During the June National Program Director call, Program Directors learned about Rite Aid Corporation’s and the Rite Aid Foundation’s direction moving forward. The recording of the call is available on the Asset Library and slides have been posted to Rite Aid’s partner page for Program Directors.

Where is Rite Aid heading as a business?

Rite Aid is moving in a health and wellness direction with a particular focus on “whole health.” You will start to see new store designs and layouts beginning this year. This is all part of their “RxEvolution” business transformation. Rite Aid’s goal is to elevate the role of the pharmacist in a patient’s healthcare experience.

What is the Rite Aid Foundation?

As the public charity created by of a leading healthcare and Fortune 150 company, The Rite Aid Foundation has an extraordinary opportunity to drive leadership and progress that impacts the health and wellness of everyone in our local communities, with a special focus on underserved and disadvantaged populations, advancing racial equity and serving as a catalyst for positive change.

Where is the Rite Aid Foundation heading?

The Rite Aid Foundation, the public charity started by Rite Aid, is focused on the health and wellness of its local communities, with a special emphasis on the intersection of health disparities and racial inequities.

The Foundation aspires to be a catalyst for positive change in the communities that Rite Aid does business, particularly in work on racial equity.

In short, the Rite Aid Foundation’s work moving forward is focused on the intersection of health disparities and racial inequities.

What does this mean for the partnership with CMN Hospitals?

Rite Aid and the Rite Aid Foundation are committed to the partnership with CMN Hospitals and see the natural alignment between the Foundation’s strategic direction and CMN Hospitals’ vision to Change Kids’ Health and Change the Future.

In order to best support Rite Aid’s business goals and the goals of the Rite Aid Foundation, it is evermore important that we are communicating the impact your children’s hospitals have on the community. Impact particularly focused around community health, public health, and wellness and prevention efforts is encouraged. Program Directors are still asked to use the existing channels (CMNHospitals.org blog, partner communication, social media, NPARF, etc.) to share and report this impact.

We encourage your hospitals to use the lens of health disparities and racial inequities to craft stories and communicate impact within the Rite Aid partnership.

If you would like to share any related work that your hospital is doing, please reach out to your Market Director.

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