Across the country, Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members are shifting their resources for community giving to align with their anchor mission strategies and support community wealth building. This edition of our newsletter highlights examples of HAN members going upstream with their community giving to better address root cause issues and strengthen their neighborhoods. HAN is curious to know: how is your organization rethinking its role as a conduit for philanthropic dollars or changing your community giving strategy to address root causes? Share your examples with us by completing the survey below, or by emailing HAN's lead on Leveraging Anchor Philanthropy, Kate Gallagher, MPH. See how anchor philanthropy is a unique kind of strategic grantmaking. #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth #racialequity #economicjustice Read our latest newsletter! https://lnkd.in/ekWahzxh Share your community giving examples: https://ow.ly/6R2b50T8TkE
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Hospitals and Health Care
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Health Systems Collaborating to Build Inclusive, Local Economies
About us
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) is a nationally recognized collaboration of more than 65+ health systems leveraging their institutional assets more intentionally to improve health and well-being by addressing economic and racial inequities in the communities they serve. HAN works to achieve a critical mass of health systems adopting the anchor mission, a proactive commitment to leverage their economic, political, and human capital in partnership with community to drive equitable, local economic impact. Through defining the healthcare leadership standard, promoting industry collaboration, incubating and scaling anchor strategies, and leading innovations in implementation, HAN strives to build a healthcare and anchor institution movement focused on addressing economic and racial inequities in community conditions that create poor health.
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https://healthcareanchor.network/
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Employees at Healthcare Anchor Network
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Carol Gaudino
Purpose-Driven Strategist | Connector | Thought Partner | Collaborator | Project Manager
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Justin Reynolds
Senior Manager, Impact Measurement | The Healthcare Anchor Network
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Lauren Worth
Senior Manager, Workforce & Community Engagement Initiatives, Healthcare Anchor Network
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Sarah Chartier, MBA, PMP
A conduit for sustainable business solutions
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West Side United (WSU) is an anchor collaborative on Chicago's west side whose members include HAN members Rush University Medical Center, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago and Ascension WSU members discussed the anchor collaborative's strategies for the AMA Prioritizing Equity Series. Dr. David Ansell, Rush University Medical Center: Structural racism, economic disinvestment, these are historical trends, but they're perpetuated in the day-to-day, and we had been bystander to it and so we had accountability. That launched our anchor mission. We decided we become an anchor institution to hire locally, purchase locally, invest locally, and volunteer locally. That led us to say, "Well, we can't do it alone. Let's get the other hospitals in and the community in." And that led to West Side United. Ayesha Jaco, West Side United: Once Rush began to reorganize itself and really commit to health equity within its doors as well as bring along peer institutions, the table that was set that formed West Side United was all about galvanizing the collective impact of the six health care systems in our network that really have the West Side as its backyard to some degree. So in doing that, that really set an expectation for there to be early wins within the anchor mission space in a collaborative way, where you had historical competitors coming together to really take on collective targets around hiring, procurement. As we're talking about today, social impact investing. Fillmore Linen Service just opened in North Lawndale on the west side of Chicago and HAN members Rush University Medical Center and Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago are the first customers. The local healthcare laundry linen business is part of a larger job creation and West Side neighborhood community wealth building initiative. The project was led by West Side United. From the Chicago Sun-Times article: Fillmore Center aims to create more than 250 jobs and generate more than $9 million in annual income for North Lawndale’s economy. Seven years after renovations are completed, the building will be placed into a community benefit trust that allows residents to share and manage profits from the building — making it one of the few examples in the country. #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth #racialequity #economicjustice
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We’re thrilled to be featured in Modern Healthcare’s latest article on the transformative impact of hospitals investing in affordable housing! 🏥🏠 As HAN President David Zuckerman said in the article, “Health systems are leveraging their long-term financial reserves to invest in housing services, while others have leased or given land to affordable housing developers, At HAN, we believe that access to safe, affordable housing is crucial for improving health outcomes. Our members’ commitment to this cause is making a real difference—helping to reduce emergency department visits and creating healthier communities. Check out the article to learn more about our efforts and the growing movement within healthcare to address social determinants of health. 👉 https://ow.ly/Ag1950T3uya #AffordableHousing #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #CommunityHealth #HealthcareInnovation #ModernHealthcare #anchormission
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Kudos to Healthcare Anchor Network members, Boston Medical Center (BMC) & NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, for their unwavering commitment to fostering meaningful relationships and developing impactful community partnerships! Your efforts serve as an inspiration for others to follow.
