The AARP®/Walgreens Wellness Tour launches in April 2009 and will deliver free health screenings and health education to communities across the country with a special emphasis on diverse and underserved areas.
This new two-year joint national mobile tour features nine customized buses that will travel across 48 states, visiting more than 3,000 communities. One of the nine buses - called the AARP/Walgreens La Gira Del Buen Vecino -is solely dedicated to Puerto Rico.
Last year alone, the Wellness Tour provided more than one million free health screenings to over 180,000 customers. Over the next two years the Tour has a goal to deliver more than 2.5 million free health screenings - a value of over $60 million!
Available screenings are worth over $140* per person, and no appointment is necessary. Screenings include: