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The Arizona Humane Society is about to open a brand new shelter and hospital facility in Phoenix, increasing the shelter’s veterinary hospital providers in addition to kennel capability to serve the Valley 24 hours a day, seven days per week.
Located at 5501 E. Van Buren St. in Phoenix, the Rob and Melani Walton Papago Park Campus will exchange the shelter’s Sunnyslope Campus.
Arizona Humane Society President and CEO, Dr. Steven Hansen, stated the Sunnyslope Campus is not going to shut its doorways for good when the Papago location opens. Instead, the shelter plans to rework and reopen Sunnyslope as a full-service veterinary hospital.
In 2021, the nonprofit broke floor on the brand new facility in Phoenix. The Papago Park Campus would be the Humane Society’s third adoption location, an addition to the Nina Mason Pulliam South Mountain Campus and PetSmart Scottsdale places.
The Rob and Melani Walton Papago Park Campus shall be a full-service veterinary hospital in addition to an adoption location. The facility can have a little bit over 350 cat kennels, 200 canine kennels, and 35 critter kennels between the hospital and adoption areas.
Additionally, the power will enhance the shelter’s trauma care capability by 25%, in addition to providing 40% extra inexpensive veterinary care.
Best identified for taking within the Valley’s sick and injured pets and strays, the Humane Society envisioned a brand new campus that’s higher outfitted to nurse these animals again to well being.
“The old Sunnsylope hospital location for this shelter was completely inadequate for disease control,” stated Hansen. “So now we can manage disease control in a much, much better manner.”
Hansen defined that the brand new Papago Park Campus has an improved air flow system that can permit the shelter to maintain animals utterly remoted from each other. The air flow system will flow into air from one building again into the identical building, retaining ailments remoted to 1 space extra successfully.
The new Rob and Melani Walton Papago Park Campus may even permit the shelter to function 24 hours a day, seven days per week, one thing that the Sunnyslope campus’ location didn’t permit.
Set to open its doorways March 6, the brand new campus includes a new location for the favored Scottsdale-based espresso firm, Echo Coffee. In the foyer of the Papago Park Campus, Echo Coffee will open a brand new full-service espresso store.
“I think helping pets is one of the best ways to help people,” stated Echo Coffee proprietor, Rob Rigolfi Jr. “And from what I can tell the Humane Society does the best job around at helping those animals.”
Echo Coffee has partnered with the Arizona Humane Society since 2021, donating 1% of all proceeds to the shelter. The Echo Coffee location within the foyer of the Papago Park Campus will proceed this partnership in donating 1% of its proceeds to the shelter.
