It was this same year that Care Animal Hospital formed our Stress-Free Committee with representatives from all aspects of our hospital to open a conversation on how we could incorporate the concept of Fear Free into our clinical setting. “We don’t want our patients to be afraid of us and miss out on lifesaving health care” was the foundation for everything we did moving forward.
Our Stress-Free Committee took that training and became a vital resource in providing insight into the hospital design for our brand-new facility that opened in 2017 that boasts separate waiting areas for dogs and cats and offers Alternate Check-in Protocols for pets that do not do well with other pets.
After applying Fear Free principles to all of our hospital protocols and having all of our staff Fear Free Certified, we applied for Fear Free Practice Certification in 2019. Since then, we have been transforming lives one patient at a time, one pet parent at a time, and the results have been undeniable.
