Animal Emergency Clinic of Rockford

06/06/2024

ANNOUNCEMENT

We are excited to announce that our clinic will be open 24 hours 7 days week.
Please call ahead so we can help you prepare for your visit.

08/12/2023

8.12.23 DAY CLOSURE: Due to staffing we will be closed to the public today until 6pm. If you have an animal emergency please reach out to your regular veterinarian if they are open this morning, or reach out to an alternate emergency clinic. We will open at 6pm and the receptionists will be ready to take your call at 5:30 tonight. We are sorry for the interruption in service.

07/29/2023

Our internet has experienced an outage. Our phones are down right now. If you have a pet at the clinic we will be reaching out. We have power and your pets are safe. We are working on getting our phones back up and running.

07/27/2023

Heat injury is no joke! Please keep your pets safe from the heat. Provide plenty of water, shade and breaks outside.
https://fb.watch/m1GyLU61WC/?mibextid=NnVzG8

06/29/2023

CLOSURE:
CLOSED Thursday 8am through Friday 6PM.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, we will be closed today, Thursday June 29 8am through Friday June 30 6pm. We will open at 6PM on Friday and be open 24 hours until next Friday. If you have an animal emergency please call the outlying emergency clinics for assistance. We are very sorry for this disruption in service and hope to resolve it quickly. Thank you for your understanding.

03/27/2023

Dr. Thrall did an interview about parvo virus. Please check your pets vaccine status and get up to date with your veterinarian. Remember the rabies vaccine!

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Dog owners need to be on the lookout for parvovirus, local animal experts warn, especially with the warmer season ahead. The parvovirus is extremely contagious and the sympt…

03/22/2023

You only have 10 more days to get 25% off our already affordable vaccines and vaccine packages at Spay Illinois for National Pet Vaccine Month. Your best options are our packages, which give your pet everything they need for puppy, kitten, annual cat and annual dog vaccines. We also have individual vaccine pricing on our website- https://www.spayillinois.org/vaccinations

Appointments are filling fast, so call today- 630-961-8000.

03/02/2023

The AEC is looking to add more urgent care time. With our current workload and staffing we are often required to limit incoming capacity to "critical only" or "full deferral" which is very frustrating for our staff and our clients.

We want to help everyone and have the facility to allow for this, however, we just do not have the staff.

This could be a great opportunity for a local doctor or technician interested in more exposure to ER medicine.

Our goal will be to have 2 doctors on most shifts and could often support 3 doctors, however, like most of our profession, we are short on staff. A benefit of having day time technicians work in the ER is they bring a skill set ER does not use as much and they can get extra exposure to ER and critical cases that are helpful in their normal practice...same goes for veterinarians.

A few technicians that wanted to work 2 shifts a month on Saturday or Sunday would make a huge difference in the wait times and even availability of if the clinic can accept patients on those super busy times. We typically have 3-5 technicians on during the weekend, so they would not be alone dealing with cases.

We have a building that is 10,000 square feet and now have the kinks ironed out.

The building has IDEXX labs in house, IDEXX digital radiology, SonoSite ultrasound, 2 surgery suites, 4 treatment tables, 8 exam/consult rooms, 3 anesthesia machines, state of the art anesthesia monitoring machines and in house blood bank make providing care efficient and easy.

STAFF PET kennel makes it easy to bring your dog to work.

Our record system was revamped recently with much more templating to allow for faster record writing and preparation of treatment sheets.

If you are a veterinary technician or veterinarian interested in the ER please contact us!

Kevin Thrall, DVM
Medical Director
Animal Emergency Clinic of Rockford

We have a new address! 7145 Spring Creek Rd, Rockford IL 61107 Our phone number will always be the same! 815-229-7791 Our goal at Animal Emergency Clinics of Rockford is to take the best possible care of our patients, clients and staff. With this strongly in our mind, during the Coronavirus-19 outbr...

01/05/2023

Hawkeye came in for his first blood donation today! He got an A+ for being a good boy today! Thank for helping save lives.

