Primary Veterinary Care for Dogs and Cats
From puppies and kittens to senior dogs and cats, our compassionate team of clinical faculty, registered veterinary technicians, vet assistants and senior veterinary students provide the full spectrum of care to meet your needs and those of your pets.
As part of the Ohio State University Veterinary Medical Center, the Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic provides comprehensive care to our patients – including daytime primary, urgent and emergency care - for dogs and cats in a state-of-the-art teaching facility.
In this section
Service Highlights
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Adult & Geriatric Care
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Wellness Visits
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Sick Visits
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Vaccines & Health Testing
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Dental Care
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Kitten Care
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Puppy Care
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Nutrition
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Diagnostic Testing
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Care for Chronic Conditions
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Spay & Neuter Surgery
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Microchipping & ID
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Behavioral Consulting
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End of Life Care & Counseling
Clinic Features
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Senior veterinary student-led, faculty supervised clinical teams
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Full dental and general surgery suites
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Separate entrance, exam and quiet treatment rooms for anxious/skittish pets
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Cat-friendly practice with separate feline waiting room, patient ward, and exam rooms
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On premise diagnostic imaging, lab, medical dispensary
What to Expect
As you enter the Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic you and your pet will be welcomed by our customer liaisons who will assist with getting your pet registered and guide you to an exam room. You will then be greeted by a graduating veterinary student who will discuss you pet's history and reason for your visit. The graduating veterinary student will serve as your pet's care team lead, supported by a faculty clinician, registered veterinary technicians - who provide nursing care, and veterinary assistants.
While the facility is new, the approach to providing full spectrum care has always been a part of our community practice. Now, however, we are able to provide graduating students a greater opportunity to gain real time experience as care lead, under the watchful eye of their faculty coaches. After taking your pet's history and discussing the purpose of your visit, the graduating student will determine and discuss a course of treatment and diagnostic plan (if applicable) with you. From there the student, together with the faculty coach, will implement the treatment plan and conduct any necessary diagnostic testing, determine a diagnosis, then meet with you to discuss the plan of care and next steps.
As a teaching facility, all of our exam rooms are equipped with state-of-the-art audio and visual equipment to allow faculty clinicians, serving as coaches, to observe graduating veterinary students via two-way mirrors, while situated in an observation room adjacent to the exam room. The audio and visual capture is later shared with the students to help improve their approach and oversight of cases in support of our teaching mission. Please note, we will only record the visit with your permission.
All initial diagnostic testing is done on site within the Spectrum of Care Clinic. As you would expect from a primary care facility, we also have digital imaging, anesthesia service, surgical and dental suites on premise. Should it be determined that a veterinary specialist see your pet, we will help facilitate a referral to the appropriate service within Ohio State's Veterinary Medical Center and assist with appointment setting.
What is Veterinary Spectrum of Care?
The Frank Stanton Veterinary Spectrum of Care Clinic provides a hands-on, real world working veterinary practice environment for graduating senior veterinary school students. The students serve as care lead, with support from faculty clinicians and veterinary technicians, working directly with you and your pet. Upon receiving their doctor of veterinary medicine degree (DVM), graduating students will become veterinarians who understand and embrace their role in providing veterinary care across a broad socioeconomic continuum, involving the entire spectrum of care, and who will have developed cultural competencies, social awareness, and civic responsibility to animals and people in need.
Frank Stanton and The Stanton Foundation
Frank Stanton was born in Muskegon, Michigan on March 20, 1908. Stanton grew up in Dayton, Ohio, and attended Ohio Wesleyan University as a pre-medical student. He put himself through college by working in the advertising department of a Dayton retailer.
He graduated from Wesleyan with a BA in 1930 and taught typography for a year at a trade school before accepting an offer from Ohio State to teach psychology. He received both a master’s (’32) and PhD (’35) in psychology and an honorary doctorate (’49) in law from Ohio State. He married the former Ruth Stephenson in 1931; she died in 1992.
An avid lover of dogs, Stanton was president of CBS from 1946 until 1971, and was a major innovator of mass-media practices and programming innovations, initiating the modern presidential debate with John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1959.
We always have a great experience at the Spectrum of Care Clinic! Everyone on the staff genuinely cares about the health of the animals, and I never have any doubts that my dog is in the best hands. They have been extremely accommodating for serious last minute visits, and I have never felt like they’ve asked to do anything unnecessary or too expensive for the scenario at hand. Kash actually starts whining in the car when he sees where we are at in excitement for his welcome crew in the lobby!
Care Team
Joanne (Jo) Fleming
Skylar Kain
Janie McCarthy
Brittany Ruff
Kirsten Stratton
Kevin Beckley
Hope Bennett
Briana Buckley
Alexis Collins
Amanda Himes
Eva List
