For the past 14 years he operated Grace Veterinary Clinic in Chatham in addition to pulling overnight shifts at the Animal Emergency Clinic. Minder has 33 years of experience as a veterinarian. "A lot of times things are so fast-paced that you have to make a decision on what to do at that moment and you always second-guess yourself because you just don't have time." "We just can't see as many pets as need to be seen, and it puts a lot of stress on the staff," Minder said.
That leaves locations like Five Star Veterinary and the Animal Emergency Clinic as the go-to places for people with concerns about their pets. "Most practices will leave blank maybe an hour in the morning and an hour in the afternoon but I know that those spots are always filled in the first half hour." "There are just not enough bodies to take care of pets," Minder said. McCullough is a traveling veterinarian who fills in at area practices where needed. Veterinarian Kristi McCullough and veterinary technician Kylie Badman examine a dog at Laketown Animal Hospital. That could leave 75 million pets without medical care in eight years, the report concluded. With an average of 2,500 graduates becoming veterinarians each year, that leaves a shortage of 15,000 veterinarians in eight years' time. The United States will need nearly 41,000 additional veterinarians and more than 133,000 more veterinary technicians by 2030, according to a recent Mars Veterinary Health report. "I think veterinary medicine was headed in that direction, but COVID accelerated everything." "Traditionally primary care veterinarians do emergency care, it was just getting to the point where people and pets were not able to get in because there was such a demand to be seen," Eigenbrod said.
"Appointments were booking out several weeks and there seemed to be a pretty big need for a daytime urgent care veterinary hospital." "We had seen in Springfield specifically that a lot of people were unable to get into primary care veterinary offices," Eigenbrod said. "All of the veterinarians around have started embracing us and sending us a lot of their clientele."Įrika Eigenbrod, D.V.M., is the other Five Star Veterinary partner.
"We have needed a referral hospital for a while and not many people have stepped up so we just decided to do it and it's really taken off," Kilty said.
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