The American Medical Association (AMA) is a key partner to West Side United (WSU), an anchor collaborative on Chicago’s west side whose members include Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members Rush University Medical Center, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Ascension. AMA has provided $5 million to WSU’s multi-pronged social impact investing approach. From the AMA […]
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Anchor mission & community leadership
HAN member UMass Memorial Health’s Doug Brown, President of Community Hospitals and Chief Administrative Officer, shares how the health system reimagined its role in the community by leveraging its economic and intellectual power as an anchor organization and adopting the anchor mission to lift up the community.
Continue ReadingInvesting in community businesses for long-term impacts
HAN member Bon Secours Mercy Health is partnering with Springfield Small Business Development Center (SBDC) in Ohio to invest $1 million towards a new low-interest loan program for small and minority-owned businesses to build community wealth and improve the health of residents. From the Springfield News-Sun article:Adam Groshans, president of Mercy Health, said the hospital […]
Continue ReadingAnchor collaborative wins innovation award
HAN members BJC Healthcare and SSM Health are members of the St. Louis Anchor Action Network (STLAAN), which won the St. Louis Business Journal’s Innovation in Philanthropy Award. The award celebrates “local partnerships for going above and beyond standard philanthropic practices in new and creative ways.”
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Community health and well-being are impacted by each and every community initiative—planning, development, housing, education, transportation, and more—even when the work is not implicitly “health related”. This NEW website enables researching existing Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) from around the U.S., so policymakers and community organizers can maximize resources, build on others’ work, and move more […]
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HAN welcomes Methodist Healthcare Ministries, Inc. as an affiliate member! A strategic goal of the not-for-profit organization is to contribute to the overall health and well-being of communities through long-term and sustainable collaboration and developing Communities of Solution that foster equitable access and opportunity for all.
Continue ReadingClosing the “death gap” through wealth building
The anchor mission and community wealth building efforts of Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members Rush University System for Health, BJC HealthCare and Trinity Health are spotlighted in a STAT article. The article details Rush’s anchor mission journey, including the founding of West Side United (WSU), as well as BJC HealthCare’s and Mercy Health’s (a part […]
Continue ReadingNew HAN case study on Rush’s Impact Purchasing strategies
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Rush University System for Health’s Impact Purchasing program that covers its key strategies, program design and impact, and lessons learned. From the HAN Rush case study: Ultimately, Rush is able to align their procurement efforts with their institutional operations because they approach this work “as a strategic initiative, […]
Continue ReadingHAN’s Policy Day 2023
HAN’s 5th annual Policy Day was held on Capitol Hill and focused on affordable housing and workforce development. We were joined by a bipartisan group of congressional members who spoke about the importance of affordable and healthy housing and workforce programs for unemployed and underemployed individuals. Liz Osborn with Enterprise Community Partners, spoke about the need […]
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The Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR) article discusses the powerful effects of people leading together and includes HAN as an example of an entity that creates the conditions for change through health systems leading together and committing to shared and deeply held goals.
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