Grants Pass Community Veterinary Clinic exists because our founder spent nearly two decades inside the pet industry running an international pet relocation company and a customs brokerage — and watched private equity quietly buy up independent animal hospitals, strip out the things that made them good, and load up the doctors and techs who stayed.

She’s not a veterinarian. She’s a business owner who decided the fix wasn’t another corporate rollup — it was a clinic owned by one person, accountable to this town, with a Medical Director setting real clinical standards instead of a regional office setting a quota.

That’s still the whole plan.

Accessible, affordable care for Grants Pass pets, delivered by a team that isn’t burning out to hit someone else’s numbers.

We’re also building toward AAHA accreditation — not because we need a sticker for the website, but because that standard exists to hold a hospital accountable from the outside, and we want to be measured against it as we grow.

“We didn’t open  this clinic to build  a chain. We opened  it because every  other option in this  industry right now  is a chain — and  somebody had to  be the alternative.”

— Kari Mendoza, Owner