Harvard, Hill’s, OkState, Chewy and LMU, Mars’ Patient Safety, Lifetime Cost of Care

First week of June, what’d you miss in vet med?

• Hill’s launches Microbiome Portal with Harvard
• Oklahoma State OK’s $250M for new hospital
• Chewy pledges $1M to LMU
• Mars studies patient safety events
• A call for more independence
• Synchrony reports on Lifetime Costs of Pets

Helpful links:

• The Bird Bath substack
• Frontiers - Making the case for a resurgent U.S. independent veterinary practice segment: a SWOT analysis
• The One Health Microbiome Resource
• AVMA Journals - Patient safety events cause harm across a variety of veterinary care settings: a global retrospective analysis
• Synchrony - Pet Lifetime of Care 2025

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