South Carolia VETERINARIAN UPDATE SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF VETERINARIANS NEWSLETTER Advacig the Sciece ad Art of Veteriary Medicie Volume 13, Issue 3 Autum 2015 I This Issue... SCAV Holds Aual Coferece o Isle of Palms... 1 South Carolia s Historic Floodig Declared a Natural Disaster...2 South Carolia Prescriptio Moitorig Program Update...3 SCAV Member Is Presidet of Natioal Orgaizatio...4 AVMA summit highlights improvig veteriary ecoomics; idetifies key areas that eed attetio...4 SCAV Member Develops K9 Hadler Kit ad Trais SLED Officers How to Use It... 5 Oe Additioal Case of EEE i Kershaw Couty...5 War Dog Memorial Arrives i Columbia...6 I Memory...6 Advertisers... AVMA PLIT... 3 Douglas R. Hurlbert, Veteriary Architect... 4 Total Practice Solutios Group... 6 PNC Bak... 7 Simmos Veteriary Practice Sales... 8 SCAV Holds Aual Coferece o Isle of Palms Isle of Palms was the locatio for the 2015 SCAV Aual Coferece that featured more tha 20 hours of cotiuig educatio credit coverig a plethora of veteriary topics. I additio to a lively exhibit hall, this coferece also featured the associatio s aual meetig where awards were preseted to those who have doe great thigs for veteriary medicie. Doald Gamble, DVM, Named South Carolia Veteriaria of the Year The South Carolia Associatio of Veteriarias (SCAV) preseted Dr. Doald Gamble with the 2015 Veteriaria of the Year award at their aual coferece held October 18-21 at Wild Dues Charlesto s Islad Resort. The SCAV hoors Dr. Gamble for servig the SCAV, the commuity ad his fellow veteriarias i such a way as to exemplify the highest ideals of the professio. Dr. Gamble is a Erskie College ad Uiversity of Georgia College of Veteriary Medicie graduate who has bee servig his cliets ad their pets, SC Veteriarias, his church ad commuity, all while still beig a dedicated father ad husbad. He was employed i North Myrtle beach for 3 years before formig a partership ad creatig Oakbrook Veteriary Cliic ad Dorchester Veteriary Cliic. He has served i all the offices of the Tridet Veteriary Medical Associatio. Over the past three years, Dr. Gamble has bee ivaluable i the efforts to advace the SCAV s legislative ageda, beig a very strog force i the Charlesto area. He has served for six years o the board of the SC Veteriary Medical Examiers ad has bee the board s chairma. He has also served as the District Oe represetative from 2008 util the preset o the SCAV Board of Directors. Oe of the veteriarias who omiated him said, Oly those close to him kow of his hoorable ad cotiual efforts for the veteriary professio, for he will ever thik he has doe more tha ay other veteriaria dedicated to our woderful professio. Patricia Hill, DVM, Named South Carolia Distiguished Veteriaria of the Year The South Carolia Associatio of Veteriarias (SCAV) preseted Dr. Patricia Hill with the 2015 Distiguished Veteriaria of the Year award at their aual coferece held October 18-21 at Wild Dues Charlesto s Islad Resort. The SCAV hoors Dr. Hill for steadfastly The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 1 SCAV Newsletter.idd 1
servig the SC veteriary commuity quietly without askig for recogitio. After completig a udergraduate degree at NC State Uiversity, Dr. Hill fiished her veteriary degree i 1984 at the Uiversity of Georgia. She the moved to the upstate to serve aimals ad their owers. She became a practice ower at Fairview Poite Aimal Hospital ad the later Hillcrest Aimal Hospital for 23 years. She has bee presidet of the SCAV, the Blue Ridge Veteriary Medical Associatio, ad the Greater Greeville Medical Associatio. She served o the board of the Aimal Emergecy Cliic for 10 years, helpig with facility relocatios, ad was istrumetal i bledig the emergecy ad specialty practices i the upstate. Dr. Hill is curretly servig as the SCAV Legislative Chair ad has bee a drivig force i the last few years, tirelessly promotig legislatio for the beefit of both aimals ad veteriarias. The Uiversity of Georgia recogized her this year as the Distiguished Alumus Award Wier. Dr. Mary Keisler, SCAV Presidet, aouced the hoor at the Aual Busiess Meetig Lucheo held o Suday, October 18. South Carolia is very blessed to have may strog ad itelliget wome i its raks. Please help me i hoorig oe who truly stads out, the SCAV Distiguished Veteriaria of the Year, Dr. Patricia Hill. Ashley Fowler-Brady, LVT, Named South Carolia Licesed Veteriary Techicia of the Year The South Carolia Associatio of Veteriarias (SCAV) preseted Ashley Fowler-Brady