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That really stinks. Why would things like a facility being rented by a non-veterinarian affect the care animals get there? It wouldn't, it sounds like some veterinarians got their nose out of joint about low-cost alternatives. I hope they can keep this from going through.
Not sure what the beef is. Saw only 2 parts that appears to be the complaints. The first was the ownership of a veterenarian practic and the second was the standars of veterinarian proactices.
The ownership is pretty standard anywhere although in this case the wording lends itself to confusion. If they are saying that a non profit can not operate as a group that provides vet services, the law is out of line,. But if (as I suspect), it saying that a non profit must have a seperate group within their organization that is conmpletely under the control of a licensed vet, thats perfectly fine and standardized in all medical fields. Hospitals are require to have a doctor as the person whos butt is on the line for anything medcial or procedural; a dental practice must have a dentist as the head, so a vet clinic must have a vet as the head honcho. I didn't read where it says a non profit can't operate a clinic, just that a licensed vet must be on the board. So like in private settings where a fior profit company owns a animal hospital or clinic and a licenesed vet must be on that governing board, they same is being applied to non profits as well.
As for the second part of the ownership of the clinic, parts of it are standard such as the list of all the things a licenesed vet must own or control. The basis of it is just a way to make sure that a non profit board isn;t making medical decissions about animals, that the board isn;t dictating the procedures to follow for providing medcial care, and to ensure that the non profit is in fact a sole provided of medical care and not a rental service that will also rent that clinic out to some meat processor to package deer meat, or to some doctor to perform tummy tucks when not being used for veternarian purposes. I think the wording is way too confusing and too wordy with legal and falutting tones that it goes beyond whats needed and thats why it reads the way it reads.
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