All animal shelters, whether municipal or nonprofit, strive for the best outcomes for as many animals as possible.  This webinar, the final part in a three-part series, will focus on how to apply The Association’s new Veterinary Services Best Practices as you work to increase live outcomes and maintain a financially sound organization.  In this webinar, we will explore:

• • How shelters with varying capacities can maintain a keen focus on outcomes while providing a high standard of veterinary care
• • Some of the financial implications of this best practice and ways to start quantifying the internal costs of care
• • Medical decision making based on the animal’s stage 
• • Placement options that are sensitive to length of stay and financial burden on the shelter while providing a continuum of care  
• • Strategies to manage post-placement medical concerns
• • Veterinarians and non-veterinarians partnering to achieving more

This webinar is especially for organizational Leaders such as veterinarians, shelter operations directors, CFO’s and executive directors who are responsible for balancing the best animal outcomes within their allocated budget.  

This webinar recording has been pre-approved for:

1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.
1 CE  by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for Texas Animal Control Officers

This webinar is based on the Provision of Veterinary Care in a Shelter Setting Best Practices and part of the Best Practices in Veterinary Care series.

Does your organization have routine processes in place for maintaining physical health and well-being for shelter animals? Veterinary protocols can streamline an animal’s path through the shelter, leading to a healthier population and faster adoptions. This webinar, the second part in a three-part series, will explain how you can apply The Association’s new Veterinary Services Best Practices, creating protocols at your organization that will:

• Increase collaboration between caregiving teams
• Improve shelter efficiencies
• Identify and create veterinary resources within your agency
• Help triage cases
• Develop legal guidelines

 You’ll also learn how to develop a record keeping system that captures critical behavioral and medical information. 

This webinar recording has been pre-approved for:

• 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.
• 1 CE  by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for Texas Animal Control Officers

This webinar is based on the Provision of Veterinary Care in a Shelter Setting Best Practices and part of the Best Practices in Veterinary Care series.

Each animal welfare organization has its own unique organizational structure that impacts how veterinary care is delivered to the animals. In order to have an effective program, roles and responsibilities must be clearly defined and communicated throughout the organization. This includes specifying how decisions regarding treatment, placement, and euthanasia are made. The organization must clearly define what level of authority the veterinarian has and what their relationship is with other staff.

This first session in the Veterinary Care in a Shelter Setting Best Practices series will discuss relationship building and maintenance, especially within the animal care team. Step by step, we will go through making veterinary decisions in a way that balances the needs of the individual animal, the shelter population, the community, and the organization’s resources. This webinar is especially for those who make placement decisions at animal welfare organizations based on the medical condition of the animals.  It is specifically targeted at veterinarians and those who work directly with veterinarians to help make these decisions.

This webinar recording has been pre-approved for:

• 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit.
• 1 CE  by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) for Texas Animal Control Officers

This webinar is based on the Provision of Veterinary Care in a Shelter Setting Best Practices and part of the Best Practices in Veterinary Care series.