What is aftercare costing your clinic?

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Care Connect does more than aftercare.

Take a look at the rest of the workflow your team would get back time on.

Start with clean information, not a phone chase.

New clients, referrals, and scheduled appointments enter the workflow with the context your team needs before anyone starts typing duplicate notes.

  • Branded intake links for new clients and referrals
  • Owner and patient details captured before staff intervention
  • Reviewable submissions that become usable clinic context
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Our data sources

These are the published sources backing the hidden costs of aftercare.

Sources

  1. Clients agreed with their clinician on only 68.9% of discharge information at discharge. The lowest-recall topics were medication adverse effects (29.0%), residual signs (35.8%), and confinement instructions (36.8%).

    Flegel T, et al. Client's understanding of instructions for small animals in a veterinary neurological referral center. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine, 2024

    Population: 151 dog and cat owners at a veterinary neurology referral center

  2. 47% of dog owners were noncompliant with prescribed medication, 30% missed oral doses, and 47% reported that nobody showed them how to administer it.

    Factors Associated with Medication Noncompliance in Dogs in New Zealand. Animals (Basel), 2024

    Population: 151 dog owners, cross-sectional survey, New Zealand

  3. Structured digital communication after discharge cut patient-initiated phone calls from a mean of 2.3 to 0.5 per patient (a 78% reduction, P = 0.004). The share of patients who called at all fell from 60% to 31%.

    Team-based digital communication reduced patient-initiated phone calls to the hospital and improved patient satisfaction after orthopedic surgery: a randomized controlled trial in 70 patients. Acta Orthopaedica, 2024

    Population: 70 orthopedic surgery patients, randomized controlled trial, Denmark

    Human medicine. Cited as evidence that the mechanism works, not as a veterinary result or a Care Connect outcome.

  4. Median pay for veterinarians was $125,510 per year in May 2024 — about $60 an hour across a 2,080-hour year.

    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024

    Population: United States, all veterinarians

  5. Median pay for veterinary technologists and technicians was $45,980 per year in May 2024 — about $22 an hour across a 2,080-hour year.

    U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024

    Population: United States, all veterinary technologists and technicians

See the workflow these numbers come from.

Care Connect turns the visit plan into aftercare clients actually follow, and shows you who needs attention at home.

No long-term contractsWorks alongside your existing PIMSEvery feature included