The East Bay SPCA has launched a telemedicine service available to all California residents for a variety of services like consultations and accessing certain prescriptions.
Appointments can be made for prescriptions for preventive treatments such as flea, tick and heartworm medication, and special medication needs for holidays or stressful events. Pets adopted from East Bay SPCA that were on prescriptions can have them extended with a telehealth appointment.
Consultations for pets with anxiety prior to an in-person vet visit can be scheduled, as well as consultations for pets enrolled in the East Bay SPCA’s training services that need medication for anxiety.
The telehealth service is being run through the Oakland-based Theodore B. Travers Family Veterinary Clinic.
Kristen Beitzel, Vice President of Medical Services at East Bay SPCA, said in a statement that the service has already helped reduce stress in pets and their owners that have used it.
“Thanks to our new telemedicine program, we have been able to increase access to care and decrease fear and stress felt by pets and their people when coming to a veterinary clinic,” Beitzel said.
Appointments are available Monday through Friday. The patient must be in California when the appointment takes place.
To schedule an appointment, call (510) 569-1606. More information is available online at eastbayspca.org.
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How is the SPCAs services funded? Our taxes? If it is I think it should be funded by animal / pet owners and not the general population…. seems like pets are getting better care than some people these days….
Is SPCA services funded by our taxes? Then I think it should be born by animal / pet owners not the general population. It seems like pets are getting the same or better health care lately than people.