--- description: Find out why Walgreens was selected for the inaugural list title: TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2021: Walgreens image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6741fcdb41d79151/698a18ee8fd2ee81153627fd/walgreens-time100-companies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 26, 2021 # Walgreens Vaccinating the vulnerable by [Jamie Ducharme](/author/jamie-ducharme/) ## Jamie Ducharme Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.  Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens, speaks in Seattle, Washington on Mar. 20, 2019. Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens, speaks in Seattle, Washington on Mar. 20, 2019.Jason Redmond—AFP/Getty Images At the end of last year, 35,000 long-term-care facilities in the U.S. asked [Walgreens](https://time.com/5923186/covid-19-vaccine-long-term-care-facilities/ "undefined") for help vaccinating their uniquely vulnerable residents against COVID-19\. That task turned out to be just the beginning for the pharmacy chain, which, as of April 16, had administered more than 11.6 million vaccine doses in total, albeit not without some scheduling hiccups; it also partnered with [PayPal](https://time.com/collection/time100-companies/5953654/paypal/ "undefined") and Uber to offer funding for free rides to vaccination sites. In March, Walgreens reached a milestone of a different sort, when Rosalind “Roz” Brewerassumed the company’s top job and became the only Black woman to currently lead a _Fortune_ 500 company. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5957219/walgreens/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5957219/walgreens/"},"headline":"Walgreens","datePublished":"2021-04-26T21:29:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:49:14.302Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5957219/walgreens/","keywords":["Lists","franchise","TIME100 Companies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6741fcdb41d79151/698a18ee8fd2ee81153627fd/walgreens-time100-companies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jamie Ducharme","jobTitle":"Ducharme is a contributor to TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/jamie-ducharme/"}],"creator":"Jamie Ducharme","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6741fcdb41d79151/698a18ee8fd2ee81153627fd/walgreens-time100-companies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-companies/5957219/walgreens/","name":"Walgreens"}}]}] ```