LogiCom and Partnership for Prescription Assistance

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LogiCom has been contracted to manage the Partnership for Prescription Assistance “Help is Here” Bus Tour. The tour officially kicked off in the nation’s capital on May 4, 2005 and is scheduled to visit all 48 contiguous states.

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance will help people without prescription coverage get the medications they need. Through the program, many will be able to obtain their prescription drugs for free or nearly free.

For more information on this exciting and worthy program, please visit: www.pparx.org

(The tour's chronology appears below.)

UPDATE: January 1, 2006

After 9 months, the PPA "Help is Here Express" has covered more than 50,000 miles. The hugely successful tour has been extended throughout 2006 and with a second bus now on the road, we will visit all 50 states between January and June of 2006.

UPDATE: June 1, 2006

Having joined the PPA's efforts as national spokesman for the tour in January, Montel Williams (TV host, author, actor, activist) makes regular appearances nationwide on behalf of the ongoing project in addition to having filmed a number of television commercials for the PPA.

He is pictured here at a recent Colorado event. The photo (right) was taken at a Montel event featuring both buses in Tampa, FL.

In addition to touring the continental U.S., PPA bus tours are also now planned for Alaska and Hawaii.

UPDATE: August 15, 2006

August was a landmark month for LogiCom and the PPA Bus Tour. Visiting Hawaii and Alaska marked the 49^th and 50^th states on the tour; logging more than 125,000 miles and visiting more than 500 U.S. cities to date. The tour, which is slated to run through December of 2007 continues to bring much needed assistance to those who cannot afford to pay for their prescription medicines.

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Crowds brave the weather in Anchorage as the PPA bus visits Alaska
for the first time.

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PPA bus tour sets up in Hawaii. At the PPA Fairbanks event, Ken Johnson, PhRMA Senior Vice President for Communications, mushes the 4-time Iditadod dog team from Martin Buser's Happy Trails kennel.

UPDATE: December 18, 2006

Nashville_BoB.jpg - 13871 Bytes The PPA “Help is Here” Bus Tour closed their 2006 campaign with a two-bus event featuring Montel Williams in Nashville, TN today. The gathering marked the 630^th city visited by the PPA tour in 2006. During this past year, more than $5.1 billion worth of medicines were provided to more than 2.5 million people through the Partnership. Plans for the PPA 2007 bus tour have been confirmed and both buses will once again be rolling all across America continuing to bring prescription assistance to those who need it most.

LogiCom is pleased indeed to serve in a continuing managerial role for this worthwhile endeavor.

UPDATE: June 12, 2007

The PPA Bus Tour continues to roll. In the past 25 months, the two big orange buses have traveled more than 200,000 miles (the equivalent of eight times around the globe) and visited more than 1,500 cities. The program has provided almost $10 billion worth of medicine to nearly 4 million people. Neither the partnership nor the bus tour shows any signs of slowing down as, on average, each bus visits 10 towns per week.

LogiCom continues to be very proud of our association with this very worthwhile project. The tour, which is slated to run through December of 2007 continues to bring much needed assistance to those who cannot afford to pay for their prescription medicines.

UPDATE: Spring 2009

On April 6^th, 2009, the PPA celebrated it's 4^th anniversary at an event in Galesburg, IL with Jerry Mathers, of television's "Leave it to Beaver" fame who is diabetic and serves as one of PPA's celebrity spokesmen.

The program has helped more than 5.7 million people since its introduction. With over 500,000 miles driven in all 50 states and an astounding number of patients being matched with programs to pay for their prescription medications, the PPA should cross the milestone of having helped 6 million people later this summer.

LogiCom is honored to play even a small role in this worthwhile endeavor, and continues to manage the nationwide bus tour on the PPA's behalf.

UPDATE: Fall 2009

Ken_BusBettis_sm.jpg - 25240 Bytes SMR_BusBettis_sm.jpg - 19728 Bytes On October 22^nd, The Partnership for Prescription Assistance reached the milestone of helping the 6 Millionth patient in the four years since the program's launch. The "Help is Here" bus tour has visited more than 3,000 cities and traveled in excess of 350,000 miles in its quest to reach all uninsured and under-insured Americans.

Today's event, held in Harrisburg, PA, featured one of the PPA's spokesmen, Pittsburgh Steeler great, Jerome "The Bus" Bettis (pictured with Ken Johnson, Senior VP, PhRMA, who has directed the PPA). LogiCom's Steve Robinson (photo right) has managed logistics and staffing for the 2-bus nationwide tour since the program's kick-off in April of 2005.

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