HAN is happy to share that Stanford Health Care has joined our network. Stanford Health Care is part of Stanford Medicine, a leading academic health system that includes the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Health, with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
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Rush University System for Health: Business Supplier Diversity
Rush University System for Health’s comprehensive anchor mission Business Supplier Diversity initiatives are featured in our latest case study. As an anchor institution that has adopted the anchor mission, Rush is focused on improving the economic vitality of Chicago’s West Side neighborhoods and has consistently worked through multiple avenues to do so including healthcare, community […]
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Impact Workforce Commitment (IWC)
Eighteen health systems across the country, some of the largest employers in their areas, have signed the “Impact Workforce Commitment” (IWC) to build healthy and strong local economies through their hiring and workforce development programs and policies. The commitment, designed in partnership with a leadership group of Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member health systems and […]
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Ochsner Health
Ochsner Health System is a not-for-profit health system based in the New Orleans metropolitan area of southeast Louisiana, United States. As of 2021 it is the largest non-profit, academic healthcare system operating in Louisiana, with 40 medical facilities across the state.
Continue ReadingFranciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System’s Faith Fund (FMOLHS): Developing a strategy to improve employees’ financial security
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System’s (FMOLHS) partnered with Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge in October 2018 to launch The Faith Fund, a micro-loan investment fund to address a key driver of health: financial stability. In 2020, FMOLHS established the COVID-19 Faith Fund Emergency Income Stabilization Loan Program that enabled employees to […]
Continue ReadingAnchor strategic planning tackles root causes of health inequities
HAN member BJC HealthCare announced a community impact investment in Wepower Capital as part of its Community Health Improvement strategic plan. Wepower Capital is “the only fund in the region that uses a revenue sharing model of investment to expand access to capital for systematically excluded entrepreneurs leading companies with strong growth potential.” BJC’s investment brings the fund’s total to $1.5 […]
Continue ReadingPartnerships for strong, healthy communities
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Henry Ford Health announced a $2.5 billion development plan over the next decade with the Detroit Pistons and Michigan State University for a walkable community mixed-use development. The facilities will include 550+ units of affordable residential housing, and commercial and retail space. The development will be anchored by a new 1 million-square-foot […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN Case Study on Futuro Health
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Kaiser Permanente’s Futuro Health program that is on track to train 10,000 allied health workers in California to meet the growing healthcare workforce need. Futuro Health also seeks to build health and wealth in communities by connecting individuals with allied healthcare careers that pay a living wage and provide opportunities for […]
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