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Summer announcement:
Dear Valued Clients, Friends and Family,
I hope this finds you well - it’s time for a summer update here at Fillmore Veterinary Hospital. So far, 2024 is another busy year; plus it’s a year of changes. In our earlier update, I shared with you our transition to paperless electronic medical records. It is going reasonably well and I thank you for your patience during this 1-2 year transition!
Staffing updates: If you have been in over the past 6 months, there are new faces as we have lost people to military transfers, and folks going back to school. We continue to be blessed with new people!
Dr. Webb will be moving to Bozeman, Montana this summer with his loving wife who will be taking over the Montana Pet Dental and Surgery Clinic. Dr. Webb has been with us for 5-6 years and I thank him for his time of service here as a great general practitioner, in-house dental expert, and ultrasonographer. He recently has been on a sabbatical building hand-made acoustic guitars. You can stay tuned for the future release of Wildflower Guitars, LLC to see his beautiful creations. We will miss him, and I wish him well! Looking forward, we will be using a mobile service so we can continue to offer ultrasounds for our patients in his absence.
Dr. Karen Ricketts has also ended her time with us and is going in a new direction with her career at Polo Springs Veterinary Hospital. She has been here for about 8 years and I thank her for her years of service here as well. She and I have been friends and colleagues for over 30 years, and that friendship will continue.
For the “Dr. Karen patients”, we understand the relationship you have built with her and we will happily forward all medical records to Polo Springs if you wish to continue seeing Dr. Karen for your pets’ care! Any Dr. Karen clients that would like to stay with the Fillmore family, I am asking for patience as we doctors get up to speed on your pets’ medical conditions. Dr. Hensen, Dr. Lee, and myself will be working additional shifts until we can find another doctor to join us. Our appointment schedule continues to be close to, or completely, maxed out. As long as the “COVID generation” of pets are with us, and as local pet owners continue to leave corporate practices, our ability to take on new clients is difficult. Once our doctor situation stabilizes, we will revisit that issue; I hope by the fall of this year.
As many of you know, I went to a 3 day work week last summer. That change has been good for me personally, and while I will be working extra this summer, my intention is to stay with that schedule for at least a few more years.
I hope you all have a great summer and get out and enjoy the great outdoors here in Colorado!!
Thanks-
Dr. Cor
At Fillmore Veterinary Hospital, we treat your pets like the valued family members they are.