CVS Caremark Charitable Trust Awards Traumatic Loss Institute $500 Grant to Support Suicide Awareness

(May 28, 2010)

CVS Caremark and its private foundation have announced that Traumatic Loss Institute is a recipient of a 2010 CVS Caremark Volunteer Challenge Grant. This program provides CVS Caremark colleagues the opportunity to apply for funding to benefit the nonprofit organizations where they volunteer regularly.

These funds will help Traumatic Loss Institute provide program support to survivors and emergency responders who are affected by a preventable public-health tragedy, suicide.

About The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust

The CVS Caremark Charitable Trust, Inc. is a private foundation created by CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE:CVS). CVS Caremark is the nation's premier integrated pharmacy services provider, combining one of the nation's leading pharmaceutical service companies with the country's largest pharmacy chain. The Trust's mission is to provide funding for health care, education and community involvement initiatives in communities where CVS pharmacy stores are located. General information about CVS/Caremark is available through the Investor Relations portion of the Company's Web site at http://investor.cvs.com/ , or through the Web site's press room at www.cvs.com/pressroom .

About Traumatic Loss Institute

The Traumatic Loss Institute is a 501(c)3 public charity, as affirmed by the IRS, and is chartered to:

•  provide assistance to survivors of traumatic loss, such as friends and family members of those who have died from violence, neglect, injury, or suicide

•  conduct suicide prevention activities

•  provide expert consultation and training to public and private individuals in suicide risk identification and prevention/intervention

•  offer re-entry retreats to returning military combat soldiers and their families in order to assist with transition back to a normal and peaceful environment

•  undertake suicidology research and epidemiology

Support Suicide Awareness training for survivors and emergency responders at www.traumaticlossinstitute.com .