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The name "CVS" was used for the first time in 1964. That year, they had 17 retail locations, and 40 stores five years later. [17]In 1967, CVS began operation of its first stores with pharmacy departments, opening locations in Warwick and Cumberland, Rhode Island.
MinuteClinic is a division of CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) that provides retail clinic services. [2] MinuteClinic was initially started as QuickMedx [3] by Dr. Douglas Smith and his patient Rick Krieger, along with Stephen Pontius in Minneapolis, Minnesota. MinuteClinic has more than 1,100 locations in 33 states and the District of Columbia.
Shopping vendors include a Boston-themed souvenir shop, a LovePop Card booth, a two-floor CVS Pharmacy. [35] [36] [37] Public art, including a sculpture built of railroad car couplers and a model of the planet Jupiter (the latter is part of the Museum of Science's scale model of the Solar System) Free Wi-Fi [38]
CVS Pharmacy fills more than one of every five prescriptions in the United States, and 85% of U.S. population lives within 10 miles of a CVS Pharmacy. [44] The ExtraCare loyalty program boasts over 70 million cardholders, making it the largest retail loyalty program in the country.
In January 2019, Walmart announced that it would no longer use CVS Caremark as its pharmacy benefit manager. [19] In January 2020, CVS Caremark announced RxZero, a program that would allow patients with diabetes to pay no copays. [20] In February 2020, Alan Lotvin was appointed president of CVS Caremark. [21]
In May 2019, Whittier Street Health Center made national news [21] [22] when it announced it had diagnosed two new cases of HIV in Boston's opioid addicted population. The news confirmed fears from public health advocates that HIV use was spreading in MA and Boston, due primarily to shared needles and increased risky behaviors from the state's addicted and transient populations.
Dorchester (/ ˈ d ɔːr tʃ ɛ s t ər /) is a neighborhood comprising more than 6 square miles (16 km 2) in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.Originally, Dorchester was a separate town, founded by Puritans who emigrated in 1630 from Dorchester, Dorset, England, to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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