Our Mission
Wellness Pharmacy was established in 2016 with the goal of offering patients compounding options in pharmaceutical care. Compounding is the art of preparing medications ‘from scratch’, individually for each particular patient. It is an essential option for patients when commercially available products are not appropriate. Whether it’s due to age, allergies or difficulties with a particular dosage form, many patients need to have their medications specially prepared for them.
At Wellness Pharmacy, our focus is your health and well-being. Whenever possible, we want to help you focus on addressing the root-cause of your health problem, instead of simply recommending another medication.
Our Goals
To offer patients the most appropriate pharmaceutical options needed.
To promote health and well-being in all our patients.
To promote awareness of lifestyle changes, nutrition and supplements when possible, which can make significant improvements in a patient’s quality of life.
At Wellness Pharmacy, our focus is your health and well-being. Whenever possible, we want to help you focus on addressing the root-cause of your health problem, instead of simply recommending another medication.
Meet Kayla Pham, PharmD.
I graduated from Creighton University in 2007. Like many pharmacists, I started working at a community pharmacy after graduation. After a few years, I realized that my practice was not professionally fulfilling. I was not happy sending patients home with 10-15 medications. I was frustrated by hearing patients say that they “wake up at 5am in order to fit in all of the prescribed medications a couple hours apart throughout the day, and not finishing until 7 o’clock in the evening”. This is not the life we want to live.
In 2016, I took a leap of faith and opened Wellness Pharmacy, with the goal of offering compounded medications to all patients---children, adults, even veterinary patients---for whom manufactured medications are not an effective option. That year, my daughter had some health issues that might have required surgery. As a pharmacist mom, I hoped to avoid the surgical option, and began to research other solutions. Within months, she was problem-free with a change in diet and the addition of nutritional supplements.
From then on, I was no longer a traditional pharmacist, simply recommending some new prescription medication. I set goals to continue to educate myself beyond what I was taught in pharmacy school. I committed to attend educational seminars every year, to keep up with training and knowledge, so I could help patients make the best choice for their health. I truly believe in the use of commercial medications because they do save lives. But much more, I believe in finding the root cause of health problems. And many times, nutrition, supplements and lifestyle modifications will solve many of the health problems we have.
Although I take on many roles throughout the day---a pharmacist, business owner, wife, mother of four children---my approach does not change. Everything I do, I do for a better you.