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The Dayton CARE Center on Clyo Road is under construction and will be opening in late September 2008. The emergency veterinary care center will be open 24 hours a day and seven days a week. The staff will include five emergency vets and 17-20 support staff. The facility will also feature transport to the Cincinnati CARE Center for special care and will be paperless. Monitors will display information and treatment plans for animals. Besides being more efficient, the paperless office will save storage space. Staff photo by Sara C. Tobias
DAYTON — The area's first 24-hour animal care hospital is opening in Centerville in late September.
Dayton CARE Center, 6594 Clyo Road, will give the region a round-the-clock animal hospital, said Doug Hoffman, a managing partner. Dayton CARE Center is a branch of Cincinnati Animal Referral and Emergency (CARE) Center.
Currently, Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic, 2714 Springboro Road West, provides the area's only after-hours animal emergency care. The practice is closed during the day.
Once open, Dayton CARE Center will be the Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic's closest, if not only competition for after-hours emergency pet care.
The Miami Valley Veterinary Medical Association's president, Heather Bailey, said she doubts that direct competition would be an issue.
"Our local vets have supported the Moraine emergency clinic for years and I anticipate that our local vets will still refer cases there for overnight care. Thankfully, Dayton is big enough to support two (clinics)," Bailey said.
Heidi Hill, hospital administrator for Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic, said the business has been a community resource for 30 years and anticipates 30 more.
"We are here when regular vets are closed. We consider ourselves an extension of the regular veterinarians practice," Hill said.
Hoffman did not call Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic direct competition.
"We looked at the DEC as someone we've worked with. But our feeling is that it's an older practice in an older area of town. We provide a little different services. (Dayton CARE Center) is designed for the more complicated cases," he said.
Some local veterinary clinics already refer customers to CARE Center's Cincinnati office.
Kelly Searles, practice manager at Bigger Road Veterinary Clinic, said she likes that pets won't have to be moved back to the family vet office each day since CARE Center will be open 24 hours.
This local referral practice is one of the reasons CARE Center decided to expand to the Dayton area, Hoffman said. Currently, about 10 percent of CARE Centers cases are referrals from Dayton-area vets.
Dayton CARE Center is slated to open Sept. 25, Hoffman said.
Dayton CARE Center will have five emergency veterinarians on a rotating basis. Complicated or unusual cases will be transported to Cincinnati, said Hoffman.
The Dayton office will employ five doctors and 17-20 staff members, Hoffman said. In contrast, the Cincinnati office has 19 doctors and about 90 support staff. Dayton Emergency Veterinary Clinic employs five physicians and is owned by local vets.
