Veterinary medical center
Building a new veterinary medical center
The Phoenix Zoo is embarking on a significant public fundraising campaign to build a new 25,000 square foot medical center! The Zoo’s animal collection will continue to receive outstanding care from our veterinarians and animal care team in the new and improved facility, which will include advanced medical equipment and research space to lead us to the cutting edge of wildlife veterinary science and healthcare. The new space will provide large medical facilities with indoor viewing windows and digital screens to educate guests as they watch exams and procedures which may take place in real time. The Center will also contain classrooms and collaborative workspaces to train and motivate the wildlife veterinarians of tomorrow.
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The Phoenix Zoo in Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the largest nonprofit zoos in the U.S. We care for more than 3,000 animals representing almost 400 species, many of which are threatened or endangered.
Our Veterinary Medical Center is the heart of the Zoo. It is the place where animals receive amazing care from our veterinarians, veterinary technicians, and animal care staff.
The Veterinary Medical Center will push the limits of zoological medicine to increase knowledge and provide optimal care. The Zoo envisions a comprehensive center for veterinary medicine, where the Zoo’s animals will be treated with unparalleled expertise and compassion; a center of innovation where clinicians, scholars, and students collaborate to advance the health of animals, people, and the environment, and provide a center of clinical discovery where transformative research can take place.
A new veterinary medical center will allow us to deliver on all aspects of our mission in ways that right now we can only imagine.
The need for a new medical center is rooted in three key areas:
Space constraints
Acquisition of Advanced medical equipment
Education and Inspiration
Project Renderings
The new 25,000 square foot medical center is vital to our ability to advance the care of the animals we serve, educate and inspire our guests, and provide hands on experience to wildlife veterinarians and veterinary students. It will include advanced medical equipment and research space that will help take us to the cutting edge of wildlife veterinary science and healthcare. Updated and larger medical and surgical facilities will have windows and screens to allow guests to watch exams and procedures and be inspired. Classrooms and collaborative workspace will provide space to train and motivate the wildlife veterinarians of tomorrow.
It will ensure that we are once again at the leading edge of zoological medicine. It will be the foundation of the Phoenix Zoo’s future growth. A $25 million funding initiative will support this once-in-a-lifetime endeavor.
Our commitment
With a new medical center, we will continue to provide our animals with the best care possible into the future. Our ongoing commitment remains with training tomorrow’s veterinarians and inspiring our guests to more deeply care about animal stewardship and conservation. The following beliefs guide us:
Care and Conservation
Connection
Collaboration
The new medical center will:
- Accommodate the in-hospital care of larger species that we cannot currently hospitalize.
- Include and focus on the use of advanced medical equipment. The Phoenix Zoo will be one of the few zoo veterinary medical centers in the country to include a CT scanner. This advanced diagnostic imaging will greatly enhance our ability to diagnose and treat animal patients.
- Have digital radiography equipment, ultrasonography, endoscopy and advanced anesthesia monitoring.
- Include updated surgery, laboratory, treatment, examination and animal housing facilities.
- Feature large animal and environmentally-controlled quarantine space.
- Allow us to continue to train veterinarians in zoological medicine.
The new medical center will:
- Have multiple public viewing windows and will provide guests and student groups the opportunity to observe and experience first-hand the importance of veterinary medicine in a zoological setting.
- Showcase the Zoo’s exceptional veterinary care.
- Help shape the public’s understanding about conservation issues and zoological medicine and engage our guests to better understand the Zoo’s mission.
The new medical center will:
- Provide us with the space required to conduct scientific research.
- Continue teaching opportunities for visiting veterinary students and veterinarians.
- Allow us to continue our clinical teaching programs for veterinary students and graduate veterinarians interested in zoological medicine.
- Include collaborative space for medical rounds, discussion and preparation for medical procedures, ongoing scientific study, and reviewing scientific advancements and best practices in conservation medicine.
- Allow continued and enhanced support for conservation medicine working with species around the world.
Thank you to our Supporters!
The Phoenix Zoo is a non-profit organization that receives no government operating subsidy. We rely solely on earned income and philanthropic support. Of the $25 million campaign total, $2.2 million will be restricted to a permanent endowment to support operational and maintenance expenses of these new expanded projects.
For more information, contact Lorraine Frias at 602.914.4322.
Your financial commitment to help build a new veterinary medical center — the heart of the Zoo — will ensure that the Zoo’s impact on and importance to the future of our animals, our children and our world continue growing strong.
THANK YOU!
building a future
The Phoenix Zoo is excited to begin construction on the Veterinary Medical Center that will act as the heart of our organization. As a non-profit, we rely solely on your donations to make these improvements possible. We hope you are able to donate toward this important cause.
For more information, contact Lorraine Frias at 602.914.4322.
