This infographic shows how hospitals, health systems and other anchor institutions can improve community health and build community wealth through their everyday hiring and training practices.
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The Procurement Sweet Spot
This infographic shows how hospitals, health systems and other anchor institutions can leverage their everyday building and buying to improve community health and build community wealth.
Continue ReadingThe Health Sector and the Healthcare Anchor Network Employer Maps
These maps were created to show the central role of hospitals and health systems as significant employers in their local economies.
Continue ReadingHospitals Building Healthier Communities: Embracing the Anchor Mission
MetroHealth is Building the Local Economy by Supporting Young People
HAN member MetroHealth created the country’s first high school in a hospital, Lincoln-West School of Science and Health, three years ago in Cleveland. In addition to offering regular high school courses, students learn about the health care sector and how to become nurses and doctors. The students come from low income families, and one third of them speak English as a second language.
Continue ReadingHAN Members are Investing in Communities and the Future Generation
Bon Secours Mercy Health was one of 14 Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members that announced commitments of over $700 million in impact investing in November 2019. This Reuters article covers the health system’s investment partnership with Maggie Walker Community Land Trust to build permanently affordable homes in Richmond, Virginia—and the lives this investment has impacted.
Continue ReadingWhy These Hospitals Have Promised $700 Million for Affordable Housing and More
As the links between physical health and community wealth and vitality become clearer all the time, fourteen regional and national health systems are coming together to commit at least $700 million to investments in affordable housing and economic development in the cities where they’re located. “I think hospitals and health systems are really well poised […]
Continue Reading‘Good neighbors’? U.S. hospitals invest in land, housing to treat crisis
This month, Bon Secours was one of 14 healthcare systems across the United States that committed to over $700 million in “place-based” investments, with a primary goal being the development of affordable housing. They are all part of a group called the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN), a project of the Washington-based research group Democracy Collaborative.“It […]
Continue ReadingHealth System Leaders Announce over $700 Million in Investments to Address Health, Housing & Economic Inequalities through Community Wealth Building
Fourteen hospitals and health systems, including national health systems and regional systems, that are the largest private sector employers in California, Utah, and Wisconsin, along with others that are also among the top 20 largest employers in their states, announced a commitment of over $700 million for place-based investing to create strong and healthy communities.
Continue ReadingPlace-based Investing Commitment
In signing the Healthcare Anchor Network’s (HAN) Place-based Investing Commitment, health systems commit to redirecting a portion of their investable assets toward impact investments that are place-based and address community conditions that create racial, economic and environmental disparities. The goal of these investments is to improve community health and well-being, particularly for those impacted by […]
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