New Chair File: Hospitals Forge Strong Community Partnerships to Advance Health: https://ow.ly/3wch50SWg0n #AHAToday
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HAN member systems Corewell Health and Henry Ford Health joined the Detroit Chamber of Commerce to discuss how businesses are leading the effort to connect workforce shortage challenges with the half a million working-age adults in the Detroit Region who are disconnected from the workforce. From the Detroit Regional Chamber article: Regardless of the approach, all three panelists had a similar vision for what the future will look like once the talent crisis is addressed with a focus on the health care system. “[It will be a place where] we have deeper relationships with pipelining for those that have criminal convictions … that require accommodations … who are veterans. Where we have solid pipelining within the careers, within health care,” [Jan] Harrington-Davis [Corewell Health's Senior VP of Talent Attraction] said. “Also, that our communities are vibrant and thriving, and Michigan is the best place to come live and work, and we have the ability to recruit people from outside of Michigan into Michigan to live within our communities. At the same step, we have also targeted that half a million … and we’ve engaged them into health care, and we’ve been able sell to them that this is a great place to work … and most of all, on top of that, that we have healthier communities.” #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth #racialequity #economicjustice #wkdev #workforcedevelopment Read the Detroit Regional Chamber story: https://ow.ly/IhjR50SX7nu
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While the anchor mission has historically focused on the role of individual institutions in equitable economic development, anchor institutions have recognized that a deeper commitment to collaboration is required to move the needle on systemic inequities, advance equitable economic development, and support wealth building within the low-income and communities of color they serve. Our Anchor Collaborative Spotlight this week is Tacoma Anchor Network (TAN), which is a collaborative of place-based institutions, including HAN member MultiCare Health System, who are collectively prioritizing better outcomes for Tacoma residents by improving local hiring, buying, and investment opportunities under the leadership of Danny Fisher-Bruns, MBA, Doug Baxter-Jenkins, and Chelsea Talbert. #ImpactInvesting #impactinvestment #purchasing #MWBE #buylocal #wkdev #workforcedevelopment Their core anchor activities include: shifting operational dollars and practices, coordinating investments, collective policy advocacy, and information sharing and mutual support. #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth #racialequity #economicjustice Read more about Tacoma and other anchor collaboratives in HAN’s latest publication: https://ow.ly/HigR50STZRM
Activating Place-Based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development
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President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia spoke at the Anchor Economy event hosted by the agency and HAN. HAN's Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development: A Playbook for Anchor Collaboratives was released at the event. https://ow.ly/4ByY50STafp Hospital and health system board members can be transformative leaders through a demonstrated commitment to health equity and diversity. This report contains case studies of executives and board members of organizations that are prioritizing diversity and health equity and inclusion, including interviews with HAN members UMass Memorial Health and Corewell Health. #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth #racial equity #economicjustice https://ow.ly/QXaf50STafq
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HAN member Boston Medical Center (BMC) continues to lead in #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth
There's still time to join us on Martha's Vineyard for an engaging panel discussion on economic mobility in the Black community. We will dig into the transformative power of economic advancement as a catalyst for health equity by exploring access to home ownership and recognizing the historical context of redlining and its lasting impact on Black families. Sign up now to join us at Union Chapel today: https://bit.ly/4dbGSIF
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HAN welcomes Indiana University Health to our network! Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, with dozens of facilities statewide, IU Health has 38,000 staff and serves more than 1.2 million individuals.
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Thank you Frank Nguyen, MBA!
🌐 Proud to share our latest resource, Activating Place-based Partnerships for Equitable Economic Development! 📖 Explore strategies and structures for effective partnerships, assess your progress, and learn from real-world case studies. Join us on the journey to impact! Read it here! https://lnkd.in/eGZXzN2V #communitypartnerships #SDoH #healthequity #AnchorMission #CommunityWealth.
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