Heidi's Village

To offer premium veterinary care to low income families, vulnerable populations and those who would otherwise not have access to veterinary care due to cost.
To provide discounted state-of-the-art animal rescue shelter services to existing animal rescues, decreasing euthanasia and enabling more displaced pets to become adoptable and then to be successfully adopted.
To serve populations that may be forgotten in the animal welfare world, survivors of domestic violence, veterans and people experiencing homeless due to medical expenses, mental illness and economic challenges.

Heidi's Village continues to read and understand the value and proof of "bonded families".

**According to a 2018 study conducted by the Access to Veterinary Care Coalition, 88% of households surveyed consider their pet a member of the family. Those who share their lives with an animal may experience reduced loneliness, improved mental and emotional well-being, more frequent physical activity, increased socialization, decreased blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels, and an overall boost in joy and happiness**.

This leads Heidi's to offer discounted veterinary care in the clinic to vulnerable families, people on the edge of homelessness and experiencing other challenges in order for them to continue to live a life positively enhanced by the animal family members. An effort that will enable the positive health impacts of sharing life with a furry friend.

By providing reduced cost shelter services to other shelters, when they experience overflow, we are enabling those shelters to focus on the animals currently in their care, rather than worrying constantly about overflow and euthanizing animals that otherwise could be saved.

We reduce inequalities by offering high quality services to those who wouldn't normally afford such veterinary care. Enabling them to experience equality in identifying, accessing and paying for high quality veterinary care.

Heidi’s Village exists to foster a community where animals are treated with respect, dignity, and compassion. Over 130,000 animals are lost, abandoned, or unwanted and surrendered to shelters in Arizona each year.
Opened in April 2020, Heidi’s Village works with existing animal rescues to provide the most convenient and safest way to handle medical and behavioral needs of an animal in one location. The most critical services an animal will need from a behavior and medical standpoint can be done in the same location: rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming. We care for these animals providing boarding, medical intervention, grooming, behavioral intervention, and wellness services all in one location. This relieves expense and time for the rescue as well as reduces anxiety for these vulnerable animals.

We have provided significantly discounted veterinary services to over 30 rescue partners since our (quiet, pandemic-informed) opening in March of 2020. We have provided discounted surgical services to over 100 animals in that time, saving the rescue organization and/or individual thousands of dollars in needed procedures.

We have secured funding to enable this work to continue this quality, discounted, veterinary care to rescue partners and low-income families in Maricopa County, Arizona, or the Greater Phoenix Area.

Heidi's Village is also an enrolled provider with AlignCare, that will enable vulnerable individuals and families to bring their pets to us, for major veterinary surgeries, and AlignCare will cover 80% of the surgical bill.