Cresco Veterinary Clinic

10/26/2025

05/22/2025

Building for sale in Cresco, IA
Total area of building: 5,940 square feet
Garage space/shop area: 2,880 square feet
Indoor space: 3,060 square feet
Site area: 1.81 acres
Zoned commercial, concrete slab with frost free footings.
If interested, call the Harmony Veterinary Clinic at 507-886-6321

02/14/2025

Greetings from the Practice Manager!
Happy Valentines Day! Better yet, happy Friday and happy puppy day. Always a good day when we get a bucket of puppies to hold.
Halfway through February we finally have snow on the ground and cold weather. Just in time for calving season to ramp up. For those of you that aren't aware, we have a calf room for special care for calves that need it. It has individual calf crates with heat lamps and set ups for giving IVs to calves. These calves get watched pretty closely to ensure they are getting everything they need.
February 28 is the final day of business in our Cresco clinic. There's a lot of emotions to process around the closure but we know it gives us the best opportunity to provide high quality care while still remaining affordable. We will continue to support the Cresco community through advertising and donations. It is important to us to remain committed to our customers in the area while understanding some will travel the 17+/- miles to Harmony and some will not be able to.
We are anticipating an adjustment period in March while we adapt to additional staff in the Harmony office. We are also looking at some additional remodeling in the Harmony building to improve work flow and space for the added staff and equipment. This includes large animal as we move the tilt table from Cresco, which hasn't been used much over the last few years, to Harmony. We'll be able to do twice as many feet and breeding stock evaluations in the near future. Thank you in advance for your patience as we work through the changes.
We appreciate each and every one of you that give us the opportunity to meet the needs of your animals!

01/21/2025

Greetings from the Practice Manager!
A different kind of update from me. Over the past couple of months our owners and I have been discussing current issues affecting our clinics. After a significant amount of data review and some emotional wrangling within ourselves, we have admitted that we can no longer keep the Cresco Veterinary Clinic open. There are many factors involved in this decision and instead of parsing them out here, I'll just include the contents of the letter that was mailed to our Cresco clients last week.

Dear Valued Cresco Client
It has been our pleasure to serve the Cresco community for the past nine years at our Cresco location. Unfortunately, due to economic changes and operational challenges, we have had to make the difficult decision to close the Cresco clinic. While the decision was difficult, it was a necessary one to assist us in utilizing our physical resources and staff as efficiently as possible to continue to prioritize affordable and high-quality care for our clients and their pets.

We will be scheduling appointments in Cresco through February 28th, 2025. After that we will continue to serve you at our Harmony location. We will be transitioning staff from Cresco to Harmony as we seek to care for both our Cresco and Harmony clients. Trina will join Christine at the front desk in Harmony. Tammy will join Allison & Stef to equal a combined 67 years of experience as Certified Veterinary Technicians. In conjunction with Dr. Taylor Nash and Dr. Jill Fisher, Dr. Jim Hanson will continue small animal veterinary care in Harmony where we will have two veterinarians and three technicians available most days to serve our customers as efficiently and timely as possible.

Our large animal services to Cresco clients will remain unchanged. We have expanded our large animal staff to include Dr. Denny Fischer and Dr. Jill Fisher to provide additional and more timely access in the Cresco, Harmony, and surrounding areas.

We look forward to continuing to meet your small animal needs at our Harmony location. We appreciate your loyalty to us in Cresco.

Thank you for trusting us with your animal’s care. We look forward to serving you for many years to come!

Dr. John Rein
Dr. Jeff Collins
Janee Kale (Practice Manager)

Not something we really anticipated but something that came out of hours of work and discussion. We will continue to seek ways to ensure our care is excellent and that our prices remain consistent and fair to the people in this area. Thank you all for understanding as we transition over the next few months.
(Also, we will be selling the building in Cresco after removing all of our equipment and inventory, if you are interested or know someone who is interested, please contact me).

