JeffSolves Summer Sprint
With Jefferson Health, we launched the JeffSolves Summer Sprint, a six-week program that brought together thirty-five volunteers to develop twelve solutions addressing emerging barriers to Medicaid and SNAP coverage. Launch Point Labs designed, built, and ran the program end to end, from recruitment and curriculum through a live Demo Day judged by an advisory panel of health-system and community partners.
The challenge
In 2026, renewals moved to every six months, and new work requirements added paperwork that many recipients did not know about. During the last major eligibility change, 69 percent of the people who lost Medicaid nationally lost it for procedural reasons, such as missed paperwork. The sprint focused on the barriers that keep eligible people from enrolling and staying covered. Jefferson's Health Design Lab and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey brought community members together to design the response.
6
Weeks
35
Volunteers
69%
Of people who lost Medicaid nationally during the 2023 to 2024 unwinding lost it for procedural reasons, such as paperwork.
Source: KFF Medicaid Enrollment and Unwinding Tracker.
What we delivered
Program architecture
Recruitment and team formation across thirty-five volunteers.
Session design
Speaker coordination across state agencies, nonprofits, and health-system partners.
Participant coaching
Weekly participant coaching and concept development from broad concern to buildable idea.
Program operations
Pitch guides, slide frameworks, scoring rubrics, session recaps, and run-of-show operations.
Demo Day production
Full production of a live virtual Demo Day, including advisory-panel preparation and real-time stage management.
Policy research
Verified policy research underpinning every team's build, from federal rulemaking to state form numbers.
The outcome
In six weeks, thirty-five volunteers working in eight teams turned broad concerns about Medicaid and SNAP coverage into twelve solutions, each grounded in verified policy research and presented at a live virtual Demo Day to an expert advisory panel of health-system and community partners.
Jefferson is now piloting two of the ideas from the sprint, and other ideas are moving forward with other partners.
“And a particular thank you to Launch Point Labs, who ran the operational backbone of this sprint from kickoff through Demo Day and kept eight teams on schedule for six weeks.”
Robert Pugliese
Director, Scholarly Inquiry - Design, Sidney Kimmel Medical College
“Such an impressive group of people that approached what feel like intractable problems and found innovative and feasible solutions. Can’t wait to see what comes out of this important initiative!”
Christine James
Assistant Vice President, Jefferson Health
