Episode Description
Your Health System CXO podcast host Jasmaine McClain & David Zuckerman, president and founder of the Healthcare Anchor Network, discuss the transformative potential of health systems as anchor institutions in addressing community disinvestment and economic insecurity. Together they emphasizes the importance of leveraging hiring, purchasing, and investing practices to create equitable local economies.
Key Takeaways
1.Health systems can leverage their resources to address economic inequities.
2.The Healthcare Anchor Network aims to create racially equitable local economies.
3. Impact investing can yield both financial and social returns.
4. Aligning health system goals with community needs can enhance impact.
The full transcript of our conversation is also available to read. Show the Transcript.
About Our Host
Jasmaine McClain, Executive Director, Health Equity Alliance
Jasmaine will guide Health Equity Officers through discussions on equity in plain language and the structural challenges in system transformation.