Specialties
We are a full service veterinary hospital seeing cats and dogs. We are there when your pet needs us. The General Practice is open 7 days a week. The new After Hour Urgent Care practice is open 5 days a week with extended hours from Friday through Tuesday from close of the general practice until 11 pm. This is a new and separate practice using our facility and will see all Urgent Care patients that do not require emergency treatment.
We are NOT open 24 hours nor do we have staff present 24 hours. We are not an emergency hospital but will see emergencies during our regular hours if needed. In these cases we may stabilize and ship to a 24 hour facility.
Visit our website to see a full listing of our services and feel free to shop our online store. We provide tours and education for 4H groups, high school students and adult students. We also offer student externships for veterinary students, veterinary assistants and veterinary technicians. It is our desire to provide our patients with exceptional care, compassion and respect. We take personal responsibility for directing patient care over time in partnership with their owners while offering the best possible service. We provide whole patient care which includes pets and educating their family (owners).
History
Established in 1984.
Adamson Veterinary Services and Urgent and Emergency Care center are two separate veterinary practices located in the same building, owned and operated by Dr. Vickey Brooks. As an army veteran, she knows the meaning of service to the community. Knowing the community needed an advanced veterinary hospital, she reinvented it into a multi-doctor, 21st century hospital offering wellness, sick, urgent and emergency care for dogs and cats. We have always been all about helping the community's pet so in 2015, we expanded the day practice hours to a full day on Saturday and Sunday, making us open 7 days a week. In 2018, we stopped offering our on-call services and replaced it with an after-hour urgent care center, that offers lower cost after-hour medical care. The after-hour urgent and emergency care is available from close of the day practice until midnight Friday through Tuesday. We are always growing and always looking for new ways to help the pets in our community.
Meet the Business Owner: Vickey B.
Dr. Brooks, the owner of Adamson Veterinary Services, has been in the veterinary industry for 15 years as a research biologist, licensed veterinary technician, hospital manager and veterinarian. Dr. Brooks has an eclectic background from chief cook and botte washer, military service, biology teacher, research scientist, veterinary technician and veterinarian. She received her bachelor's degree in biology and education from Mary Washington College in 1992 and worked as a research assistant. In 1994 she began her career as a veterinarian assistant and became a licensed veterinary technician in Maryland in 1996. At the tender age of 45, she returned to college and received her doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Ross University in 2003. She has lived all over the United States but came to settle in Salem in 2004.