HAN is excited to have Nuvance Health join our network. Nuvance Health has hospitals, medical practices, and care centers located throughout New York’s Hudson Valley and Western Connecticut.
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Aspen Workforce Strategies Initiative
The Aspen Workforce Strategies Initiative identifies, evaluates, and promotes promising and successful practices and policies that help workers attain stability and mobility, including through training, education, and broader systems change.
Continue ReadingCareer Pathway Mapping Tools
This toolkit of career pathway resources sheds light on the vast variety of career opportunities in healthcare, and can help health systems enable employees to find those careers and embark on their career journeys.
Continue ReadingThe National Fund for Workforce Solutions & CareerSTAT
The National Fund for Workforce Solutions supports expanding investments in inclusive, local hiring and frontline workforce development to meet critical workforce needs. CareerSTAT is the National Fund’s healthcare initiative.
Continue ReadingNational Skills Coalition
The National Skills Coalition (NSC) is the leading national workforce development advocacy organization. NSC’s issue brief “Skills for an Inclusive Healthcare Economy” outlines health sector priorities in workforce development.
Continue ReadingBuilding the anchor mission movement
HAN Executive Director, David Zuckerman, presented testimony to the U.S. House of Representatives’ Rules Committee for its Roundtable on Ending Hunger in America: Local Innovations to Inform a National Strategy. He shared how the anchor mission framework can help to address hunger by addressing its root causes through good jobs with training and career ladders, supporting local and minority, women, […]
Continue ReadingInvesting in affordable housing to improve health
HAN member Kaiser Permanente’s impact investments in affordable housing continues with project in New Mexico and California. In California, Kaiser Permanente has committed $50 million to the SDS Supportive Housing Fund, an innovative real estate impact fund that is seeking to build up to 1,800 financially sustainable permanent supportive housing (PSH) units for people experiencing homelessness in […]
Continue ReadingHealth anchors supporting businesses in tough times
HAN members Bon Secours Mercy Health, CommonSpirit Health, and Providence St. Joseph Health are spotlighted by Catholic Health World for adopting the HAN Impact Purchasing Commitment (IPC). Pictured is Homeboy Industries, which CommonSpirit Health’s California Hospital Medical Center in Los Angeles contracted with for electronics recycling. From the article: Those that have signed on to the Impact Purchasing Commitment have agreed […]
Continue ReadingInvesting in Affordable Housing to Improve Health
HAN member Intermountain Healthcare announced a new partnership with Rocky Mountain Homes Fund to provide affordable, stable housing options in Weber County in Utah. The new project addresses the SDOH in underserved communities by removing barriers to affordable home ownership such as the lack of down payments and higher mortgage interest rates for those without good credit. […]
Continue ReadingNew Milwaukee Anchor Collaborative Commits to Local Inclusive Hiring & Procurement
HAN members Advocate Aurora Health, Ascension Wisconsin, and Froedtert Health and our Anchor Learning Network members the Medical College of Wisconsin and Marquette University, along with Children’s Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, recently launched the Milwaukee Anchor Collaborative. The Eds & Meds anchors pledged to increase their hiring and spending in eight of the city’s disadvantaged neighborhoods. JobsWork MKE will serve as the “boots […]
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