12/05/2024

Greetings from the Practice Manager!
Happy December! Another month is streaking by us. 🙂
Today has been a busy day in the Harmony clinic! With that being said, I want to talk about appointment "no shows". We understand more than most probably that "things come up". We're constantly having to adjust schedules to address emergencies which means sometimes we don't get to a scheduled appointment on time and sometimes we end up moving an appointment to a different day. This is especially true on our large animal side, for some reason cows and horses just don't let their owners know when they're going to be sick, or cut themselves on the fence, or have their calf/foal. Man would life be a lot easier for us if they did! Even on the small animal side we run into snags when pet owners call in with a dog or cat who has had an accident or ate the baby's pacifier (one of my favorite stories is the explorative surgery on a dog that produced several baby pacifiers in his stomach). We do everything we can to make sure we can tend to those pets but sometimes we have to turn them away because we are fully booked for the day. It's very difficult to have to do that and it feels even worse when all of a sudden one of our scheduled appointments doesn't show up. Please think of how you would feel if you were turned away and then found out someone that was holding a spot didn't take it. Again, we totally understand that sometimes things come up. If that is the case, please call us so we can potentially call someone else to fill that spot giving another pet the opportunity to be treated faster and thus feel better faster. In order to ensure we are working to accommodate all clients, we will be requesting a deposit from customers who call for an appointment after consecutive "no show, no calls". The deposit will be applied to the appointment the day it is scheduled. Our goal is to try to meet the needs of all of our patients.
Just a reminder that our capacity for large animal care has expanded with the addition of Dr. Denny and Dr. Jill. Prior to them joining us it was a challenge to get everything done that needed to be done. If you call now for a large animal job, you may be surprised at how quickly we can get to you to get it done. 🙂
Thanks for trusting us to care for your animals!
(Dogs just love our swinging door at the front desk! 🙂 )

11/15/2024

Greetings from the Practice Manager!
Tis the season…for chute work! So thankful to be getting some of these done in nice weather. We do have openings so call and get yours booked.
A couple other items for our large animal clients. First, starting January 1, all purchases must be paid for upon pickup. Our distribution companies have tightened their time frames for collection so we need to do likewise. Second, if you need a large supply of vaccines, please call a day or two ahead to make sure we have it on hand. With the shorter payable times and the rising costs, we will be trying to keep our inventory closer to anticipated needs. We do have same day shipping (prior to 2 pm) with our distributors so most of the time we will be able to get it next day. Adapting to change isn’t always easy but hopefully these aren’t too taxing.
Regretfully, we are losing a valued member of our staff. Keeley, one of our front office staff, has given us her notice. She has been a great team member, we will definitely miss her! That being said, we will be hiring a receptionist to replace her. If you or someone you know would be interested in joining us, feel free to email me at [email protected].
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. We’re thankful for our customers and wish each and every one of you a blessed holiday!
PS can’t resist sharing pictures of mini highlanders and a bucket of puppies!! 😊

11/04/2024

Greetings from the Practice Manager!
Today we're counting our blessings. How often we forget to do that! We grateful for a beautiful fall that saw many of our farmers finishing up crops quickly. That being said, there are still some corn fields around waiting to be harvested. Hopefully they will get done quickly when things dry up around here.
We're thankful for the forecast of warm weather for those chute jobs that need to be done to get cattle ready for winter. It's so much easier standing outside when it's not freezing!
We're grateful for customers that trust us with their pets. It's not something we take lightly. Pets become important members of family and should be treated as such. We are committed to honoring that devotion and ensuring we do the best we can to keep them healthy or to assist making decisions to return them to health.
We're thankful for our staff! We are so fortunate to add the two new vets to our staff, both are great people with a true dedication to animals. Dr. Jill has jumped right into part-time small animal work and has dedicated herself to learning all she can in an area that is new to her. Dr. Denny has been very invested in learning especially while in school, the knowledge he came to us with is incredibly helpful and the training period has flowed very well. We're also incredibly thankful for the staff we have. A business can only be successful if the staff is encouraged to be invested in our success. Please be sure to thank not only your doctors but the vet techs and assistants as well. It takes everyone contributing to ensure the best care for our customers.
Finally, thank you to all our customers. We really wouldn't be successful if it wasn't for you trusting in us. We pledge to continue to give you the best care for your animals and as always we encourage you to reach out to me if you need to discuss anything.
One last thing...you honor us by trusting us, sometimes you also make our day by bringing us treats. Totally not necessary but I can't tell you how much we appreciate it.
Last, a little humor to boot. What does the vet staff do when they find something unusual in the back of the clinic? We'll we catch it and put it in a rubber tote, of course! I know you can't see it but there is a large praying mantis in there, along with the toad and salamander they were trying to get it to eat. (It did eat the grasshopper that was put in.) Eventually they gave up and returned all three things to the wild. Thankfully they didn't try to catch the rat and instead caught it in a trap!