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A collaborative effort bringing together individuals and organizations to revolutionize healthcare delivery and community well-being in Western Pennsylvania and beyond.

What If Better Healthcare Could Change our Community?

Revolutionizing Healthcare in Western Pennsylvania:
For nearly two decades, SparkPittsburgh has been at the forefront of promoting wellness and personal growth in our community. Through our online platform, app, and annual fitness challenges, we've built a thriving community dedicated to health and well-being.

Now, we're taking our mission further by bringing together an alliance of individuals and organizations to help us reshape healthcare by getting the word out that we've restored care delivery to the way it was always intended, being patient centered and on focused treatment and prevention. We believe that this type of care should be accessible to everyone because when you take better care of people, they stay healthy - and we all save money.

By collectively leveraging these savings to support and accelerate community programs, we can realize a healthier, vibrant, and more prosperous Western Pennsylvania. Together, we can improve millions of lives and save billions of dollars across our region each year.

Western Pennsylvania is leading the charge to transform healthcare, guided by executive champions, comprehensive solutions, and a roadmap including a
Proven Approach, Replicable Strategy, and Unique Edge:

A Proven Approach:
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Healthcare Transformation is Already Here 

SparkPittsburgh is driving real change in Western Pennsylvania. We already are on with right track because of Pittsburgh-based solutions like PeopleOne Health, whose advanced primary care model is reshaping healthcare delivery:
-Up to 30% reduction in healthcare costs
-Patients avoid up to $1200 in out of pocket costs
- A patient Net Promoter Score of 97:
(among the top customer satisfaction scores world-wide)
 
These results prove that better healthcare is not just possible
– it's already happening right here in our region.
A Replicable Strategy

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Reinvest Savings Into the Community

We're inspired by the success of Rosen Hotels and Resorts in Orlando, which saved over $500M by prioritizing primary care for employees. This approach not only improved the health and well-being of their workforce but also allowed them to offer competitive salaries and benefits. They reinvested a portion of these savings into impactful community and educational initiatives, creating a virtuous cycle of health and prosperity. All of this resulted in Orlando's Tangelo Park neighborhood realizing a 100%  high school graduation rate and lowered the crime rate by 63%
 
We aim to replicate this success in Western Pennsylvania, channeling our healthcare savings into important programs like workforce development and education.
A Unique Edge:

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Primary care is central to healthcare transformation. Right now, our region has the capacity to offer 12,000 Western Pennsylvanians access to advanced primary care – an opportunity that's the envy of communities nationwide.
We need your help to grow and spread the word that the more primary care centers we can build the closer we come to achieving our goals and provide our friends, families and community with world-class healthcare and significant savings.
 
This unique position allows us to:
-Continue driving healthcare innovation
-Expand access to quality care 
- Compete better with other regions
 
We need your help to grow and spread the word that the more primary care centers we can build the closer we come to achieving our goals and provide our friends, families and community with world-class healthcare and significant savings.

 

Join us in our goal is to recruit over 1,000 people to join this crucial movement.

By joining the SparkPittsburgh Initiative, you can engage in upcoming live discussions, keep informed about our advancements, and help promote innovative healthcare solutions that we're already implementing.

Don't forget to explore our Ignite with a Spark Podcast and Live Stream!

Our SPARKPITTSBURGH Executive Champions

Driving much of are work are dynamic leaders, and influencers across our region shape and share our work. Their Goal? To amplify our solutions and enable a culture of wellbeing through engaging wellness activities inside of each of their organizations.

As part of their commitment,  SPARKPITTSBURGH Executive Champions  Stand with our work, Share our culture of wellbeing, Support innovation, and Sustain economic growth.

Becoming an Executive Champion

Joining SPARKPITTSBURGH as an Executive Champion elevates your role to leading our local economy to prosperity, enhancing your brand, and securing unparalleled recognition for your business. Additionally, your company will enjoy exclusive free access to the PeopleOne Health app and website, fostering goal achievement through friendly competition with individuals, companies, and cities. 

Our Inspiration
Harris Rosen and the Tangelo Park Story

Harris Rosen's leadership led his company to save over $500 million, enhancing healthcare while uplifting Orlando's Tangelo Park community. As a key partner and investor in PeopleOne Health, we aim to extend his healthcare savings model for broader community impact. The SPARKPITTSBURGH Initiative seeks to scale this approach, funding community projects for transformative change through healthcare savings.
 
Learn more from Ashley Bacot, the Health Plan Architect behind Rosen Hotel's innovative program:

Meet Our Executive Champions

 

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Investing in Solutions

We are bold enough to believe we can change healthcare but are humble enough to know we can not do so alone. This is why we champion investment in solutions that drive impact in the communities we call home.
 
Right now, we are investing in an organization called Undue Medical Debt, one of the leading charitable organizations that help pay medical bills. They work tirelessly to end medical debt and ensure a future where everyone can access healthcare without fear
 

Our Corporate and Community Partners

PEOPLEONE Health: The Evolution of SPARKAMERICA

SPARKAMERICA began as a community of individuals supporting one another through their health and well-being journey. Today, SPARKAMERICA is part of one of the more innovative healthcare organizations in America, PEOPLEONE Health. We have since spent many years with a team of healthcare experts and tens of millions of dollars developing industry-leading solutions that will drive our healthcare transformation. This has led to other cities/states clamoring for these solutions, but we want to help Western PA since this is our hometown.  We've grown into a world-class health and healthcare organization through more than two decades of innovation, growth, and bringing together the right pieces. 

Components

In addition to advanced primary care health centers, PEOPLEONE Health has invested millions of dollars into a proprietary behavior change and wellness community  tech platform.
 
Our app powers the SPARKPITTSBURGH Fit City Challenge, a free corporate activity challenge that promotes a regional culture of wellness. 

Savings

PeopleOne Health allows employers a turnkey way to move from volume-based to value-based healthcare purchasing and contracting.

Our approach saves employers up to 30% on healthcare spending (verified by 3rd-party actuaries) while providing barrier free access to world-class healthcare.

Alignment

Incentives are aligned for everyone in our ecosystem: patients, doctors, care teams, client organizations, health systems, distribution partners, and entire cities.
 
When you allow clinicians the time and resources to take better care of people, they get healthier. Caring for healthier people cost less.  

Happy Customers

Members are thrilled and it is reflected in PeopleOne Health's customers satisfaction indicators leading  to a 95+ Net Promoter Score (NPS)!

This has led to other cities/states clamoring for these solutions, but we want to help Western PA since this is our hometown. 

Let's Get the Word Out

Helping grow the initiative is easy. Please take a moment to share our work with friends and coworkers. 

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