Our History | Veterinarian in Salem | Adamson Veterinary Services

Our History

The story behind the practice

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Wellness & Annual Exams

Founder and former owner Dr. Daniel Adamson, along with his wife Cathy, opened the small animal practice, and made it their home. Cathy a former registered nurse managed the practice, doing all the paperwork, by hand as computers were not available at the time. They maintained an apartment on the second floor of the hospital for many years before they moved to their new home several years later.

Dr. Adamson was a 1980 Graduate of The Ohio State University College of Veterinary medicine. In the very beginning of the practice, he not only did small animal medicine but would also travel to local farms to treat large animals too. After, a couple of years, he focused only on small animal medicine. The practice focused on general medicine, vaccines, small surgeries, and most testing was outsourced to labs. The practice started out small, with a lobby, 1 exam room, and a small surgical suite.

Adamson Veterinary Services began its journey in November of 1984.

Sick Patient Exam

Microchipping

After 20 years of building his practice, he began to outgrow his working space. He began adding onto the practice, and the state-of-the-art addition was completed in 2004. Housing three exam rooms, a large waiting/reception area, large surgical suite, treatment area, x-ray, in house testing, and numerous kennels, to comfortably house our four-footed guests.

Dr. Vickey Brooks was hired as an associate veterinarian in 2004 doing only small animal medicine and surgery. Dr. Brooks served in the U.S. Army in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. She was a member of the last company of the Women’s Army Corp prior to its merging into a co-ed organization becoming the U.S. Army Corp.

Vaccinations

Nutritional Counseling

Dr. Brooks worked for Dr. Adamson until she purchased the practice in 2009. She created a new company titled Catapuss Veterinary Services, LLC (named after her geriatric cat) but kept the name of the practice as Adamson Veterinary Services.

She added multiple services and hired two more veterinarians and additional staff to service the community and an increasing patient load. In 2013 Dr. Brooks began offering daytime emergency and urgent care services for other veterinary hospitals in the area.