"We're making shopping a healthy experience."

Please Note:

The Alzheimer's Support Group for November will be

moved to Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 7 p.m.

Walk-in for Flu Shots:

Monday through Saturday: 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. & 3 - 5 p.m.

Sunday: 1 - 5 p.m.

Printable monthly calendars:

October 2009

November 2009

Saturday, October 31, 2009

7:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.

American Heart Association® Masquerade March.

Join Destination Wellness for a walk around the Pittsburgh Mills Mall in support of the American Heart Association®. Ask your family, friends or co-workers to make a donation to support your participation and/or make a donation in honor or memory of a loved one with heart disease. Donation fund-raising packets will be available at Destination Wellness. Please call 724-274-5202 for more information or to register for this event. In the spirit of the season we are asking you to come dressed in costume. Please no floor-length gowns or masks.

Don't have a costume idea? Buy a Heart Walk Tee-shirt for $20 available at Destination Wellness. All proceeds benefit the American Heart Association®.

What is Destination Wellness?

Destination Wellness is a community health and wellness education resource center sponsored by Alle-Kiski Medical Center which is part of the West Penn Allegheny Health System. Destination Wellness, storefront #556 in Neighborhood 5 in the Pittsburgh Mills Mall is one of the few community-based outreach centers of its kind. Destination Wellness provides a variety of health-related activities, including blood drives three times per month, hot topic programming including classes on heart disease, diabetes, weight loss, and arthritis. Destination Wellness is open seven days a week to help meet your health inquiry needs.

Do you need to find a physician? Visit our friendly and courteous nurses and customer service staff that will assist you in finding the healthcare professional and services that will best suit your needs. Do you have health questions that you may forget to ask your doctor? Come in and visit our health resource library to find the answers. Do you want to learn more about health topics? Come in and sign up today for CPR classes, physician lectures, diabetes classes through the Joslin Center for Diabetes and other health-related activities.

Donate Blood at Destination Wellness

Did you know that you can donate blood at Destination Wellness and your donation will go to someone in the Alle-Kiski area? All the blood collected at the blood drives held at Destination Wellness go to the blood bank at Alle-Kiski Medical Center. By providing blood drives three times a month, we are helping to save lives in our immediate area. To find out when our next blood drives are click on the links below. We hope to see you help by donating the gift of life to someone in our area by donating blood!

October Blood Drives

AKMC's 4th Annual Health Fair Recap:

Alle-Kiski Medical Center and Destination Wellness organized their 4th annual Health Fair at the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills in Tarentum, PA on April 4, 2009. The health fair highlighted health and wellness experts from AKMC, local businesses, and organizations from the Alle-Kiski Valley. The event was a great success with over 70 vendors including one of the LifeFlight helicopters that participants were able to tour. Some of the highlights included a cooking demonstration and book signings by the host of QED Cooks, Chris Fennimore, a lecture titled "Outliving Your Diabetes - Different Paths to Achieving Health in Diabetes" by Richard Jackson, MD from the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and exercise demonstrations. There was also lots of fun for the kids including appearances from Clifford the Big Red Dog TM, Stuffee®, Professor MiGooch from the Children's Museum and the Pittsburgh Pirate Parrot!

Thank you for all the positive feedback and we look forward to next year's event.

AKMC Lab employee performs cholesterol and glucose screening

View to images of the 2009 Health Fair.

Make your destination…wellness. Visit Destination Wellness in Neighborhood 5, (#556), at the Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills. Call

724-274-5202 for more program/event details.