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Just Health: Case Studies of Worker Cooperatives in Health and Care Sectors

Adria Scharf, Adrienne Eaton, Camille Kerr, Minsun Ji, Sanjay Pinto | January, 2023

How we structure ownership and work in healthcare matters. As a society, we underpay and under-support—under-care-for—the very workers we rely on to provide health and care services to others. The COVID-19 pandemic briefly spotlighted this fact as health workers braved risks to care for the vulnerable. The worst of that crisis has passed—but the extractive … Read More

Evergreen Cooperative Laundry and Cleveland Clinic

Adria Scharf | December, 2022

The Evergreen Cooperative Laundry’s partnership with Cleveland Clinic is perhaps the best-known example of an “anchor institution” approach to economic development in the United States. The worker-owned business is the primary laundry vendor for the Cleveland Clinic’s entire northeast Ohio area. Their experience to date suggests that it is indeed possible for a health system … Read More

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