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Building Healthier Communities focuses on the areas where we can leverage our organization’s size and scale to maximize our impact in local communities.
Funding from CVS Health and the CVS Health and Aetna Foundations will be invested over five years to support initiatives and nonprofits across three categories: improving local access to affordable quality care; impacting public health challenges; and partnering with local communities on the most pressing health issues...
Our colleagues will play a key role in these efforts by supporting awareness of our work and deploying their time, talent and passion to give back to their communities.
We are committed to delivering at least $healthier communities.
Together, we will deliver significant social impacts that support the health of communities across the U.S., including an increase in patient engagement and improving health outcomes in communities we serve.
All of this work will build on the strong legacies of community commitment established by both CVS Health and Aetna, along with our Foundations.
Through the CVS Health Foundation, we make strategic investments that increase access to health care in local communities.
A private foundation created by CVS Health, the CVS Health Foundation provides support for nonprofit partners, pharmacy schools and our colleagues.
The Foundation focuses philanthropic giving in four areas: access to health care for underserved populations; smoking cessation and youth tobacco prevention; mitigating and preventing prescription drug abuse; and local community support.
In in new grants to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics to support 49 clinics working to improve health outcomes for patients managing chronic conditions.
Partnering with the National Association of Community Health Centers, in health centers addressing the opioid crisis in their local communities.
We proudly extend our philanthropic efforts through the Aetna Foundation, which works to influence the social and economic factors impacting health in communities across the country through four main initiatives.
Multi-year collaboration with U.S. News & World Report to evaluate which communities across the U.S. are doing the best job of improving health and to inspire localized action by policy and health officials.
State and community-based grants to address the national opioid crisis.
Grants for local, not-for-profit organizations focused on social determinants of health impacting underserved populations.
A multi-year competition across the U.S. to help health issues.
Building Healthier Communities Combating Prescription Drug Abuse CVS Health has made a commitment to help address the abuse and misuse of prescription opioids by designing programs and collaborating with community leaders, policymakers, law enforcement, health care professionals and others to increase communitybased ed...
Management and Strengthening Patient Consultations One of our greatest opportunities to reduce medication misuse is through the implementation of enhanced opioid utilization management for our CVS Caremark clients, who represent 92 million member lives.
Statistics show that the longer the days supply of opioids, the more likely a first-time user is to become a chronic user.
We will continue to monitor and optimize our utilization management to build on these early results.
CVS Pharmacy also strengthened counseling for patients filling their first opioid prescription, helping them to understand the risk of dependence, importance of safe storage and disposal, and recommendations from the CDC on using the lowest effective dose for the shortest possible duration.
To support our pharmacists in providing the best care for patients struggling with opioid-use disorder, in new training for retail pharmacists on medication assisted treatment (MAT).
The training, developed in partnership with TRC Healthcare, the authors of Pharmacists Letter, sought to reduce stigma related to MAT and arm pharmacists with strategies to work with patients, providers and colleagues in providing the most appropriate and compassionate care.
Our pharmacists are on the front lines of our work to reduce prescription drug abuse and their commitment to helping communities combat opioid misuse is inspiring.
Through our Pharmacists Teach prevention education program, pharmacists go beyond their day-to-day responsibilities behind the counter and into classrooms to educate teens and parents on the dangers of misusing prescription drugs.
Since volunteered their time to deliver the “One Choice Changes Everything®” curriculum to more than 450,000 teens and parents across the country, with a goal to reach 750,000 people by 2020.
Education for parents was a priority area of focus in our curriculum to CVS Caremark members.
In brought the Prescription for Parents program to 26 new states, delivering 134 presentations.
Pharmacists Teach In Pharmacists Teach program to Metro Youth Day in Detroit.
Our pharmacists educated attendees on prescription drug misuse and colleagues from MinuteClinic discussed smoking cessation and MinuteClinic services available to the community.
Safe Medication Disposal Increasing access to safe medication disposal in local communities helps clear homes of unused medications that could be diverted, abused, contaminate the water supply or end up in landfills, if disposed of improperly.
In drastically increased the number of safe medication disposal sites, adding 750 units in CVS Pharmacy locations.
