Boston Ujima Project is a community controlled engine for economic revitalization directed by those most marginalized in the current system, working intentionally to channel impact investing to community-owned businesses—and to connect those businesses to the anchor procurement opportunities that can help them thrive.
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Applying a long-term strategy to harness UCSF’s collective power promote health equity
A new report, Advancing Health Equity in San Francisco, represents the first step in implementing a long-term strategy to harnessing HAN member University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) economic power to promote health equity in San Francisco. UCSF is committing to an expanded and deepened anchor mission, and aims to capitalize on its position as the second largest employer in the city and its economic impact as a $7 billion enterprise.
Continue ReadingEvergreen Cooperative Laundry’s Employee Owner Tymika Thomas speaks at SDOH Symposium
The Healthcare Anchor Network collaborated with Modern Healthcare on a successful conference focused on the SDOH and anchor mission work. The symposium was attended by 300 healthcare sector executives, leaders and providers, who were interested in learning more about how hospitals and health systems can adopt anchor mission work.
Continue ReadingReport: “Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges With Place-Based Partnerships & Anchor Institutions”
This new report by Justine Porter, Danny Fisher-Bruns and Bich Ha Pham of The Democracy Collaborative, discusses the work of anchor institutions (including several HAN members) and partner organizations that have joined to form place-based networks, or anchor collaboratives, to develop, implement, and support shared goals and initiatives that advance equitable and inclusive economic development strategies.
Continue ReadingUMassMemorial Anchor Mission: reallocating resources, realigning institutional policy, and changing the organization’s culture
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s “Anchoring Health beyond Clinical Care: UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission Project” showcases how HAN and its health systems supported UMass Memorial Health Care’s Anchor Mission journey.
Continue ReadingThe Practical Playbook II is the first resource to thoroughly lay out what works (and what doesn’t) when collaborating for change on health issues.
The Playbook includes a chapter written by HAN members Michellene Davis with RWJBarnabas Health and David Ansell with Rush University Medical Center, along with David Zuckerman with The Democracy Collaborative/HAN, titled Rethinking the Mission of Health Systems: Improving Community Health as Anchor Institutions.
Continue ReadingAnchor Collaboratives: Building bridges with place-based partnerships and anchor institutions
Healthcare Anchor Network’s director of communication and policy Bich Ha Pham co-authored the report Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions, which discusses the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address social and economic disparities and to revitalize local communities. The report focuses on the work […]
Continue ReadingCHOP’s CAPP+ Campaign
Starting this year HAN member Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), in partnership with the Philadelphia Housing Development Corp., initiated a new campaign called CAPP+ which is a pilot program to conduct asthma-trigger removal in the homes of 10 CAPP patients.
Continue ReadingAdvancing the Anchor Mission of Healthcare
In December 2016, leaders from 40 health systems gathered in Washington, DC to explore the potential to more fully harness their economic power to inclusively and sustainably benefit the long-term well-being of American communities. This report summarizes the events of the convening and presents the health systems’ collective vision of the Healthcare Anchor Network.
Continue ReadingSound the Alarm: Our Housing Crisis Is a Health Crisis
Kaiser Permanente’s Dr. Bechara Choucair writes about the health system’s participation in the Healthcare Anchor Network-sponsored Housing for Health Congressional briefing to raise awareness among federal lawmakers and to advocate for actionable policy solutions.
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