Community & Industry
The Animal Care Center:
- Functions as a wellness center
- Promotes preventive medicine
- Focuses on client education
- Respects the importance of the human/animal bond
- Delivers quality patient care
Services provided
- Physical examinations
- Vaccinations
- Wellness counseling
- Routine procedures and lab tests
- Routine surgeries
- Dental care
- Radiographs
The Animal Care Center is a teaching facility and provides the opportunity for students to work alongside licensed technicians.
Students learn how to
- Properly care for patients
- Develop client communication skills
- Give medications
- Fill prescriptions accurately
- Follow doctor’s orders
- Restrain animals for examinations
- Perform various lab work, tests, procedures
- Prepare for radiographs
- Prep and Monitor the surgical patient
- Vaccinate animals
- Develop observation skills
Hours
All hours by appointment only
NO EMERGENCY SERVICE
Animal Emergency Hospitals:
Northeast Veterinary in Plains, PA: (570) 208-8877
Veterinary Referral & Emergency Center in Clarks Summit, PA:Â (570) 587-7777
Contact Us
Johnson College
Animal Care Center
3427 N. Main Ave.
Scranton PA. 18508
Phone: 570-702-8961
E-mail: animalcarecenter@johnson.edu
APPOINTMENTS REQUIRED
NO EMERGENCY SERVICES AVAILABLE.
