Not your mama's Acres North anymore.
When we first began visiting AN years ago, it was a fantastic place full of helpful, welcoming staff that obviously care about your animals. I'm not sure what's h... Read More
Not your mama's Acres North anymore.
When we first began visiting AN years ago, it was a fantastic place full of helpful, welcoming staff that obviously care about your animals. I'm not sure what's happened in the last year - new management, perhaps, and so many new staff - but this isn't the Acres North we've trusted for years and we won't be returning.
On our most recent visit, not only did they bring out the wrong patient notes and began trying to treat a different dog despite my protests, their newer vet, a Lindsay Mathre, seems to be interested in being the veterinary equivalent of Dr. House and wants to play with your dog's well-being to further her ends. Despite being warned that sedation almost caused the death of my dog - which she would have known had she bothered to check that she had the right patient notes or even read them at all - she ranted, railed, and blamed my unwillingness to have him sedated on a concern about cost rather than the health and safety of my dog. All of this was detailed in her barely literate, unprofessional, and snide patient notes when we requested our dog's health records to move to a less ham-fisted, bull-in-a-China-closet veterinarian, as well as a remark that we "internet diagnosed" his condition. Never mind that it was diagnosed by his previous vet at AN, who is apparently fleeing the entire state to get away from the caustic new environment at Acres North.
As if this weren't enough of a black smear on our previously fantastic experiences at AN, AN has recently decided to no longer accept walk ins, having performed some convoluted mental gymnastics to convince themselves that turning away people needing medical help for their animals is a better customer experience for them. Because of this, our close family friend was turned away this past week seeking end-of-life palliative care for their dog dying of kidney failure. Yes, you read that right - AN turned away a dying dog, refusing to see it without a prior appointment. There's your new "personalized" customer service for you.
I hate to be part of writing the eulogy of a formerly great, caring veterinary clinic, but if at least one person reads this and decides not to subject their animals to the life-threatening shenanigans at the new Acres North, then I can sleep more easily.
Edit as an afterwards:
You can hold on to the copy/pasted, generic response. The time for you to "provide exceptional and compassionate veterinary care" was when the animals needing help were in your office, not when you're trying to save face after being called out on your staff's behavior. Read Less