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WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Pharmacy has opened its first standalone store in the Centennial State. CVS Pharmacy executives celebrated the grand opening of the new store in Parker, Colo. — the first of three slated to open in the greater Denver market this year — with state Sen. Jim Smallwood and state Rep. Kim Ransom.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — On the heels of its bringing nonprescription naloxone to patients in Arizona, CVS Health highlighted the reach and scale of the ongoing opioid crisis, as well as its efforts to help combat the roughly 91 deaths due to opioids that happen every days, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVs Health and the Boston Red Sox helped veterans celebrate Memorial Day a little early this year. The CVS Health Baseball Camp marked its seventh year Thursday, bringing 20 veterans from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Fenway Park in Boston to work with Red Sox hitting coaches one-on-one.

Veterans got batting tips from Red Sox hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Victor Rodriguez, and were treated to lunch in the stadium, as well as a VIP tour and tickets to the evening’s game against the Texas Rangers courtesy of CVS Health.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The Pharmacy Quality Alliance and CVS Health Foundation’s inaugural class of 38 students and mentors have successfully completed a scholarship opportunity whereby students pair with a mentor to design and implement a quality-related project. The program concluded with the students presenting the results of their projects during the Poster Presentation session at the PQA Annual Meeting.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Direct and indirect remuneration fees and delayed maximum allowable cost adjustment ranked highest on scales of both magnitude and immediacy for rural pharmacists, according to new research released by the RUPRI Center for Rural Health Policy Analysis.

PHOENIX — CVS Health welcomed Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich and State Rep. Heather Carter on Tuesday to officially introduce access to the opioid overdose-reversal medicine naloxone by making it available without a prescription at all CVS Pharmacy locations in Arizona. Pharmacists in Arizona will use prescriptive authority to dispense the life-saving medication to patients without the need for a physician visit to obtain an individual prescription.

NEW YORK — AmerisourceBergen, AbbVie and Cardinal Health earned perfect scores in the Barron’s 500 list, an exclusive ranking of the 500 largest publicly traded companies, measured by reported in sales in the latest fiscal year and whose primary stock is listed in the United States or Canada. AmerisourceBergen, AbbVie and both earned perfect “grade point averages” of 4.0, based their stocks’ return on investment and sales growth.