Fortune October 4, 2021
CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch took the No. 1 spot on Fortune‘s 2021 Most Powerful Women list.
The CEO who’s pledging to reshape the way health care is delivered in America is unveiling her biggest Big Idea yet.
On Feb. 1, Karen Lynch became the chief at CVS Health, the fourth-biggest company in the country—and the largest in health care, America’s biggest and in many ways most backward industry. She started fast with a daring gambit: putting CVS at the heart of the pandemic response, as a hub for COVID tests and vaccines. Tens of millions of people who visited their nearby CVS saw for the first time that they could also get a cholesterol screening or full...