10/31/2026
Why being independently owned matters so much to me.
Before opening Fox Run, I worked at two veterinary hospitals that were sold to corporate/private equity groups during my time there. I experienced veterinary medicine before and after those transitions, and it helped me figure out exactly what I wanted when I opened my own hospital.
I wanted to be independent.
Fox Run opened in 2020, and remaining privately owned is incredibly important to me. Not because every corporate hospital is bad or every independent hospital is perfect, but because independence gives us the freedom to decide what kind of hospital we want to be.
And there are a LOT of things I love about that:
🐾 Decisions are made right here, by people who actually work here. There isn’t a corporate office deciding what is best for our clients, patients, and team.
🐾 Our doctors can practice medicine the way they believe is best for their individual patients without target metrics they have to meet.
🐾 We decide where to invest…in equipment, diagnostics, specialty services, education and our people.
🐾 If something isn’t working, we can change it. We don’t need to wait for corporate approval or insight.
🐾 We get to create a culture that feels like us. Really supportive, really compassionate, and a little bit goofy.
🐾 We can support and invest in our community simply because it’s important to us.
🐾 We have to run a healthy business to stay in business, but Fox Run isn’t a line on a giant company’s spreadsheet.
And maybe most importantly…
I know who owns Fox Run. I do.
That means when something goes well, I’m responsible for continuing it. When something isn’t good enough, I’m responsible for fixing it. And when we make decisions about our patients, clients or team, there isn’t an investor or private equity group above us whose interests also have to be considered.
We are locally owned and that is intentional.
That’s also why I’m SO excited for Fox Run to join CorpFree. CorpFree was created by another local Monument mama who also happens to be one of our clients! She’s building a verified resource of veterinary hospitals that are truly independently owned.
Supporting another local mom while joining something that aligns so closely with what I believe in? Pretty dang cool. And we are incredibly proud to add Fox Run to the CorpFree list and to make it easier for pet owners who value independent veterinary medicine to know exactly where their dollars are going.
