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CVS Health celebrates its nearly 30,000 pharmacists
WOONSOCKET, R.I. - In recognition of October's American Pharmacists Month, CVS Health is celebrating the role its nearly 30,000 pharmacists play in helping people on their path to better health by helping to change the way health care is delivered through increasing access, lowering costs and improving care quality in the company's retail, mail service and specialty pharmacies across the country.
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Walgreens donating $50,000 to Pantene Beautiful Lengths Fund

CINCINNATI -- Walgreens is donating $50,000 to the Pantene Beautiful Lengths Fund to help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the program.
WSJ: Charles Walgreen propelled family firm with focus on drug stores

Charles Walgreen III, grandson of the founder of the Walgreens drugstore chain, devised a new plan for the company after taking over as chief executive in 1971, according to a new profile in The Wall Street Journal.

A man of few words, he told his management team to focus on drugstores and get rid of peripheral businesses, including restaurants, discount department stores, aspirin-making plants and a travel agency. He also simplified the stores’ product line, getting rid of parakeets, pillows and hammocks.
Rite Aid, Kinney Drugs funding tech project at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Rite Aid and Kinney Drugs are helping to fund a project at the Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences that will transform unoccupied space into high-tech, “active learning” classrooms.

According to WAMC Public Radio, the $1.65 million project will take nearly 6,000 square feet that has been dormant for more than a decade and turn it into classrooms for 70 students each.
Report: Target invites pitches from startups

Target has launched a website that invites pitches from startups who are interested in running pilot programs with the retailer, according to a report from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

The newspaper reports that Target wants to use this new site to find new technology platforms to enhance the customer experience in its stores and through its digital channels. It is not intended to be the place to go to plug products that companies want Target to sell on its shelves or online, the Star-Tribune reports.
Rite Aid, Folds of Honor celebrate DreamShip’s inaugural launch

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — With the Statue of Liberty, One World Trade Center and Ellis Island as a backdrop, nonprofit Folds of Honor inaugurated its DreamShip — a full-size hot air balloon — at Liberty State Park Thursday, kicking off a yearlong, awareness-raising nationwide tour for the balloon, with Rite Aid executives and associates, Folds of Honor founder Maj. Dan Rooney, New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, scholarship recipients and other sponsors in attendance.
CVS Health expands access to non-prescription naloxone to five additional states

WOONSOCKET, R.I. - CVS Health on Thursday announced it has expanded access to the opioid overdose-reversal drug naloxone in Alabama, Alaska, Illinois, Missouri and West Virginia, allowing CVS Pharmacy patients to access the medication without an individual prescription.

In total, CVS Pharmacy patients in 36 states now have increased access to the opioid overdose-reversal drug.
University of Rhode Island Foundation names former CVS chief Tom Ryan chairman

KINGSTON, R.I. – The University of Rhode Island on Tuesday elected former CVS Health chairman and CEO Tom Ryan as chairman of the University of Rhode Island Foundation Board of Directors. Ryan was elected to the volunteer post at the Foundation’s Board of Director’s meeting held Sept. 22.