Building Healthier Communities https://cvshealth.com/social-responsibility/our-opioid-response https://cvshealth.com/social-responsibility/our-opioid-response https://drugfree.org/ make drug collection units available to law enforcement agencies.
Local law enforcement agencies can apply online for a disposal unit.
Through this program, we have donated nearly across the country.
In total, the more than we have installed or donated nationwide have collected more than 480,000 pounds, or 217 metric tons, of unwanted medication.
We also helped raise awareness of the importance of proper drug disposal through participation in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) National Prescription Take-Back Day biannual events.
In 100 CVS Pharmacy locations joined other community sites around the country to host law enforcement take-back events in April and October, allowing the public to safely dispose of unwanted medication.
Prescription Drug Abuse We also work to increase awareness of the dangers of prescription drug abuse and misuse by leveraging our communications channels reaching millions of customers each day.
In January Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Drug and Alcohol Facts Week and donated in-store radio and receipt messaging to inform customers and direct them to online resources.
We also partnered with Viacom to promote Listen, an initiative developed in partnership with the Surgeon General and the nonprofit organization Facing Addiction focused on breaking down the stigma of addiction through an in-store radio donation.
Increasing Naloxone Education, Access and Affordability CVS Pharmacy continues to expand its industry-leading program to provide patients with education and access to naloxone, the lifesaving opioid overdose-reversal drug.
In-store signage and radio messages that highlight the availability and accessibility of naloxone and seek to remove the stigma around substance-abuse disorders and treatments.
• Enhanced counseling for CVS Pharmacy patients, particularly those with higher doses of prescription opioids, about the availability and importance of naloxone.
CVS Pharmacy also began accepting and automatically applying a coupon for NARCAN nasal spray for patients without insurance, through our partnership with Adapt Pharmaceuticals.
The resulting out-of-pocket cost of $the spray is the lowest net price available on the market for patients without insurance.
In addition to educating patients on the importance of naloxone, we have worked for years to increase the availability of naloxone at CVS Pharmacy without requiring an individual prescription.
As part of our commitment to fighting the opioid epidemic, the CVS Health Foundation made a $commitment in support of federallyqualified community health centers to increase access to medicationassisted treatment and other recovery services.
We partnered with the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) to convene a panel of experts that developed a protocol of best practices for community health centers on provider prescription guidelines, medicationassisted treatment, behavioral health, and collaboration with other community organizations...
Through this commitment, in CVS Health Foundation provided grants to 12 additional community health centers across the U.S. to reach nearly 350,000 patients and support 115 physicians working to increase access to medication-assisted treatment.
We plan to expand Aetna’s program, “Guardian Angel,” which provides Aetna members who recently experienced an opioid overdose with support from a clinician specializing in substance use disorders.
The clinician connects with these members to provide them with support to prevent a future overdose.
Expanding Preventive Care Through Project Health Our Project Health campaign connects multicultural communities with large numbers of uninsured or underinsured residents to no-cost comprehensive health assessments that detect early risks for chronic conditions.
Since its founding in delivered more than $127 million in free health care services to nearly 1.7 million Americans.
As part of Building Healthier Communities, we will expand Project Health to reach more underserved and underinsured communities.
Our goal is to reach 16 U.S. markets and Puerto Rico, for a projected consumer value of $8.5 million.
The expansion will also do more to screen for the social determinants of health, including family, education, housing and access to fresh food.
Project Health participants who receive abnormal screenings are referred to treatment and advised on follow-up care.
We also offer an Individual Health Access Plan with an explanation of screening results, including a comparison to target numbers, and nutrition and fitness suggestions.
Delivering the First Tobacco-Free Generation Part of our commitment to building healthier communities is helping people live tobacco-free lives.
As we continue to support patients in managing chronic conditions, one of the best ways we can support the health of our communities and fulfill our purpose of helping people on their path to better health is to help those who smoke quit and ensure those who don’t, never start.
We were proud to be the first – and continue to be the only – national pharmacy chain to remove tobacco products from our stores.
to investing in cessation programs for people of all ages, we have made significant investments in tobacco prevention initiatives for youth.
That’s why CVS Health and the CVS Health Foundation made a five-year, $commitment called Be the First, which aims to deliver the first tobacco-free generation.
tobacco use, according to the FDA and CDC.