with the 2015 Licesed Veteriary Techicia of the Year award at their aual coferece held October 18-21 at Wild Dues Charlesto s Islad Resort. Fowler-Brady graduated from Gaffey High School, atteded Lader Uiversity, ad the graduated from Tri-Couty Techical College i 2000. She the obtaied a bachelor s degree i Aimal Health techology ad Equie Sciece at Murray State Uiversity. Followig her educatio, she worked at The Uiversity of Teessee College of Veteriary Medicie as a surgery techicia before returig to the upstate of South Carolia to work at Creek Ru Veteriary Hospital. I 2007 she retured to Tri-Couty Techical College as the eveig coordiator for the Aimal Techology Program ad bega teachig several courses at the college. I her commuity, she iitiated a service learig program for rescue horses ad orgaized studets workig at the JD Massey horse show. She is a member of the Natioal Associatio of Veteriary Techicias i America ad the America Associatio of Equie Veteriary Techicias. Dr. Mary Keisler, SCAV Presidet, aouced the hoor at the Aual Busiess Meetig Lucheo held o Suday, October 18. For all her efforts to educate herself to be the best possible licesed veteriary techicia, ad her commitmet to educatig the ext geeratio of veteriary techicias, please help me i hoorig the 2015 Licesed Veteriary Techicia of the Year Ashley Fowler-Brady. Kare Cabaiss, Named South Carolia Veteriary Practice Employee of the Year The South Carolia Associatio of Veteriarias (SCAV) preseted Kare Cabaiss with the 2015 Veteriary Practice Employee of the Year award at their aual coferece held October 18-21 at Wild Dues Charlesto s Islad Resort. Cabaiss has bee the Practice Maager at Clevelad Park Aimal Hospital for 13 years. I 2014, she was a top 10 fialist for the DVM 360 Veteriary Ecoomics Practice Maager of the Year Award. She also had a article published i Firstlie magazie titled Buildig Hope out of Tragedy. It chroicled how their veteriary hospital respoded ad foud ways to chael their grief ito support ad actio whe they tragically lost three team members i three moths. Kare is curretly completig the coursework through Purdue Uiversity for a certified practice maager degree. She has show all this commitmet to the veteriary professio ad her practice while also raisig a family of 4 daughters. Dr. Be Phillips, who omiated Kare, says may woderful thigs about her, icludig how she metors their staff. He otes, She has fostered may employees, ad helped them grow ad become better at what they do. South Carolia s Historic Floodig Declared a Natural Disaster South Carolia Emergecy Maagemet declared a atural disaster i may South Carolia couties because of the persistet heavy rai ad resultig floodig that occurred i early October. Emergecy Preparedess Veteriaria for Clemso Uiversity Livestock Poultry Health (CULPH) Dr. Charlotte Krugler ad SCAV Emergecy Preparedess Committee Chair Dr. Kevi Elliott coordiated support of aimal ad agricultural eeds for this floodig evet. Over the course of two weeks, areas across the state experieced damagig floodig. Farms were flooded, farm ad compaio aimals were hurt ad displaced, ad busiesses ad homes were damaged. 2 The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 SCAV Newsletter.idd 2
Columbia aimal cliics experiecig extesive damage icluded Four Paws Aimal Hospital ad The Cat Cliic. Several cliics i Georgetow ad Myrtle Beach also experieced extesive floodig. As oe of the support agecies uder CULPH, SCAV assisted the State Emergecy Maagemet Divisio by recruitig voluteers ad solicitig supplies for areas where farm ad compaio aimals were affected by the floodig. I October 2014, SCAV worked with Dr. Krugler to establish the South Carolia Veteriary Reserve Corps. Those who joi the SCVRC will receive traiig to respod to both atural ad techological disasters. Add your ame to the growig umber of voluteers by visitig www.scav.org/resources/. South Carolia Prescriptio Moitorig Program Update The South Carolia Prescriptio Moitorig Program has moved to a ew vedor to provide prescriptio moitorig services for the state of South Carolia. The ew vedor is PMP AWARxE prescriptio moitorig program software, maitaied by Appriss. The SC PMP Data Submissio Dispeser Guide, available at the website at www.dhec.sc.gov/scripts explais the process to register ad trasmit data to Appriss. Registratio to submit data bega Moday, November 2 ad all must begi reportig to the ew system as of Friday, November 20, 2015. The last day you will be able to sed data to the HID system is Thursday, November 19, 2015. If you are curretly registered with Appriss as a Data Submitter for aother state, you DO NOT eed to re-register. Simply follow these three simple steps: 1. Log ito the PMP Clearighouse (https://pmpclearighouse. et). 