Frankford Animal Clinic

01/09/2024

Sending sweet Izabel our love as she under goes surgery. ❤️

01/08/2024

Little Kingston…. He’s 4.5 months old and 18 lbs. He loves the vet and anyone who will give him treats. He spends his days beating up we**ie dogs and playing with his 85 lb pit bull best friend!

03/31/2023

Happy Doctors Day!

01/12/2022

Puppies….. 🥰

01/10/2022

10/01/2020

Hello everyone,

It has been quite a while since my last update. I apologize for the delay. During this pandemic, it has been an up and down ride for all of us, I am sure. At the height of the summer spike it was difficult to keep the clinic fully staffed. Anytime someone got sick they would get tested and had to stay away from work until they had a negative test. At one point I only had 1 employee. Thank goodness my wife was able to give us a hand.
For the past month we have been stable. Everyone has been healthy and working.

I know the state of Florida has moved into the phase 3 of reopening. I usually like to wait a week or two to see if there are any spikes before I make any personal decisions.

That being said, I feel safe enough that we can reopen starting next week October 5th.
What does this mean? Well, we will still offer curbside service to those with co-morbidities and those who would prefer it.

Folks who would like to enter the building can but only with a mask and that mask MUST STAY ON THE ENTIRE TIME (even when you are alone in the room). We will still have the lobby closed. So when you arrive just call us like usual and we will es**rt you and your pet in the side door and bring you into the exam room. LIMIT TO 2 PEOPLE IN A ROOM. I would prefer only 1 person per appointment as our exam rooms make it almost impossible to properly social distance. But I am okay with 2 people if absolutely necessary. We are still taking this virus very seriously. When you are in the exam room please remain seated on the bench so we are able to maintain social distancing.

I know this has been a big inconvenience for everyone, but I am thankful for you all for your understanding and cooperation. You guys have been tremendous.

Another update. We stopped boarding early on because of staffing issues and quarantine issues. I am still going to wait to see what the next month brings us. But if all is well, I will restart boarding on November 2nd. YAY!! JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!!

The only change in our policy is that we will no longer be offering Sunday pick-up. So if you are leaving on a Thursday and coming back on a Sunday you will be able to pick up your pet on Monday.

I hope this comes as good news to all of you. Please keep in mind, we don't know what is going to happen with this virus now that everything is back open, the winter and flu is near, etc......so we may (hopefully not) have to return to strictly curbside service.

Thanks again for your wonderful understanding. I have heard from so many of my other veterinary collegues around the state and country about clients being upset about their protocols. I have been so lucky and blessed to have clients like you that appreciate what I am doing and adapt to changes very well. You have made this easy for me and I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

Sincerely
Dr Gillespie

09/15/2020

We will be closing early today due to inclement weather conditions. Thank you for understanding!

05/21/2020

Hello everyone. Just a quick update. We are still doing curbside service for at risk clients (if you prefer) for the COVID issue. However, we are letting people into the clinic, one at a time if you would like. The lobby is still closed.

Curbside service worked wonderfully, and all of you were very understanding and took the change like champs. However, I am missing the normalcy and it looks like things are slowing down in the COVID world....so I'd like to slowly try to return to normal operations. Key word "slowly" LOL.

When you arrive, please call the office and we will es**rt you in through the side door and show you to the exam room. When you arrive in the exam room, please observe the recommended social distancing protocols (wear a mask, no hand shaking, and this is a hard one for me....no hugging). Since our exam rooms are fairly small, I will ask that you stay seated on the bench while my techs do their thing and while I perform my exam, discuss treatment options, etc from the other side of the room. I know that we all are going to break protocol here and there, and that's fine. I welcome everyone to wash their hands in the exam room if you feel like doing so.

I am excited to have face-to-face time, finally, with all of you. But let's keep the social distancing rules in place until this thing settles a bit more. If you would like to come in the office, I would love that. The main requirement will be that you have to be wearing a mask, or some covering around your face and nose. Home-made or just anything to reduce droplet spread. If you are still concerned with COVID and you have preexisting conditions that would make things worse, I am still happy to offer curbside service (and would prefer it in this case) to protect your safety.

I know it has been a tough time for everyone and I pray that all of you are doing well. These may seem like strict measures and I am sorry for that. I, personally, am not worried about contracting COVID for a health standpoint. But if I do contract it, I will have to close the practice down until I recover and test negative (at least 2-weeks). I don't think anyone wants that (especially my wife, I don't know what she would do if she was stuck at home with me for 2 weeks solid, LOL).

I am getting excited to get things back to normal. Thank you for being good sports about all of this and just bear with us for just a little while longer. I love all of you guys, and as always my prayers are with you and your pets.

Sincerely,

Dr. Gillespie

P.s. PPEs are still in very short supply. So sterile gloves and exam gloves (and masks) are getting very hard to come by. Drug shortages are a concern too. Just today, I found out I cannot get 4 commonly used drugs including anesthetic drugs. That really puts me in a bind. I am working on a solution, but please bear with me if I am out of a particular drug. The whole supply chain has really been strained because of this and we are starting to feel it with important drugs.

03/18/2020

Hello everyone,

I am sure everyone is at least a little bit on edge with this COVID-19 virus. After much discussion here at the clinic we have devised a plan of action that is hopefully for the best of us personally, our clients and patients, and our community.
I know a lot of people out there are panicking (trust me I can't find a roll of toilet paper in this whole gosh darned town....however every store has tons of supply of Kleenex....how do you explain that for a respiratory virus, kind of ironic, right?). I definitely don't want to panic but I do want to temporarily implement the following plans with the hopes of being a good steward to our community. It may be a bit inconvenient for some and I am sorry.
So, I know you must be thinking right now, "get on with it Dr. G." Okay, here it is. From this point forward for at least the next week or two we will be providing "curb service." I have found that in the past two days it is impossible to practice adequate social distancing with the client in the exam room with the pet. Even if I am successful in avoiding a handshake (very hard for me to do btw...I'm a hugger and handshaker extraordinaire) Inevitably, you and I will be within inches of each other and probably make hand-to-hand contact. I see around 30 patients daily. You can see how this adds up and the risk it entails.
I will have my staff wait for you as you pull into the parking lot for your appointment. They will then gather your pet and take a history outside. We will then bring your pet inside and perform all necessary diagnostics, exams and treatments. I or one of my staff will call you on the telephone (if you don't have a phone, we can discuss treatment plans and options outside as you wait in your car). We can also take payments outside as well on our mobile devices.
If you only need to pick up a medication, again my staff will meet you in the parking lot as you wait in your car. Just think of this as curbside service 🙂 You don't see that very often these days.
Please, if noone meets you in the parking lot right away, call the office and let us know you are outside and waiting.
I am doing this in the hopes of not having to shut down the practice. I will be of no help to anyone if that happens. Please bear with us during this time. We may have a few hiccups here and there but I hope this works to everyone's advantage.
Thank you to all my wonderful clients for your understanding in this uncharted time.

Sincerely,
Dr. Gillespie

02/26/2020

Salty Dog Day in St. Andrews is this Saturday. Bring the fur babies and come join the fun! A special THANK YOU to all of our Salty Dog Day sponsors! We could do it without you!

10/01/2019

You can tell the dog planned this