at 5% of the valuation for each health system. From the Gartner […]

HAN member Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Project Equity and Obran Cooperative to educate Kaiser’s supply chain vendors about, and support their transitioning to, an employee ownership model. Hawaii-based Courier Corporation, a transportation and delivery company with 153 employees, is the first company making the switch. This project represents an important innovation in how health systems can leverage their influence through their […]

HAN member Intermountain Healthcare and BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, announced a collaboration on a new program to help create jobs in Salt Lake City that provide a living wage, retirement options, comprehensive health benefits, and career development. This collaboration between Intermountain and BD stems from HAN’s Impact Purchasing Commitment, as Intermountain […]

HAN is very happy to have AtlantiCare join us! AtlantiCare is an integrated healthcare system based in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, whose more than 6,000 staff, providers and volunteers serve the community in more than 100 locations in Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May and Ocean counties of southern New Jersey. 

HAN held a successful Policy Day on April 27th focusing on federal affordable housing programs: low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC), HOME program, and housing vouchers, as well as workforce development programs: Health Profession Opportunity Grant (HPOG) and JOBS Act. We were thrilled to have 51 HAN health systems participate in the briefing, which represents 800 hospitals […]

HAN members CommonSpirit Health, Kaiser Permanente, Providence, Trinity Health, and UC Davis Health along with Sutter Health are participating in a three-year pilot to test how best to address the health risks that are connected to homelessness. The article details Kaiser Permanente’s and CommonSpirit Health’s strategies in this area. From the article: Two of the founding members of the network, Kaiser […]