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Veterinary Teaching Hospital Expansion

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Veterinary Teaching Hospital Expansion 

The Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH) at Virginia Tech provides the finest animal health care available, while building the future of the veterinary profession through hands-on training of residents, interns, and DVM students. Since the current small animal hospital was completed in 1987, it has seen incredible growth in cases due to the increased demands for veterinary services across the world. To address a critical need, the veterinary college has plans to launch an expansion and renovation of the VTH to create modern, world-class teaching and clinical research spaces that will advance knowledge through patient care. Your investment in the VTH expansion ensures an overall increased level of care for the community by increasing the number of patients we can help, shortening the wait time for hospital services, and improving the hospital environment. With the help of our community advocates and partners, this long-awaited project can be a reality by 2026. 
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Veterinarians not only support the health of our beloved pets and companions, but they also address major challenges such as food security, the transmission of diseases from animals to humans, and research into new therapies to fight cancer. A teaching hospital provides veterinary medical students with real life experiences and delivers hands-on work. It's where we train the future veterinarians we need. But the teaching hospital at the Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine was designed and built in 1987 and is reaching its limits. Our region's demand for veterinary services has increased rapidly and cases at the hospital have grown to over 14 thousand a year. The DVM student class size has also grown from 64 to 126. Veterinary medicine itself has changed in the last 40 years, as well as technology has advanced and is now used to provide a range of new solutions and treatment. Students like me are now studying in many more specialized fields include an anesthesia, cardiology, Dermatology, oncology, surgery, internal medicine, neurology, emergency and critical care, radiology, ophthalmology, and their EOG analogy. To provide students with hands-on learning in these specialty areas, you need the space to do it and we're just running out of space. The teaching hospital expansion and renovation will add 37 thousand square feet and provide necessary upgrades to the current facili