Veterio, a referral veterinary clinic built by LuxVet, the largest Group consolidating the Polish veterinary market, was opened on September 16th. The clinic represents a milestone in the company’s development and the missing link in the referral network LuxVet is building, which will leverage cooperation between facilities to provide advanced and comprehensive veterinary services.
Veterio is located in the Diuna office complex in the Mokotów district of Warsaw. The clinic occupies two floors with a total space of over 2,200 sqm. The medical space is divided into two main wards. One is an emergency ward with an intensive care unit that is open 24 hours a day and 7 days a week to handle emergency and critical cases. The other is a referral ward, which will consist of specialist units, to be opened gradually: internal medicine with endoscopy, surgery, orthopaedics with spinal surgery, cardiology, neurology, ophthalmology, dermatology, imaging, anesthesiology with a pain treatment clinic, oncology and dentistry.
The clinic has 13 consulting rooms, 5 operating rooms of different cleanroom classes, separate inpatient treatment rooms (“hospitals”) for dogs and cats, and several sterile isolation rooms with airlocks to ensure safe isolation of patients with infectious diseases. The facility has its own laboratory and state-of-the-art equipment (including MRI, CT and X-ray), allowing a full range of advanced treatments and diagnostic procedures to be performed on site.
“As the LuxVet Group, we are an active player in the veterinary market and we know that limited access to highly specialized diagnostics and treatments is a problem not only for pet parents but also for the doctors themselves. Not every clinic has a CT scanner, not every clinic performs advanced eye surgery, and not every doctor is willing or able to work at night. We want to fill that gap. Veterio will be a partner for all veterinary institutions. In particular, it will be a partner for doctors, offering them the peace of mind that there is a place where their patients will receive specialized care at any time, after which they can return to the care of the facility that referred them,” says Piotr Zajączkowski, LuxVet Group President.
The project took 12 months to complete. Its cost was more than PLN 20 million.
The development of the LuxVet Group has been supported by three investment funds: funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management L.P. as (the majority shareholder), Cornerstone Investment Management and INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund.
“From the very beginning, we believed in the success of the LuxVet project and in the need to consolidate the veterinary market. We knew that opening a referral hospital would be an important milestone in creating a unique veterinary platform that would revolutionize the animal care market. Opening the first facility of this kind is another step in fulfilling our mission to provide world-class veterinary care in Poland”, concludes Przemysław Krych, founder of Cornerstone Investment Management.
