Mauldin’s Oasis Animal Hospital & Vet Emergency will soon move to a new, larger location.
The new location, at 900 W. Butler Road, totals 15,000 square feet. With the newfound space, its owners, Dr. Atticus Mabry and Dr. Kristen Espinoza, hope to increase its capacity for community outreach and services. In the process, they hope to refine the experiences of pet owners. Internally, the partners hope to enhance the work life of staff.
“One of the big motivations of this is space,” Mabry said. “Let’s bring some natural light in here and just make it feel homey and not like a vet practice.”
The office will be divided into exam rooms, surgical suites, a dedicated pharmacy, work desks, a lab and learning space. It will have two outdoor areas — one for animals that are sick and one for animals that are not. Beyond functional additions, Oasis is adding amenities such as a coffee bar and charging ports so pet owners can work while pets are examined.
The new office will add significantly more exam rooms with the hopes of providing immediate service and minimizing stressful environments for cats and animals with anxiety.
“The best thing about increasing the number of exam rooms is decreasing the amount of time in the lobby,” Espinoza said.
Additionally, the extra square footage allows for the expansion of orthopedic surgery.
Community involvement
Upstairs, the team is building a space to conduct onboarding and training.
Recently, the office was the venue for a local teenage cancer patient’s Make-A-Wish request. The teen was given a puppy and Oasis sponsored its health care for life.
The vet hospital also sponsored a puppy playground installed in the Greenville Humane Society.
“I think one of the big things is we’ve recognized (that) the more we can do outreach — whether it’s the Humane Society or Make-A-Wish, or Greenville County Animal Care — the more people want to get involved with their pets,” Mabry said.
Oasis Animal Hospital & Vet Emergency will open for services April 2 at 10 a.m. The community will be able to take a first look March 30.
Ongoing care
The urgency for added amenities comes from a desire to encourage routine wellness for pets, specifically for cats and dental care.
“We want to grow (the cat) side because people are bad about bringing their cats in when they’re sick and not bringing them in when they’re well,” Mabry said.
Both doctors expressed a necessity for regular vet visits because often they will discover an animal has broken teeth that have led to a decreased appetite or food abstinence, which can then rapidly lead to dire health issues.
