New Visions board member Darla Clark and Dr. Cody Faerber talk to Jason Williams on KVNU’s For the People on June 13, 2022

CACHE COUNTY — Senator Chris Wilson and others championed some funding through the state to get a new veterinarian school started at Utah State University.

At the same time, there’s a big veterinarian shortage, so the efforts at USU and the Bridgerland Technical College and other technical colleges will help quite a bit. In addition, New Visions Veterinary has proposed a school campus that incorporates housing and an animal hospital.

It would be independent of the USU school but resources could be shared.

On a recent KVNU For the People program, Dr Cody Faerber said the idea for this came about when he put forth a question to staff about 2 ½ years ago on what their perception was about the culture of veterinary medicine.

“And to my surprise, our staff gave me at least 20 negative things about the profession that I dedicated my whole life to, everything from toxic work environment and burn-out to compassion fatigue, all of these key words that seem to play in there. A lot of the veterinarians of my own staff were suffering from all of those types of things,” he explained.

To help train and put more veterinarians in to the field to ease the shortage and workload this school is proposed for the area around 2100 North and 400 East in North Logan.

Also on the program was board member and former Logan mayor Darla Clark, who said the planned campus would greatly benefit the valley.

“It is a big project, lots of money involved, but in the end, I think when it happens, this valley’s going to be blessed with what happens,”  said Clark.

Dr. Faerber said the New Visions Vet model has actually been in operation for two years already.

“We have been, we started the non-profit, the 5013-C, about two years ago in March, and just proceeded to kind of find relationships and partnerships that would help solve this cultural, or help us with this cultural revolution. One of our first groups that we reached out to was the county, actually through Sheriff Chad Jensen.”

He said they realized the county was building an adoption and shelter facility, which is close to completion this month.  Dr Faerber said they realized that they both have talents and resources, so they decided to partner together to help solve a county-wide problem.

So New Visions will join Cache County and be part of the medical and veterinary service and even the adoption part of the new facility

To find out more about what they offer and the proposed new campus visit NewVisionVet.org.



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