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DEERFIELD, Ill. & MILWAUKEE – December 6, 2016 – Walgreens and Aurora Health Care today announced that Aurora Health Care will own and operate, and provide all clinical services at, eight retail health clinics to be located within Walgreens stores across eastern Wisconsin.

DEERFIELD, Ill., December 05, 2016 - Walgreens received a perfect score of 100 percent on the 2017 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. This marks the 11th year Walgreens has earned a perfect score from the CEI index.

Baptist Health and Walgreens today announced a collaboration focused on improving and coordinating healthcare to create greater convenience and value for residents of northeast Florida.   

DEERFIELD, Ill., October 13, 2016 - To help victims of Hurricane Matthew, customers shopping at Walgreens stores in southeastern U.S. states will have the opportunity to make donations to the American Red Cross Relief Fund in increments of $1, $2, $5 or $10.

Walgreens is underscoring the importance of prescription preparedness for its pharmacy patients in areas that may be impacted by Hurricane Matthew, currently threatening the southeastern U.S.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in collaboration with Walgreens, will help provide more than $10 million worth of free flu shot vouchers this flu season to improve flu immunization rates among uninsured Americans. Through the initiative, which is in its seventh year, Walgreens has provided more than $50 million worth of vouchers to communities across the country. 

The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative, the country’s largest employer-led coalition committed to creating pathways to meaningful employment for young people, today announced that it has met its goal of employing 100,000 Opportunity Youth, the population of 16-24 year olds who are out of work and not in school, two years ahead of schedule. 

Today, Walgreens and the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) announced a collaboration that expands Walgreens efforts to fight prescription drug abuse. Through this collaboration, the APhA Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependencies will continue to offer a substance abuse education program for pharmacists and student pharmacists.

Walgreens was honored with the American Cancer Society’s (ACS) Discovery Ball Corporate Partnership Award at the 10th Annual Discovery Ball  April 2 at the Hilton Chicago. Walgreen Co. President Alex Gourlay was in attendance and accepted the award on behalf of Walgreens

Today, Walgreens and the United Nations Foundation announced a special expansion of the Get a Shot. Give a Shot® program, which will double donations of life-saving vaccines in support of #GivingTuesday.   For every immunization, including flu shots, administered at a Walgreens pharmacy, Healthcare Clinic or Duane Reade pharmacy, the value of two life-saving vaccines will be donated to a child in a developing country through the UN Foundation’s Shot@Life campaign.  This will apply to all immunizations administered at Walgreens beginning Black Friday, Nov. 27, through #GivingTuesday, Dec.  1.