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Welcome UCI Health to the HAN membership! The health system is the clinical enterprise of the University of California, Irvine and has over 8,000 employees. The UCI Medical Center is a 459-bed acute care hospital. UCI Health provides over 1 million outpatient visits annually.

HAN member Bon Secours Mercy Health’s impact workforce program’s career pathways and education and skills initiatives help lead to a diverse workforce and can improve health equity.  From the Forbes article: “Providing our employees opportunities to learn, grow and advance within the health system has enhanced our culture of belonging and boosted retention rates,” says Stapleton, Chief Diversity […]

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’s participatory action research provides insights from Black entrepreneurs and business owners on their successes, challenges, and potential to become healthcare suppliers and contractors. Maimonides Health and One Brooklyn […]

As part of HAN member Boston Medical Center’s (BMC) Clean Power Prescription program, BMC will use energy credits generated from a new solar array on its administrative building to help reduce patients’ electric bills. BMC was able to make this happen through the federal Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which offers subsidies for more than half the cost of installation of […]

October is National Employee Ownership Month, which provides an opportunity to get the word out about the benefits of employee ownership to employees, companies, local communities, and the nation. From The Hill Op-Ed: Employee ownership also benefits communities. Led by Industrial Commons, communities such as Morganton, N.C., are using employee ownership as a strategy to revitalize industry and economic […]

HAN member Kaiser Permanente announced new work with the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) to build and expand the evidence base of solutions to protect against climate change’s impacts on health and health equity, and to inform future investments in climate research, strategies, and policies. See also: Practice Greenhealth’s Guide details how health systems can utilize IRA incentives to advance […]

Thanks to our health system members and convening co-sponsors for making the Healthcare Anchor Network 2023 Annual Convening: Los Angeles full of learning and positive energy! HAN member health systems convened to fully activate their organization’s unique platform as a leading local institution to meaningfully address economic and racial inequities in community conditions that create poor health. We celebrated […]

We’re happy to share that NorthShore – Edward-Elmhurst Health has joined HAN! The health system is the third largest healthcare delivery system in Illinois and includes 9 hospitals, 25,000 team members, and more than 6,000 physicians, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties.