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WOONSOCKET, R.I. and WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF) today announced a new partnership to identify, inspire and prepare young Latinos to join health care fields, through a new Health Care category of the prestigious HHF Youth Awards program. This fall and winter, CVS Caremark and HHF will recognize more than 30 outstanding high school seniors of Latino descent for their academic performance, community service and...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) announced today the release of the Caremark.com Droid application. Available at no cost at the Android Market, this new application provides Android users with the ability to access the Drug Information Database to learn more about various prescription drugs and allows CVS Caremark plan members to log-in and securely manage their prescriptions on-line. The application can be used with Android 2.1 OS and above phones....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Oct. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The City of Morgantown is launching a program tomorrow to help provide residents with some relief from the high cost of prescription medications. Through the program - sponsored by the National League of Cities (NLC) - the city is making free prescription discount cards available to city residents. The discount cards offer city residents an average of 23 percent savings off the retail price of prescription medications. The NLC Prescription...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP), a national professional association of pharmacists and health care practitioners, announced today the appointment of Edith A. Rosato, R.Ph., IOM, as Chief Executive Officer. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110804/DC47695LOGO) Rosato will take over from long-time CEO Judith Cahill, who announced her plans to retire earlier this year. The Academy is one of the nation's leaders in managed...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Oct. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- MinuteClinic, the largest provider of retail-based medical clinics in the United States, has opened two walk-in medical clinics inside CVS/pharmacy stores in Savannah and Richmond Hill. They are the first retail medical clinics to open in the Savannah region and join 31 other MinuteClinic locations in Georgia situated throughout the Atlanta metropolitan area. The clinics are part of MinuteClinic's plans to open 100 new clinics nationwide in...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS Caremark, the nation's largest pharmacy health care provider, is taking the opportunity during October's American Pharmacists Month to recognize the critical role that its pharmacists play in programs and services that are delivering solutions that improve the health of patients while lowering the overall cost of health care. CVS Caremark employs more than 26,000 pharmacists in its retail pharmacies, mail service pharmacies and specialty...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS/pharmacy's ExtraCare Rewards program, the largest retail rewards program with more than 69 million active cardholders, today announced the continuation of its successful "MoneyTrashers" campaign with the launch of several fun and useful digital resources on CVS.com and the CVS/pharmacy Facebook page. To encourage shoppers to redeem their ExtraBucks® Rewards, just in time for the October 1 quarterly rewards payout, CVS/pharmacy has...

WOONSOCKET, R.I. and NEEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Industry research finds that one in five seniors are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of discharge, representing a prevalent and costly issue for health plan sponsors. Moreover, it is estimated that nearly 70 percent of adverse health events that take place after hospital discharge are related to medication management issues. To address this issue, CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Dovetail Health, a leading provider...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Sept. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- CVS/pharmacy held a grand opening event today at its Distribution Center in Chemung, New York. U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, U.S. Representative Thomas Reed, Lieutenant Governor Robert Duffy, New York State Senator Thomas O'Mara and New York State Assemblyman Christopher Friend were among the federal, state and local officials who attended the grand opening this afternoon. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100816/NE50800LOGO ) The...

WOONSOCKET, R.I., Sept. 26, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As consumers and patients increasingly use social media as a health care tool and resource, a survey by Harvard University, Brigham and Women's Hospital and CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) researchers demonstrates that there is great variability in the standards used to ensure sites effectively provide information and answers to important health-related questions. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090226/NE75914LOGO) The researchers...