Our Story

Mission. Our mission is simple and straightforward: find the best ways to make good health easier to achieve.

Inspiration. The health struggles of our founder’s father, Niel Turrini, inspired CollaborativeHealth. Niel grew up in Brooklyn and became a public high school special education teacher. As an adult, Niel was over 350lbs, smoked, and rarely exercised. Although smart, he never was healthy, dying at 74 after type 2 diabetes, heart problems, and a stroke.

Inspiration

Our Founder. For much of his career, our founder, Elliot Turrini, was a federal prosecutor. While Elliot was working in the corporate sector, his father died – causing him to reflect on his father’s lifetime of unhealthy lifestyle choices. Elliot concluded that he had to find the best way to make good health much easier for people like his dad – meaning the millions of Americans who struggle every day with the Health Basics. He then quit the high-paying corporate world to start CollaborativeHealth.

Your Opportunity. This might sound corny, but in life and in business there aren’t that many great opportunities to do something really special for millions of people while doing your job well. But, right now, together, we’ve got one. America has reached all-time highs in chronic diseases and obesity. And, the end isn’t in sight. At least not yet. This brings us your opportunity. As a large employer, you can make good health easier for all your people by partnering with CollaborativeHealth.