July 25, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health and Truth Initiative are asking women’s colleges in the United States to apply for their grant program dedicated to helping colleges and universities advocate for, adopt and implement 100% smoke- and tobacco-free campus policies. Currently, only 10 of 38 women’s colleges, and just 1,853 of all colleges and universities in the United States have
March 19, 2018 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — As part of its “Be The First” multiyear smoking cessation campaign, CVS Health plans to award $10 million this year to support youth smoking prevention and education programs and strategies nationwide. CVS said Monday that the new commitments, funded through the company and the CVS Health Foundation, are part of its
December 18, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The CVS Health Foundation is making a $550,000 grant to the Alzheimer’s Association to boost its support for a new program to enhance disease diagnosis and assessment with clinicians and to educate them about care and support programs to help families. CVS said the grant, which is being shared with six local
November 1, 2017 by Bill Schiffner
Association of American Cancer Institutes, Barbara Duffy Stewart, CVS Health, CVS Health Foundation, CVS smoking cessation, Eileen Howard Boone, smoking cessation
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — The CVS Health Foundation has awarded $1 million dollars in grants to eight Association of American Cancer Institutes (AACI) member cancer centers. CVS said Wednesday that the grants will help support new smoking cessation programs or expand current ones nationwide, which will enable each cancer institute to reach more at-risk patient populations.
October 12, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
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CVS Health continues to back up its mantra of getting people “on the path to better health” with action. Having dropped tobacco from its stores and refocused its front end on better-for-you products, CVS is taking aim at e-cigarettes. The company has made a three-year, $500,000 grant to bring the CATCH Global Foundation’s youth e-cigarette
October 4, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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NEW YORK — Chain drug retailers have stepped forward with donations and other aid for relief efforts on Puerto Rico, which is still reeling from the infrastructural damage wrought by Hurricane Maria. Walgreens, CVS Pharmacy, Rite Aid and Discount Drug Mart are among the chains contributing funds and other assistance to the U.S. territory, where
September 19, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health is ramping up its efforts to curb tobacco use among young Americans. The CVS Health Foundation said Tuesday that it has teamed up with American Cancer Society and Truth Initiative to provide grants to help U.S. colleges and universities promote, adopt and implement 100% smoke- and tobacco-free campus policies. Along
August 28, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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HOUSTON — Along with residents, retailers in southeast Texas were pounded by Hurricane Harvey as the storm drenched the region with historical levels of rainfall. The hurricane, which hit the Texas Gulf Coast on Friday and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm, caused massive flooding throughout the region and forced hundreds of pharmacies
August 23, 2017 by CDR Blog and Chain Drug Review
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As pharmacy care models refocus on the quality rather than the quantity of care, the Pharmacy Quality Alliance and CVS Health Foundation are doing their part to prepare future pharmacists. The two organizations have ushered in the 2017-18 class of PQA-CVS Health Foundation Scholars. Now in year two, the program supports and recognizes pharmacy student
March 13, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has earmarked $10 million in new and expanded partnerships and programs for the second year of “Be The First,” its five-year, $50 million initiative to help deliver the nation’s first tobacco-free generation. CVS said Monday that the partnerships and programs — funded through CVS Health and the CVS Health Foundation
February 17, 2017 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health’s removal of tobacco products from its drug stores over two years ago continues to impact retail cigarette sales. A new study from the CVS Health Research Institute, published online Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health, found that dropping tobacco from all CVS Pharmacy stores reduced the number of
August 22, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — Over the weekend, CVS Pharmacy deployed a mobile pharmacy to serve customers of store damaged by the historic rainfall and flooding in greater Baton Rouge, La. CVS said it opened the mobile pharmacy on Saturday in the parking lot of its Denham Springs, La., store, which sustained water damage. The facility enabled
July 8, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
American Academy of Pediatrics, CVS Health, CVS Health Foundation, Eileen Howard Boone, medication nonadherence, medication reconciliation programs, Troyen Brennan
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WOONSOCKET, R.I. —Medication reconciliation programs can help patients avoid hospital readmission and, in turn, unnecessary health care costs, according to a study from the CVS Health Research Institute. Also this week, the CVS Health Foundation announced a new grant to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) to help improve counseling by pediatric health care providers about tobacco and exposure
June 16, 2016 by Chain Drug Review
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FORT WORTH, Texas — Cetaphil has unveiled a limited-edition product display at select CVS Pharmacy stores in partnership with the Children’s Skin Disease Foundation (CSDF) and its Camp Wonder initiative. The Galderma Laboratories skin care brand said Thursday that Cetaphil Moisturizing Cream (16 oz., $15.99) is being showcased at 1,500 CVS stores locations nationwide through