MedVet Medical and Cancer Centers for Pets has acquired veterinary practices in Alabama and Kentucky, bringing it to eight specialty animal hospitals in four states – and it's not done. "We do have other markets we're looking at right now," President Eric Schertel said. MedVet will add specialists and expand services at both acquired practices, AA Small Animal Emergency Service in Lexington and Animal Emergency and Referral Center of Mobile. Both have buildings large enough to accommodate additional services. They've been renamed MedVet Lexington and MedVet Mobile. Both acquisitions grew out of existing referral relationships with veterinarians, Schertel said. Worthington-based MedVet has two Louisiana hospitals and wanted a closer specialty center for veterinarians farther east along the Gulf Coast, leading it to Mobile, while the Lexington practice had a relationship with MedVet's Cincinnati hospital. Over the past five years, Schertel said, "we've been approached by colleagues and referral partners (who) said 'We'd love to have a MedVet in our city.'"

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Lehmkuhl had led departments in the Worthington hospital since 2010. When the practice acquired a Hilliard location in 2013, she became regional medical director for Central Ohio. "She just has a perfect vision of our future in our medical practices," Schertel said. "It gives me an opportunity to focus on building a business infrastructure. We put together an incredible business team to not 'lead,' but support all our practices." Veterinarians Stephen Pinkston, the Lexington hospital administrator, and Christopher Mau, managing partner in Mobile, left after the acquisitions. Brian Bufkin transferred from MedVet Mandeville in Louisiana, where he was lead surgeon, to start and head a surgery practice in MedVet Mobile. Carrie Ghose covers health care, startups and technology for Columbus Business First.Southern California Siamese Rescue was born early in 2005, when we decided to divide California Siamese Rescue (CASR) into 2 separate, but closely aligned groups. CASR was extremely successful, but California is a very large state but after much thought, we felt we could provide more and better service to the cats and kittens we rescue if we became two groups.

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