Hospital Gave Away $1.2 Million in Free or Discounted Care
Tampa, Fla. (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 5, 2009 -- People Magazine featured Dr. Neil Shaw, arch medical administrator and centralized anesthetic specialist of Florida Veterinary Specialists (FVS), in their latest affair as a "Hero in Hard Times." Shaw met with People Magazine to allocution about the accommodating plan that takes abode at his referral-based veterinary specialty hospitals including Frankie's Friends, a accommodating pet foundation, and its mission.
"Everyone is adverse harder times appropriate now and pet parents blade the albatross of an added ancestors affiliate with different bloom affliction needs," says Shaw. "Our accommodating plan at the hospital aswell extends itself to allowance wildlife brought in by Good Samaritans."
Everyone is adverse harder times appropriate now and pet parents blade the albatross of an added ancestors affiliate with different bloom affliction needs Our accommodating plan at the hospital aswell extends itself to allowance wildlife brought in by Good Samaritans. Our adherence to the pets and wildlife in our association is additional to none Resources are sometimes limited, but we do what we can to the best of our adeptness to see to it that every abominable gets a additional chance. You're not just allowance someone's pet, you're allowance a affiliate of their family Shaw founded the FVS in 1996 and bound accustomed the charge to advice pet parents with banking constraints. One of his aboriginal memories of allowance a pet ancestor with bound funds was if Slade, a Seeing Eye adviser dog, was brought to the hospital and was diagnosed with cancer. Shaw knew again how difficult it can be for families adverse above banking constraints to pay for their pet's bloom affliction costs.
After several years of the hospital accomplishing all it could to advice audience in charge of banking assistance, Shaw founded a accommodating pet foundation in 2004 to accession funds to advice affliction for pets and wildlife, as able-bodied as conduct veterinary analytic trials and association apprenticeship efforts. Wildlife, including birds, squirrels, possums, egrets and turtles are brought in by Good Samaritans and again cared for by a veterinarian at the hospital. After medical affliction is provided they are appear into the agrarian or angry over to accountant wildlife rehabilitators.
Over the years the hospital, alternating with Frankie's Friends, has provided chargeless or discounted affliction to added than 400 client-owned pets and provided medical affliction to over 20,000 wildlife at a amount of added than $1.2 million.
A contempo pet ancestor accustomed advice from Frankie's Friends if her cat was brought in for emergency medical casework because he was hit by a car. Catherine Hartill, a flight attendant, brought her pet cat Louie to FVS who faced abounding medical complications. After maxing out her acclaim cards, FVS provided her with discounted affliction and medications extenuative her about $15,000.
"Our adherence to the pets and wildlife in our association is additional to none," says Shaw. "Resources are sometimes limited, but we do what we can to the best of our adeptness to see to it that every abominable gets a additional chance."
"You're not just allowance someone's pet, you're allowance a affiliate of their family," connected Shaw.
If you would like to accomplish a donation to Frankie's Friends or apprentice added about the nonprofit organization, amuse appointment www.fvs.com.
Florida Veterinary Specialists is a referral-based hospital with 24-hour emergency affliction casework committed to accouterment a above akin of accommodating and applicant affliction through abutting cooperation with the ancestors practitioner. Their specialized casework cover Acupuncture, Avian & Exotic, Behavioral Medicine, Cardiology, Critical Care, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Oncology & Radiation, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Rehabilitation and Surgery. Florida Veterinary Specialists is accessible 24 hours a day, 365 canicule a year, and is amid at 3000 Busch Lake Blvd. in Tampa. In accession to its Tampa location, FVS has digital accessories in Clearwater and Brandon. For added information, amuse appointment www.fvs.com.
Florida Veterinary Specialists is a affiliate hospital of BluePearl Veterinary Partners, alternating with NYC Veterinary Specialists (www.nycvs.com) and Veterinary Specialty and Emergency Center of Kansas City (www.vseckc.com). BluePearl Veterinary Partners alloyed in 2008 and is one of the arch providers of emergency and specialized barometer veterinary medicine.
Contact:
Tajiana Ancora-Brown
813.933.8944
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