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The Healthcare Anchor Network just released Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives, which captures a comprehensive set of learnings to date from this growing body of work on anchor collaborative’s collective strategies, including key success factors that need to be present for an anchor collaborative to get started, build […]

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The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) and HAN member systems Kaiser Permanente, Boston Medical Center, and Trinity Health are covered in the New York Times article on how health systems are increasingly investing in affordable housing—and are seeing the benefits with improved community health.  From the New York Times article: Health systems are, however, not acting as banks, said David Zuckerman, Healthcare Anchor Network’s […]

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Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member systems BJC Healthcare and SSM Health in St. Louis, MO and anchor collaborative West Side United in Chicago, IL have helped to bring place-based economic development and jobs to their cities.  BJC Healthcare and SSM Health formed a joint venture, St. Louis Healthcare Support Services, LLC , to build and operate a regional […]

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HAN’s president and founder David Zuckerman spoke with AHA Chair and HAN member Dartmouth Health CEO and president Dr. Joanne M. Conroy on how hospitals and health systems are building healthier communities through impact investments that improve upstream determinants of health while also creating economic opportunities in the community. From the AHA Leadership Dialogue interview: David explains […]

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HAN’s Project Manager for Workforce & Community Engagement Initiatives Lauren Worth authored Hiring Untapped Talent: ‘Anchor’ Organizations Share Ways to Diversify, Localize Workforce about health systems building healthy and equitable local economies through their hiring and workforce development programs and policies.  The article also covers the HAN Impact Workforce Commitment’s core goal of reaching at least 10% of new hires annually by […]

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HAN partner Health Care Without Harm urges health systems to take climate action to protect health and health care delivery. The health care sector, as with all industries, must halve their emissions by 2030 on the road to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. One way to achieve this is to evaluate their financial investments and examine […]

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Please join us for the  2024 Anchor Economy Conference in Philadelphia on on May 15–16, 2024. Cohosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Healthcare Anchor Network, this event brings together healthcare and higher education institution leaders, community development practitioners, researchers, experts, and others to share and discuss anchor strategies and best practices, as well […]

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HAN’s Policy Day 2024 will be held on May 1, 2024 in person at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. and virtually. Please view the Agenda and Register for the event. HAN supports federal workforce development and affordable housing programs to help create the healthy community conditions needed to keep people well, including after they return home from the hospital. Please […]

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HAN welcomes University Health to the network! University Health is the only locally owned and operated health system in San Antonio and Bexar County in Texas. The system has 10,000 employees and includes University Hospital, which serves as the region’s only Level I trauma center for both adults and children, and the Women’s & Children’s Hospital. There is […]

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