Animal hospital can't handle flood of patients, diverts ill pets to other facilities

Angell Animal Medical Center successful Jamaica Plain reported contiguous it had tally retired of capableness to grip immoderate caller patients and was diverting each but the implicit sickest to other facilities successful the area.

Angell says this isn't the archetypal clip it's had to bash this of late, and won't beryllium the last:

Due to the unprecedented measurement of patients and a nationwide veterinary staffing shortage, connected immoderate nights, the Angell Emergency & Critical Care (ECC) work successful Boston volition beryllium diverting caller exigency cases to different exigency oregon urgent attraction facilities from 7pm to 7am with the objection of patients experiencing an imminent, life-threatening aesculapian exigency (e.g., cardiac apprehension oregon trouble breathing).

We impulse clients to telephone 617-522-7282 earlier visiting our Angell Boston exigency country to corroborate patients are being admitted to the ECC service.