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CVS Caremark in
the Community
Our outreach is improving access to quality
health care.
CVS Caremark’s commitment to helping people on their
path to better health could be seen across our community
outreach efforts in 2012. In total, CVS Caremark and the
CVS Caremark Charitable Trust contributed more than
$81 million in donations, volunteer hours, and gifts-in-
kind to support charitable causes that impact the lives
of the people we serve every day.
As a pharmacy innovation company, we focused our
support on organizations that are reducing barriers
and increasing access to quality health care services,
advancing medical research, or developing wellness and
prevention programs for local communities. For example,
we launched a one-of-a-kind partnership with the Rhode
Island Free Clinic to help the uninsured obtain prescrip-
tions for vital medications filled at no cost.
With the launch of the “Innovations in Community Health”
partnership, the CVS Caremark Charitable Trust committed
$3 million over three years to members of the National
Association of Community Health Centers. This initiative
supports the development of innovative community-based
programs to manage chronic diseases such as diabetes,
heart disease, asthma, and hypertension. In 2012, the
Trust awarded 21 grants totaling more than $1 million to
community health centers across the country.
Through our All Kids Can® program, we continued partner-
ing with the nation’s top children’s hospitals. At Children’s
Hospital of Philadelphia, we invested $100,000 in rehabili-
tation equipment to be used in a pediatric setting for the
first time. This equipment includes robotic devices that
assist with regaining function in the lower and upper
extremities, and it has been found to be effective in clinical
trials for adults. We also helped Cedars-Sinai expand
the medical center’s COACH for Kids and Their Families®
program, which provides health services to more vulner-
able children in South Los Angeles who otherwise would
not have access.
Beyond our health care-related initiatives, support of first
responders and community organizations in times of disaster
has always played a significant role in our outreach efforts.
In 2012, we donated more than $300,000 to aid victims of
disasters across the United States, including floods in the
Mid-Atlantic, Tropical Storm Debby, and Hurricanes Isaac
and Sandy. We provided financial support and in-kind
donations of water, snacks, and other products to help
support the local communities impacted by these events.
A CVS Caremark colleague teaches a child how to listen to her
heart during a health fair celebrating the expansion of Cedars-
Sinai’s COACH for Kids® program in South Los Angeles. It is
supported by our CVS Caremark All Kids Can initiative.
As part of our Hurricane Sandy disaster relief efforts, we ensured
access to vital prescriptions by deploying mobile pharmacies in the
storm’s aftermath at the sites of closed CVS/pharmacy stores in
Margate, New Jersey, and Rockaway Beach, New York.
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