09/30/2022

CLOSURE: We will be closed tonight due to staffing. We will open at 8am Saturday morning. Please seek care at an emergency clinic outside the area if you have an animal emergency. We are very sorry for the inconvenience.

09/23/2022

CLOSURE: We are CLOSED tonight due to the doctor having COVID. We will open at 8 am on Saturday to help as many patients as our staff can handle. Please call ahead to help navigate this process. We are very sorry for this inconvenience.

There are emergency clinics in Janesville, Madison, Crystal Lake, Dundee, and multiple closer to the city.

08/23/2022

Herbie the Lovebug helped save a life by donating his blood to another feline in need! Herbie and the recipient both have a rare blood type (Feline type B) in cats seen in roughly 1% of the population. Transfusing a different blood type in this case could cause a potentially severe and fatal transfusion reaction. Luckily Herbie belongs to one of our Dr.'s here at AEC. He has had his eyes surgically removed due to medical reasons earlier in his life, but this doesn't stop him from seeing all the good he can do by helping us save other pets! Thank you Herbie! 🥰🐾

07/18/2022

We have wonderful news about our staff. Two employees had babies today! We are so happy for them, however, this does mean it will affect services for our clients. Even with local veterinarians picking up extra shifts and many part time veterinary technicians, receptionists and kennel attendants, we will not be able to see as many patients as we have been. We are working to see as many as possible.

This weekend all the other regional emergency hospitals were on diversion and we understand how stressful it is to not be able to get immediate care. Often doing drop off and consulting over the phone as clients will do with their primary veterinarian will be the least disruptive and stressful to pet owners. We are doing everything we can and pulling every resource we have to try and keep up the pace, thank you in advance for your understanding and compassion to our staff who are putting in extra time away from home to help cover the need.

06/05/2022

AEC is saddened to announce the loss of Dr. Dawn Thrall. She will always be remembered in our clinic as a feisty, caring, and dedicated doctor. As wonderful of doctor and fellow staff member she was, she was even more a fierce friend. We will miss her dearly. We appreciate the publics patience as Our staff takes time to grieve. We send Dr. Kevin Thrall and family our deepest sympathies and condolences.

Dawn Thrall DVM, 45, of Caledonia, IL, passed away peacefully, early Tuesday morning, May 31, 2022. Dawn was born September 27, 1976, the daughter of George and Lori (Swanson) Clausen. She married Kevin Thrall on May 30th, 1998 in Buffalo Grove.

06/05/2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: The clinic will be closed tomorrow, Sunday, due to a staff members’ funeral. This decision was not taken lightly. We are sorry for any inconvenience and appreciate your understanding during this difficult time. If you have an animal emergency, please call alternative emergency facility. We will reopen at the latest Monday at 8am.

05/07/2022

03/01/2022

COVID POLICY CHANGE:

We are excited to report we will be letting general clients back into the building. We have been letting the owner's of pets who are critical in to our consult rooms, however, our lobby will now be open.

As the area's only veterinary hospital that is open at night and weekends, we must continue to take extra precautions to keep our staff safe. We have had to close and have had to limit caseload due to staff illness. This effort is to keep staff from being required to quarantine due to exposure to COVID.

We will continue to follow the CDC and WCHD recommendations. As of writing this, that means when social distancing is not possible then masks are recommended. In our clinic this means we will require staff and clients to wear face masks for interactions. We feel this is a small sacrifice and hope that soon we can go back to the old normal.

We request that anyone who has had symptoms consistent with COVID or any unvaccinated person that has had exposure to someone with COVID within the last 5 days not enter our clinic. We can continue to do curbside care for your pet, however, please let us know the situation so that we can provide the appropriate protective equipment for our staff.

We appreciate your help to keep our staff safe. In return, our staff will also do their part to not expose our clients by not coming to work if feeling ill, checking temperature prior to work, and observing all quarantine and testing recommendations from the CDC if they are exposed to COVID.