2. Navigate to Accout->Multi State Approval. 3. Select from the list of states you wat to submit data to. a. A request is set to the PMP Admiistrator of selected state(s) for approval. b. Whe request has bee approved by the State s PMP Admiistrator, the status will tur gree. (It is yellow whe a request is pedig). If you have ay questios or cocers regardig how to make the chage, please cotact the ew vedor directly at 1-844-572-4767 (1-844-5SC-4PMP). Techical assistace is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Ay policy questios ca be directed to Tracie Paschall, Program Coordiator, at paschatm@dhec.sc.gov or Christie Frick at frickcj@ dhec.sc.gov. We ca also be reached at 803-896-0688. Protect your livelihood with all the right coverage through AVMA PLIT. We are the most trusted source of professioal, busiess ad persoal coverage for every stage of your career. our expertise is your stregth Workers Compesatio Busiess Property & Liability Employmet Practices Liability Umbrella Liability Commercial Auto Flood Data Breach Professioal Liability Veteriary Licese Defese Professioal Extesio (Aimal Bailee) Embryo & Seme Storage Coverage Safety & Risk Maagemet Resources Persoal Auto Homeowers Reters Persoal Excess (Umbrella) Liability For a coverage compariso of your etire isurace portfolio to the PLIT Program, call 800-228-PLIT (7548) or visit avmaplit.com The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 3 SCAV Newsletter.idd 3
SCAV Member Is Presidet of Natioal Orgaizatio Patty Scharko, SCAV member ad a veteriaria for Clemso s Livestock- Poultry Health ad Cooperative Extesio programs, will serve a two-year term as presidet of the America Associatio of Small Rumiat Practitioers (AASRP), which provides assistace to veteriarias who work with small rumiats: sheep, goats, camelids, elk, deer ad other related species. With more tha 1,000 members i the Uited States ad abroad, the associatio supports educatio, research ad traiig to promote health ad productivity of the small rumiat idustry. Fouded i 1968, it works with regulatory agecies, to further the professioal developmet of members ad to provide resources to elevate the stadards of small rumiat medicie. Scharko is a field ad extesio veteriaria based i Columbia who specializes i the productio, maagemet ad herd health of goats, sheep ad beef cattle. Her major activities iclude beef quality assurace, Scrapie eradicatio, biosecurity, ad FAMACHA/ parasite cotrol traiig i small rumiats. We re a orgaizatio for veteriarias ad professioals who wat to further their kowledge of small rumiats, build relatioships with peers aroud the world, ad provide the most curretly recommeded services ad products to cliets, Scharko said. This is a very challegig time i the field of aimal health ad I m excited for this opportuity. The ecoomic summit, held Oct. 21 i Chicago, showcased research coducted i 2015 by both the AVMA ad more tha 20 outside ecoomists, cotiuig a collaborative effort that is helpig the associatio gather iformatio ad data from a variety of sources, icludig its members. The summit updated all of the iformatio we ve gathered i the past ad preseted ew research from the AVMA ad those who are helpig us i our cotiuig efforts to fill the kowledge gaps that exist, Dicks said. We are buildig o the mometum we ve established, gatherig more iformatio that will help guide our research ad focus our efforts. Oe area where more iformatio is eeded focuses o how cosumer icome ad the price of veteriary care affect cosumer demad for veteriary services. We eed to get a better uderstadig of what drives ad motivates pet owers to seek veteriary care, Dicks said. Oce we get a better idea as to why ad how cosumers make decisios related to visitig the veteriaria ad selectig veteriary services, the better off we will be i helpig improve pet health ad addressig some of the ecoomic challeges we face. Whe it comes to practice profitability, Dicks ad other summit preseters all agreed that the professio has the opportuity ad the ability to icrease the demad for veteriary services. We ca icrease cliets ad patiets; we ca icrease services ad products; we ca icrease visits; ad we ca icrease compliace, Dicks said. Ad oe way to do that is for practices across the coutry, big or