Emergency Vet Hours

 According to a Facebook post, Starting Jan 3 Striegel Animal Hospital will start emergency vet hours from 5 p.m. - midnight on Tuesday and Wednesday. Apparently those are the only times not covered by Lakeside Emergency.

Solid Rock Veterinary

 The Creekside vet facility on old Highway 13 has reopened quietly as Solid Rock Veterinary. Not much advertising and no website set up, just a Facebook page. However they are getting traffic as I have seen several vehicles parked in front of the facility when driving by the past week.

Creekside Vet

 Looks as if the Creekside vet building on Old Highway 13 has sold. The "For Sale" sign is good and a few vehicles were parked in front of it this afternoon.

Local Vets

Some organization named Alliance Animal Health has bought up four of the local veterinary clinics: Lakeside, Spears Animal Hospital, Central Hospital for Animals and Creekside. The selling point, so to speak, for the purchase was that Alliance would handle office operations, freeing up the vet to practice without having to worry about billing and business operations. Apparently the purchase of Creekside did not work out as the two vets working at the practice left soon after the change in ownership and Alliance was not able to find any replacements, so the practice shuttered and the building has been up for sale since the spring.

Vet Clinics

Heard that a number of vet clinics in southern Illinois have been purchased by the same corporation with the idea that the corporation would streamline back office procedures freeing up the veterinarians to focus on actual treatment. Anyone know if this is true?