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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]