CVS CEO Karen Lynch. Courtesy of CVS
Good morning.
Yesterday was International Women’s Day and I got to spend it with a woman who has climbed the corporate ladder higher than any other in history – Karen Lynch, CEO of CVS Healthnow no. 4 in Fortune 500 list. I interviewed Lynch at the Lake Nona Impact Forum, where she laid out her vision for how her company will transform healthcare.
She certainly mustered the resources to do it. CVS Health includes stores of the same name, which can be found within five miles of 85% of Americans; health insurance giant Aetna; the Caremark pharmacy benefits manager; and if all goes well, two new businesses that Lynch has agreed to buy for a total of $18 billion — Signify, which provides assessment and home health care to millions of people each year, and Oak Street Health, which which operates 169 clinics in 21 states that provide health care and wellness for seniors. The goal of it all, Lynch told the Lake Nona crowd, is to make care more accessible and affordable, to make it simpler and to engage people more fully in the health care system.
Ellen McGirt and I also interviewed Lynch this week for our Leadership Next podcast, and you can hear her describe her vision by downloading from Apple OR Spotify. Some excerpts:
“One of the things I’ve learned over the past couple of years is that people are more focused on their health than they’ve ever been. People want to be connected to their health. They want to live longer. And the way you do that is through engagement.”
“What I want to do as a company is to think of CVS Health as your kind of place to go. I want to make it easy, I want to make it simple, and I want to make it affordable.”
By the way, CVS Health is Fortune’s presenting partner on Fortune Well, which you can read here. More news below.
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Alan Murray
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