HAN member Maimonides Medical Center helped to found Brooklyn Communities Collaborative (BCC), a nonprofit that convenes community and institutional partners to strengthen health, wealth, and leadership in Brooklyn communities. BCC just launched a Health Worker Training Program for formerly incarcerated Brooklynites. From the BK Reader article: “Community health workers are trusted advocates for health and wellbeing in their own communities,” […]
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Eds & meds training students for good jobs
HAN members Ascension, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Memorial Hermann Health System along with several other health systems have received funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies to prepare high school students to start health care jobs upon graduation. The health systems will work with education partners to train students for careers in nursing, emergency medicine, lab science, medical imaging, and surgery. From the […]
Continue ReadingHAN case study on Baystate Health’s Impact Workforce strategies
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Baystate Health’s Impact Workforce program that focuses on a number of zip codes and census tracts in the Springfield, MA area with some of the highest poverty in the country and a high concentration of employees earning the lowest wages. The formalized inclusive, local hiring strategy incorporates new, intentional, […]
Continue ReadingHow & why to develop an Anchor Mission
NEJM Catalyst held a webinar on How Anchor Institutions Improve Patient, Community, and Workforce Health, which featured executive leadership from several HAN member systems: The sessions covered: Engaging With the Community, Engaging the Health Care Workforce, and Engaging Patients.
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HAN member UC Davis Health’s Using Social Determinants to Diversify the Health Care Workforce Playbook describes how the health system initiated an anchor institution strategy and utilized social determinants, rather than race and ethnicity categories, to enhance diversity in its workforce.
Continue ReadingBaystate Health Workforce Development
In our latest case study we feature Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) member Baystate Health, a nonprofit, integrated health system serving over 800,000 people across western New England. Based in Springfield, Massachusetts, it is the largest healthcare organization in western Massachusetts, with a workforce of over 13,000 employees across its four hospitals.
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MultiCare
New HAN member
A big welcome to MultiCare, the largest, community-based, locally governed health system in the state of Washington. The health system has 12 hospitals and more than 300 primary, urgent, pediatric, and specialty care locations across Washington, Idaho, and Oregon.
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