small, to collect cliet data through practice iformatio maagemet systems. This approach ca accurately measure cliets ad patiet umbers ad services used, it ca recapture iactive cliets ad it ca icrease ew cliets with the help of multiple marketig efforts. AVMA summit highlights improvig veteriary ecoomics; idetifies key areas that eed attetio Salaries are climbig. Employmet is strog. The debt-to-icome ratio for veteriary school graduates is holdig steady. All of this positive ecoomic ews was shared at the 2015 America Veteriary Medical Associatio (AVMA) Ecoomic Summit, paitig a picture of improved ecoomic idicators across the veteriary professio. The ecoomic state of the veteriary professio is improvig, said Michael Dicks, Ph.D., director of the AVMA Ecoomics Divisio. Overall, the veteriary professio is recoverig alog with the rest of the U.S. ecoomy, but we still have a ways to go. Specifically, veteriary startig salaries are up to a average of about $70,000. Uemploymet is at about 4 percet, the umber of applicats to available jobs has dropped to 1.5:1, ad the debt-toicome ratio of graduatig veteriary studets is hoverig right aroud 2:1. 4 The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 SCAV Newsletter.idd 4
Kowig their curret ad potetial cliet base ca help veteriarias better deal with may of today s ecoomic, fiacial ad social realities, Dicks said. Most people who visit the veteriaria are upper-middle ad upper-icome people, ad that s a serious cocer because that s oly 40 percet of the populatio, Dicks said. Veteriary spedig is discretioary spedig, ad we are i the process of tryig to determie where veteriarias fit i the discretioary spedig hierarchy. The icomes have t recovered adequately eough for the lower two-thirds of the populatio, ad we have to fid ways to reach those cliets who do t feel they ca afford to take their pets to the veteriaria. So what s ext? We re settig priorities as to what areas of research most eed our attetio, Dicks said. For istace, we are begiig to really dig deep ito learig why some practices are doig so well ad others are strugglig. We eed to look at what s happeig at these practices to determie why they are so successful. We have t bee focused o practices; we have bee focused o the markets. Now, we are turig our focus to the practices. The AVMA Ecoomics Divisio, the AVMA s Veteriary Ecoomics Strategy Committee ad its research parters will also place more attetio o the aalysis of cosumer demad characteristics, icludig how to provide affordable veteriary services without reducig stadards of care. Ad a ew focus will be placed o helpig ehace persoal fiacial educatio, from the veteriary school applicat to the idustry vetera with years of experiece. The good ews is that we are learig more every day ad gettig better iformatio that allows us to focus our resources to fix the problems ad address the challeges, Dicks said. We ca t fix thigs if we do t kow what s broke. SCAV Member Develops K9 Hadler Kit ad Trais SLED Officers How to Use It Dr. Rob Presley of Upstate Veteriary Service worked with North America Rescue (NAR) to develop a K9 medical kit for use by hadlers i the State of South Carolia. With my voluteer work with the South Carolia Law Eforcemet Divisio (SLED), Greeville Couty Sheriff s office ad several other agecies, I foud that the K9 hadlers i our state receive little to o traiig o how to care for their dogs i a tactical situatio. I fact, most hadlers do ot eve carry a medical kit to provide ay basic care for their dogs if a emergecy should arise. Obviously, if a dog is ijured i the field, ay delay i emergecy care could be life threateig, said Presley. Presley ad NAR re-desiged the expesive, large ad cumbersome K9 kit to produce a fial compact kit that could easily be wor o the hadler s tactical vest, without addig udue weight or bulk ad it costs less tha $125. The NAR K9 hadler kit simply eables hadlers to provide life-savig therapy for their dogs at the poit of ijury. It icludes products to specifically address commo issues see i workig dogs, icludig traumatic ijury, massive hemorrhage, gastric dilatio volvulus (GDV), ad heat stroke. Most importatly, each oe of these products i this kit is also accepted for use i humas, icludig the combat prove C-A-T touriquet. Therefore, we created a kit that ca be life savig for ot oly the dog, but also the hadler or ay other ijured perso, added Presley. At this time, South Carolia SLED has 21 dogs that are i active service. Ufortuately, oe of these hadlers have a medic kit to provide this potetially life -savig therapy to their dogs. To assist with the purchase of these kits, SCAV doated $1,000 toward this project. I additio to providig SLED with the kits, Dr. Presley will also coduct traiig classes for the hadler. Oe Additioal Case of EEE i Kershaw Couty The State Veteriaria s office received laboratory cofirmatio of oe (1) additioal case of EEE i Kershaw couty. The additioal cofirmed case of EEE icreases South Carolia s 2015 cout to 5. 