Who Owns Your Practice Matters - COMPANION PLATFORM™

COMPANION PLATFORM™

The Companion Platform™ (Companion™), which is owned and operated by CARE for Pets,™ is a group of online tools that provide ownership transparency of veterinary practices operating throughout the United States — searchable online database. Our research reveals that the vast majority of corporate practices may purposely avoid corporate ownership identification and hide ownership. Most of our tools are currently only available for the state of Arizona, however the PLATFORM™ app provides nationwide data and will be expanding in 2025 as we add more hospital groups to this first-of-its-kind application.

WHO OWNS YOUR PRACTICE MATTERS™

VERIFIED™ (Arizona)
https://www.pets.care/verified/

VERIFIED™ is the first-of-its-kind and only veterinary practice ownership verification tool for the pet care industry. Most veterinary practices acquired by corporate consolidators often retain their original company name and may purposely avoid corporate ownership identification — hide ownership.

PLATFORM™ (Nationwide) — Expanding in 2025.
https://www.pets.care/platform/

PLATFORM™ is a searchable online database tool that tracks all acquisitions of veterinary consolidators in the United States – – view all individual practice locations that are owned and operated by name of hospital group. Several consolidators fail to publicly disclose practice acquisitions and may be hidden from both pet owners and or federal regulatory agencies.

IDENTITY™ (Arizona)
https://www.pets.care/identity/

IDENTITY,™ is a searchable online database tool that tracks changes of ownership of veterinary practices — the majority of independent practices are selling out to big corporations.

FIND™ (Arizona)
https://www.pets.care/find/

FIND™ is a veterinary practice directory of animal hospitals that provide emergency and or urgent care. Our research reveals that many general practices fail to clearly communicate their services on their practice website and may fail to disclose and or refer competing hospitals that are located nearby, in case of a pet emergency and or for after-hours care.

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Is Your ‘Local’ Animal Hospital Corporate-Owned? (October 2021)
https://www.pets.care/is-your-local-animal-hospital-corporate-owned/

First-of-its-kind study conducted by CARE for Pets™ reveals that the vast majority of non-branded corporate-owned veterinary practices in the state of Arizona failed to disclose the name of the corporation that owns, operates and or controls the animal hospital, on their individual practice website — may give a false appearance to pet owners that the practice is independent, locally owned and operated.