WALGREEN CO
			Symbol			WAG

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Walgreens and Take Care Health Systems Applaud Health Care Professionals During National Nurse Practitioner Week

2009-11-09 12:26 ET - News Release

Clinicians at Take Care Health are Driving Force Behind Patient and Employer-Centric Health Care Innovation

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. -- (Business Wire)

Take Care Health Systems, the largest provider of convenient care clinics and worksite health and wellness centers in the country and part of Walgreens (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG) health and wellness division, is celebrating national Nurse Practitioner Week by applauding the thousands of health care professionals who work at the more than 700 Take Care Clinics and employer health and wellness centers that the company operates throughout the United States. National Nurse Practitioner Week is from Nov. 8 – 14 and is sponsored by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Nurse Practitioners (NPs) play a vital role in the delivery of high-quality patient care in both Take Care Clinics at select Walgreens drugstores and in many worksite health and wellness centers located at employer campuses. Both of these settings have been shown to deliver exemplary health care experiences while also reducing costs for patients and employers. A 2009 RAND study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine notes that retail health facilities, such as Take Care Clinics, offer treatment of common ailments at a substantially lower cost than physician offices, urgent care centers and emergency rooms while providing equal or better levels of care quality. Employer-based health and wellness centers typically provide a two to four dollar return on investment for employers who utilize them while improving the health and well-being of employee populations, according to Take Care Health Systems data.

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