Our new building "Just Like Home!"

Family Veterinary Clinic’s New Home is Now Open!

Crofton, Gambrills and Bowie, thank you for allowing us to serve you for twenty seven years. In that time we have been known as the vet clinic “in the house”, now it is our pleasure to introduce our new home. After much consideration for your ideas and concerns we believe that our new home will mix all of the “feel” that you have come to expect with all of the technology your loved ones deserve. The pictures say it all, a state of the art facility wrapped in the arms of a home. Enjoy!

Deconstruction!

Deconstruction!

We are happy to announce that deconstruction, of the old clinic, has started. After much consideration, we decided to donate the entire structure to two local entities, Second Chance of Baltimore and The Anne Arundel Volunteer Fire Department. Second Chance is a non-profit deconstruction and material retailer located near M&T Stadium in Baltimore Maryland. Their mantra is Retrain Reclaim and Renew. In the process of completely deconstructing and salvaging materials, from the building they provide career training to people who need a “Second Chance”.

Second Chance started their “skim” on Thursday the 6th. This is the preliminary removal of all salvageable goods, fixtures and finishes. After three days, they were ready to proceed with the first phase of complete deconstruction; they completely removed the left side. Next, it was the fire departments turn, for a day of training.

On February 13th, The Anne Arundel Volunteer Fire Department completed a day of hands on training. Smoke drills combined with search and rescue scenarios and ventilation techniques gave the department some rare “real-life” training. Finally, Second Chance took the stage again to complete their deconstruction of the remaining building.

It seems fitting that the “old” Family Veterinary Clinic, known for its intimacy and character and filled with memories, will not go to a landfill but instead will continue to enrich the lives of people, through training and maybe even a piece of her will show up under paws again.

Family Veterinary Clinic

Digital X-Rays at FVC

FVC Introduces the first Digital X-Ray in Local Area Clinics

When pets are injured or ill, getting a fast, accurate X-ray is often essential in developing a proper diagnosis and course of treatment. State-of-the-art digital X-ray machines, used in human medicine for 10 years, help facilitate expedited treatment. Family Veterinary Clinic is proud to be the only clinic in the area to now have such a device on-site and in operation. FVC recently installed a Fujifilm FCR XC-1 unit, which has now become the workhorse of our radiology area.

This new digital X-ray can produce images in seconds and does not require films to be developed. Since the unit is so fast, waiting times are reduced in general. In addition, if an animal has moved during an exposure the operator knows this quickly and can take another image right away.

In choosing this Fujifilm unit, speed was not the primary concern. The quality of the images was paramount to the veterinarians at FVC. The new digital X-ray takes very high-resolution digital images.
The images can be zoomed in and out, and other features such as contrast can be adjusted to improve the view to aid the veterinarian in diagnosis. The digital X-ray offers other features not available with conventional technologies, such as the enhancement of different sized tissues in the same image and the suppression of noise, providing unprecedented image clarity.

Record storage and retrieval has always been a chore in the vetrinary field. With this new digital X-ray unit, the image data can be saved and backed up, making it available to the FVC veterinarians for later use at the push of a button.