For the first time in several years, the percentage of high school students who are current cigarette smokers increased.
More than and high school students were current e-cigarette users, according to the latest report, an increase from more than 1.5 million students the previous year.
frequently and using flavored products more often than last year.
To help combat these alarming trends, we awarded, through the company and the Foundation, more than $grants in 2018 to organizations that provide an array of programming that support our Be The First focus areas, including youth tobacco and e-cigarette prevention in classrooms and communities across the country; suppor...
Through these programs, partnerships and strategic investments, we have reached more than with smoking prevention messaging.
The CVS Health Foundation has also supported a total of universities, women’s colleges, historically black colleges and universities, and community colleges to implement smoke- and tobacco-free policies, including 82 schools in 2018.
E-cigarettes are threatening to addict a new generation, and reverse the enormous, decades-long progress our nation has made in reducing youth tobacco use.
As a result, in we focused our partnerships and investments on halting the use and rapid growth of e-cigarette use among youth.
Through partnerships with the CATCH Global Foundation and Stanford University, we developed curriculums and campaigns to address the dangers of e-cigarette use among youth and to help students understand how to develop healthy coping and refusal skills.
• We developed an innovative campaign with DoSomething.org, aimed at banning flavors in e-cigarettes, as research shows this is one of the leading reasons that youth try e-cigarettes for the first time.
Later in announced that they would begin placing tighter restrictions on the sale of flavored tobacco products, including e-cigarettes.
• We launched a new partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians to train clinicians on the dangers of ENDS (electronic nicotine delivery systems).
CVS Health remains steadfast in our commitment to helping the next generation be the first tobacco-free generation.
We will continue to invest in best-in-class programming that provides our communities with the tools they need to live smoke-free.
Inspiring Growth As a health care innovation company, the way we do business has far-reaching impacts on the health of millions of Americans and the economic mobility of thousands of communities across the country.
As we continue to grow, we are committed to creating value for all our stakeholders, including our shareholders, clients, partners, communities and colleagues.
Our colleagues’ dedication to helping people on their path to better health is the driving force behind our work to transform the health care experience.
In turn, our commitment to them spans a best-in-class rewards package, opportunities to advance their careers at every level, and an inclusive workplace.
We must have a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve and are constantly bringing a wider range of perspectives to our company.
We conduct business with integrity, transparency and accountability.
This includes protecting the valuable information our stakeholders have entrusted to us, meeting or exceeding applicable regulatory compliance and voluntary standards, and using our expertise to advocate for solutions to our country’s most pressing health care challenges.
We continue to uphold our commitment to having a responsible supply chain with respect for human rights and the livelihoods we impact around the world.
By leading and inspiring growth in every facet of our business, we are positioning our company for continued success and deepening our ability to create positive social change.
Our workforce development programs and recruitment strategies leverage the exceptional talents available in our local communities to ensure CVS Health colleagues serve as the face of health care for generations to come.
We invest in youth education and career training, provide quality employment opportunities for people of all abilities and support our nation’s veterans as they transition into civilian life.
These programs are made possible through collaboration with state and federal agencies, schools, universities and community organizations.
Across our company in development programs and other recruiting efforts, we hired nearly 85,000 colleagues.
To date, our efforts have helped more than meaningful employment opportunities.
for Youth With some of the best talent in the industry, we have a unique opportunity to expose youth to a vast number of careers in health care.
Our STEMenriched, nationally recognized program, myCVS Journey Pathways to Health Care Careers, introduces students to career opportunities in pharmacy services; professional management; medicine and nursing; and IT, analytics and engineering.
In participated in the program, nearly half of whom engaged in the pharmacy track.
Investing in Job Training To strengthen our workforce and address our nation’s widening skills gap, we train highly capable individuals for meaningful careers in pharmacy care, prescription benefit management, and retail store management.
In we became the first employer to launch a U.S. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship program for pharmacy technicians.
By 8,000 registered apprentices and provide these new colleagues with classroom and online instruction, professional mentorship, and on-the-job training, as well as pre- and postplacement retention support.
At the end of colleagues through this program.

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