The Walgreens Take Care Health Tour is on a 300-city, 12-month
nationwide health screening tour that features 10 customized traveling
education and health-screening vehicles. The program will travel more
than 240,000 miles to offer six free screenings:
- Total Cholesterol Levels
- Blood Pressure
- Bone Density
- Glucose Levels
- Waist Circumference
- Body Mass Index
These services are worth more than $115 in value and no appointment is necessary.
The tour aims to bring free screening services and better health
awareness to local communities throughout the United States and Puerto
Rico. Many diseases can be detected through screenings long before any
symptoms are noticed, making awareness the key to remaining healthy.
Melissa recently wrote that she had gone and done the free health screenings. She said:
The whole thing took about 10
minutes. When you finish, you get a bag of samples and coupons. Mine came
with various health product coupons (Tylenol, Benadryl, Viactive) plus travel
size toothpaste (Sensodyne) Boost drink, Tylenol Packets, and more. Not bad for 10 minutes of my time!
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Do you know what is involved in each screening? And is there a way to do some of the screenings, but not all of them?
The bus is set up in 3 different booths plus a waiting area. First a girl got blood from my finger. The next booth the girl measure my waist, took blood pressure and had me hold a wheel looking thing. Last booth you put your foot in a machine to measure your bone density. I would guess they would let you skip some parts. Nancy
I wonder why they are only going to Orlando in Florida? We have Walgreens stores on every corner from Key West to Tallahassee!
The tests were simple, I would assume that you could opt out of any you didn’t feel comfortable with. When I went, it was like this:
Step into the first little part and the gentleman did a fingerstick (painless) to get my blood glucose and my cholesterol. Get a bandaid.
Step into the second little area, and they did Blood Pressure reading, when I was finished she did BMI & Body Fat Percentage (I’ve done this at the gym before, you just stand with your arms out and hold this little device, and they measure your waist as well)
Step into the last section – you remove a shoe and place your foot in this ultrasound machine for your Bone Density.
Then they print out your results on a sticker and send you back out to the front, where someone explains what is what to you and gives you a bag of goodies.
Interesting schedule – they’ve have a bazillion stops in Delaware, none in Maryland and very, very few in Pennsylvania – whatever!
none in ny or nj…aww man!
…and NONE in Missouri!
Thanks for sharing this! They were in my town yesterday, and because I saw it on the blog, I stopped and got the tests plus all the free coupons and samples! It was really easy and quick! Thank you!
I’m a Nurse Practitioner at a Take Care Clinic, and love the concept of our clinic. It may be that they were only stopping at present or future sites of clinics – I’m not sure. But I do know that at $59-74 per visit (if you don’t have insurance), our clinics are a good deal for health care.
Thanks for your blog – I’m learning a lot about couponing and saving money!!
The screenings offered by Walgreen’s and other health fairs are an excellent opportunity for people to receive preventive health screenings at little to no cost. Unfortunately, these screenings are not available everywhere. There are also FDA-approved home tests for a variety of diseases that are available at some pharmacies and online home health screening companies. These home tests can be an affordable alternative especially for the increasing numbers on uninsured and under-insured.