Healthcare Anchor Network
Join a growing national collaboration of 70+ leading healthcare systems building more inclusive and sustainable local economies
You can’t create healthy communities in America without tackling the underlying place-based drivers of health that create them—like lack of economic opportunity and access to a good paying job. Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) members are committed to making sure their institutional and operational resources are aligned with their clinical mission to improve health and well-being holistically.
The latest news from the field
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Kaiser Permanente Impact Purchasing Case Study
As one of the largest nonprofit health systems, Kaiser Permanente’s operations have tremendous economic influence. In 2023, Kaiser Permanente purchased…
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Rooted & Resilient: Highlights from the HAN Annual Convening 2025 in Boston
The Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN) Annual Convening 2025: Boston, our largest convening yet, kicked-off with a powerful conversation exploring the historical…
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How LISC & Healthcare Anchor Network Members Are Promoting Community Resiliency: Affordable Housing
Social and economic factors—including access to quality housing and jobs, and opportunities to start and grow a business—shape the health…
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Intermountain Health Place-based Investing Case Study
HAN just released a case study on HAN member Intermountain Health’s Place Based Investing program, a strategy embedded across six…
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Hospitals are affordable housing long-term investors
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…
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Part of the solution: Economic & health wellbeing
Healthcare Anchor Network members Rush University System for Health and West Side United are being recognized for their role in…
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Policy Day 2026 Speakers
Policy Day 2026 Hero Banner Healthcare Anchor Network Policy Day 2026 Advance federal housing and workforce policies that support anchor…
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With 70+ health systems (and counting) represented in the Healthcare Anchor Network (HAN), we bring together anchor institutions from across the country that together employ more than 2 million people, purchase $100 billion annually, and have $250 billion in investment assets.
Healthcare Anchor Network spotlighted in the New York Times
Featured News: When a Steady Paycheck Is Good Medicine
The New York Times traces the genesis of the Healthcare Anchor Network model for anchor institution engagement with the democratic economy from its origins in Cleveland with the Evergreen Cooperatives. It follows this thread through the creation of the Healthcare Anchor Network, which brings together hospitals and health systems in an increasingly impactful collaboration to align the nonprofit healthcare sector as a whole with what we have called the “anchor mission.”
Hospital and Health System Members of the Healthcare Anchor Network include:
Affiliate Members in the Healthcare Anchor Network include:
“An anchor mission means health systems leveraging all institutional assets, including hiring, purchasing, and investing, to build communities where all can be healthy and thrive.”
–– David Zuckerman, President & Founder of the Healthcare Anchor Network