2015 EEE Couty Summary (5) 1 EEE Barwell 1 EEE Georgetow 2 EEE Kershaw 1 EEE Williamsburg Please cotiue to educate horse owers ad promote the prevetative care for Arbovirus diseases. Both EEE ad WNV have a huma health sigificace ad cases ca be preveted through effective vacciatio ad mosquito maagemet strategies. Equie Vaccie recommedatioshttp://www.clemso.edu/public/lph/ahp/images/horsevaccies.pdf Neurologic diseases i horses iclude but ot limited to- Rabies, EEE, WNV, ad EHV-1. Please review Reportable Diseases i South Carolia list by both diagosis, suspicio, ad cliical sigs. The diseases ad cliical sigs listed are by law reportable the State Veteriaria s office withi 48 hours. The list ca be reviewed o our websitehttp://www.clemso.edu/public/lph/ahp/rep_disease.html Clemso Veteriary Diagostic Ceter(CVDC) cotiues to provide free testig for Easter Equie Ecephalitis (EEE) ad West Nile Virus (WNV) through a grat from DHEC. This grat provides limited fudig to perform surveillace testig for EEE ad WNV. I order to be eligible for the grat we eed samples submitted to Clemso Veteriary Diagostic Ceter with a CVDC submissio form ad the Equie CNS Reportable Disease Form completed. The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 5 SCAV Newsletter.idd 5
War Dog Memorial Arrives i Columbia Durig the last 15 years,vietam Vetera Johy Mayo has bee tryig to raise $130,000 to get a war dog moumet istalled at Veteras Memorial Park i Columbia, South Carolia. With less tha $20,000 to raise, his dream came to fruitio November 11 whe the broze sculpture was dedicated. The idea to hoor the war dogs was sparked after Mayo leared of some startlig military workig-dog statistics. He said that of the 4,000 dogs doated to the war effort i the late 60s ad early 70s, about 200 retured to the U.S. Mayo says some were killed i combat, but may were see as surplus equipmet ad euthaized. It was just the word equipmet that really got me, he said. The choppers, the weapos... those were the equipmet. The dogs were livig beigs that saved huma lives. TOTAL There were plety of times where, had they ot followed (their) isticts, it would have bee the ed for me, he said. Mayo worked as a ifatry dog hadler durig his time i Vietam, ad he still feels idebted to the aimals. Four years ago, he teamed up with St. Charles sculptor Reee Bemis to execute his visio. She came up with a 1,700-poud ifatry dog scout ad Germa shepherd that s about 1.5 times the size of a real dog. Art Castig of Illiois Ic. i Orego cast the sculpture last week, where Mayo picked it up for a atioal tour. The SCAV cotributed $1,000 toward the SC War Dog Memorial Fud. To doate to this fud, visit http://wardogmemorialfud.com/. I Memory Dr. Joh Athoy Malark, 56, of Mt. Pleasat, SC etered ito eteral rest with his family by his side o Suday, September 6, 2015. Malark completed his udergraduate ad graduate work at Michiga State Uiversity. I additio, he completed a large aimal itership at the Uiversity of Georgia ad a surgical residecy at the Uiversity of Florida. A SCAV member, Malark was the ower of Edisto Equie Cliic ad was the oly board certified equie surgeo i the state of SC. He was a very devoted husbad, father, so ad fried. PRACTICE SOLUTIONS GROUP Sellig or Buyig a Veteriary Practice Call o the... total Practice SolutioS GrouP TOTAL PRACTICE SOLUTIONS Veteriary Practice Sales & Appraisals GROUP 419.945.2408 Toll Free: 877.487.7765 South Carolia Represetatives George R. Sikora, DVM george@tpsgsales.com Joh P. Bryk, DVM joh@tpsgsales.com Bill R. Crak, DVM bill@tpsgsales.com Practice Sales Practice Valuatios Dr. Bill R. Crak Seller Represetatio Associate Buy-Is Dr. Joh P. Bryk Dr. George R. Sikora Buyer Represetatio Fiacial Assistace visit: www.totalpracticesolutiosgroup.com for more iformatio o services ad practices available Veteriary practice brokers focused o the fiacial success ad growth of fellow veteriary professioals. 6 The Veteriaria Update, Autum 2015 SCAV Newsletter.idd 6
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