Pilot program · 2026
A program built around your heart.
Sudden cardiac events are the leading cause of on-duty death in the fire service. They arrive without warning, but they are very rarely without history — most of the risk that produces them is measurable years ahead, in numbers a firefighter can move.
Email and phone · your results go to your care team only
Eight factors, each scored on its own.
The American Heart Association’s Life’s Essential 8. You see every number, not just an average — because the useful information is which of the eight is low, and which is already strong.
- 01Physical activity
- 02Sleep
- 03Tobacco
- 04Cholesterol
- 05Blood sugar
- 06Blood pressure
- 07Body mass index
- 08Diet
Three steps, and the first one is two fields.
You have already answered the clinical questions once. This program is built so you never answer them twice.
You sign up
An email address and a phone number, and that is the whole form. Your existing results come across on our side — every number, all eight factors, your risk estimate. You never answer any of it twice.
Two things we don’t already hold
Your insurance details, so benefits can be verified before any imaging is booked, and the times, days and ZIP codes that actually work around your shifts. Neither waits on the other.
Your pathway opens
Your matched pathway, your weekly readings, your care team and your results all live in one portal. Your coach sets your start date at your first visit.
A score is the start, not the point.
Everything below is included in the pilot, and your cost for all of it is $0.
Your Life’s Essential 8 score
Eight factors scored the way the American Heart Association scores them, with the number for each one shown rather than rolled into a grade.
A 45-minute visit with Cindy Cathcart, RN
Your Whole Health Coach, and the same one the whole way through. She reads your baseline before you meet, and sets your start date at that visit.
The pathway that matches your results
Eight weeks, in two four-week modules, chosen from your answers rather than from a menu. You see why it matched.
A virtual visit with Dr. Mike McConnell
Cardiology review of your screening, and a clear answer on whether imaging is warranted for you — including when it isn’t.
Testing coordinated for you
If a scan is indicated, OneVillage arranges the site, the vendor and the coverage check, and confirms what your plan pays before anything is booked.
Who sees your answers
Your individual answers and scores go to your OneVillage care team and nobody else. The Palo Alto Fire Department never sees an individual result — the Department receives aggregate, de-identified participation reporting only.