Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members are implementing Impact Workforce strategies that connect individuals from nearby under-resourced communities to quality jobs and career pathways. This month we are celebrating the significant impact workforce development programs have in re-building our local economies, creating pathways to quality jobs, and supporting underserved communities. See also: HAN’s Impact Workforce case studies […]
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Intermountain Health Place-based Investing Case Study
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Intermountain Health’s Place Based Investing program, a strategy embedded across six states: Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. The program deploys low-cost, longer-term capital to address social drivers of health such as housing stability and financial wellness. By committing up to two percent of its […]
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A win-win for health, workers & community
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Rush University System for Health’s president and CEO Omar Lateef, DO, shares how the health system partnered with West Side United (whose members include HAN members Rush University System for Health, Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and Ascension) and other key community organizations to build Fillmore Linen Service on the west side of Chicago. Rush had been […]
Continue ReadingAnchors strengthening communities’ long-term health & economic stability
Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Intermountain Health leverages its purchasing power to support local businesses and drive inclusive economic growth. One of those businesses is Ethik, a Utah-based company that employs 26 Afghan refugee women to repurpose blue wrap from Intermountain operating rooms into handcrafted items like crossbody bags and zipper pouches. From the article: “Intermountain Health’s commitment […]
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Intermountain Health CEO Talks About the Importance of Showing Community Value
Intermountain Health President and CEO Rob Allen spoke with Becker’s Hospital Review about how nonprofit hospitals need to better define and communicate their value and what they deliver to communities. From Becker’s article: “Intermountain is enhancing transparency and reaffirming its mission to drive health equity and long-term community investment. . . . “So we gave back more […]
Continue ReadingShared Ownership, Shared Prosperity: Employee Ownership
The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true story of wealth creation – a tale of community wealth building, local wealth anchoring, and fostering lasting livelihoods for those on the economic margins. Founded through a partnership among the Cleveland Foundation, the City of Cleveland, and anchor institutions such as the Cleveland Clinic, ECL anchors wealth […]
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Hospitals and health systems and other anchor institutions from across the country are adopting an “anchor mission” to tackle the underlying economic and social determinants of community health outcomes and community well being. But how can both the what and the why of this new transformative approach be effectively communicated, inside and outside your institution?
Continue ReadingHealthcare Partnerships for Community Wealth: A Look at Worker Cooperatives and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry
Dr. Geoffrey Gusoff with HAN member UCLA Health co-authored with HAN and Gery W. Ryan a study in 2023 on healthcare partnerships with community wealth building (CWB) organizations that included worker cooperatives. Read about Evergreen Cooperative Laundry in the National Association of Development Organizations article: The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry (ECL) is a true wealth creation story – a story of community wealth building, anchoring wealth locally, and […]
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