02/22/2022

We need more blood donor dogs...see this news clip. Thank you WIFR
https://www.wifr.com/2022/02/22/finding-blood-donors-good-boys-girls/

Dogs must be more than 50 pounds to donate blood. Cats over 10 pounds.

01/10/2022

01/08/2022

01/08/2022

It is here! We are ready and the clinic is beautiful. Now if we could just get over all this COVID!

01/07/2022

We will open tonight at 6pm at our new location. Please call ahead as we are still short staffed, and due to the current covid situation, curbside. Please be patient with us as we settle in. Our new address is 7145 Spring Creek Rd. Rockford IL 61107

01/05/2022

It's moving day!
Here is a list of area Emergency Clinics if you are in need of emergency services.

ILLINOIS

VCA Aurora Animal Hospital 630-301-6100
Veterinary Specialty Center 847-459-7535
Premier Veterinary Group - Chicago 773-516-5800
Companion Animal Specialty & Emergency Hospital 815-479-9119
Dundee Animal Hospital 847-428-6114
Premier Veterinary Group - Grayslake 847-548-5300
Premier Veterinary Group - Orland Park 708-388-3771
Animal Care Center of Plainfield 815-436-8387
Golf Rose Animal Hospital 847-885-3344
Emergency Veterinary Services 630-584-7447

Wisconsin
Emergency Veterinary Services 630-584-7447
UW Madison 608-263-7600
Madison Vet Specialty 608-274-7772

01/05/2022

Please see this video about our new building!

We will be closed starting Wednesday 1/5/22 at 8a until Friday 1/7/22 at 6p.

Our new address is 7145 Spring Creek Rd, Rockford, IL 61107

Our phone number is staying the same 815-229-7791

We are so excited! This new building will really help to expedite care for our local pets.

Please share to let people know we will be closed the next couple days and moving to a new location.

https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/rockfords-24-7-emergency-vet-moving-to-bigger-better-facility/?fbclid=IwAR0wCj2inLe6snBOaSM8ATvgaGAobYBJH0EzEn4NjaRSQvHugH_pWlDfS8A

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — The “Forest City’s” only 24/7 emergency veterinarian clinic is moving to a bigger building. The Animal Emergency Clinic of Rockford will open its doo…

01/03/2022

Press Release
12/29/2021

The Animal Emergency Clinic of Rockford will be moving location from January 5th to 7th. This will cause disruption of emergency veterinary care in the greater Rockford area and all animals will need to be seen by other emergency clinic. This will require owners to drive their pets to Janesville, Madison, Crystal Lake or Aurora.

We want to help spread the word about the move so that people can know to bring their pets to a new location after January 7th, to be able to know about the service disruption and help alleviate stress.

The clinic will have directions to call other ERs along with phone numbers during the move dates. If during the day, then the owner should contact their veterinarian. If after hours, they should call the other ERs during this disruption of service.

The move is needed due to the overwhelming amount of veterinary emergency and long-term care cases seen along with significant space issues in our current 20-year-old building. The new building is nearly 10,000 square feet, has 6 exam rooms, one consultation room and 1 comfort room. It also has 2 surgery suites, 17 runs, a larger isolation ward, and very importantly with our current state of the world…a very large waiting room and all rooms will be large enough to accommodate social distancing with at least 1 owner pending the severity of COVID surgency.

The pandemic has taken a large toll on many aspects of our lives, and veterinary medicine is no exception long wait times, staff shortages and supply issues have been brutal. Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have nearly doubled out staff and have increased hours from night only to being open 24 hours a day except for the 10 hours on Friday from 8a to 6p.

The old address:
4236 Maray Drive, Rockford, IL, 61107

The new address:
7145 Spring Creek Rd, Rockford, IL 61107
Across from Francesco’s Restaurant near cross streets of Spring Creek Rd and Perryville Rd

Phone number remains the same: 815-229-7791

01/03/2022

Covid related staff shortages have struck again! Please be patient with the staff as they are working as hard as they are able with the case load they have. Please be prepared to find an alternative. It pains us to do so but we are only human and can only do what we can do. Thank you for your understanding .