What are AARP and Walgreens announcing?
AARP and Walgreens are launching a two-year national mobile health screening tour called The AARP/Walgreens Wellness Tour. The goal of the tour is to deliver more than 2.5 million free health screenings for early detection and prevention of diseases, as well as health education, with a special emphasis on underserved areas. The total value of the screenings to be administered over the course of the tour is estimated at over $60 million. The nationwide tour will visit more than 3,000 communities in 300 cities in 45 states and Puerto Rico via nine customized, traveling education and health-screening buses. One of the nine buses is solely dedicated to Puerto Rico and is called the AARP/Walgreens La Gira Del Buen Vecino. The tour officially kicks off on April 14, 2009 in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza. (The tour had a soft launch in February 2009 in the Puerto Rico market).