UC Davis Health Anchor Institution Mission for Community Health
In 2020, UC Davis Health formally launched its Anchor Institution Mission (AIM) for Community Health. At the start of the AIM initiative in 2020, four geographic areas were identified as priority communities. This was later expanded to five. With further evolution of the initiative, the AIM Communities have expanded to include 10 geographic areas. The UC Davis Health AIM initiative is focusing on economically distressed communities in the Sacramento region, inclusive of the following zip codes: 95817, 95820, 95824, 95828, 95811, 95814, 95815, 95822, 95823, 95838.
As one of the leading institutions in both higher education and health care in the region, UC Davis Health is committed to leveraging its economic power and human and intellectual resources to increase the economic vitality of our surrounding nearby communities in thereby improving the health welfare and wellbeing of their residents.
The Anchor Institution Mission in Action
“A commitment to consciously apply the long-term, place-based economic power of the institution, in combination with its human and intellectual resources, to better the long-term welfare of the community in which the institution is anchored.”
— Norris, T and Howard T, Can Hospitals Heal America’s Communities, 2015
Community Engagement
Ways we support our communities.
Hiring locally
Hiring and developing local talent.
Volunteering locally
Engaging employees and community members to volunteer in local neighborhoods and at UC Davis Health.
Purchasing locally
Purchasing more goods and services from local vendors and historically underrepresented communities.
Investing locally
Investing portions of endowments into projects in vulnerable communities.
Want to know more about our anchor work?
For more information about the work we are doing with the Anchor Institution Mission, please contact Khoban Kochai, M.P.H., Assistant Director for the Anchor Institution and Culture/Climate at UC Davis Health. She can be reached by email at kbkochai@ucdavis.edu.