Charleston Veterinary Referral Center
Claire Akin is an experienced Emergency Veterinarian currently working at Charleston Veterinary Referral Center since September 2021. Prior to this role, Claire Akin served as an Emergency Veterinarian at Nashville Veterinary Specialists from July 2020 to July 2021 and completed a Small Animal Rotating Internship at Mission Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Hospital from June 2019 to June 2020. Educational qualifications include a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree from Kansas State University, obtained in 2019, and a Bachelor's Degree in Animal Sciences from the same institution, received in 2013.
Charleston Veterinary Referral Center
Charleston Veterinary Referral Center (CVRC) is the most advanced and comprehensive small animal referral and emergency hospital in the Lowcountry (greater Charleston, SC area). We see appointments by referral from your primary veterinarian and are open and staffed for emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Specialties include emergency medicine, critical care, internal medicine, cardiology, neurology, oncology, surgery, physical rehabilitation, sports medicine and theriogenology. Patients visit us from South Carolina and surrounding states. CVRC is a 24-hour specialty and emergency referral hospital located in West Ashley, about 15 minutes from downtown Charleston, SC. The Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society (VECCS) has awarded us its highest certification for emergency and critical care, Level 1, making Charleston Veterinary Referral Center one of a select few veterinary hospitals in the nation and the only hospital in South Carolina to attain this recognition. Our goal is to deliver an exceptional patient and pet owner experience, which requires excellent medical, surgical and nursing care, as well as compassionate custom service. We firmly believe that our staff is the key to our success and to deliver on our goals.