Vets with vision: Fall Creek Vet moves into expanded, upgraded new home

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By Sam Elliott

Dr. Jerry Risser described his practice’s move into its new and improved, expanded McCordsville location like only a veterinarian can.

“It was an elephant-like gestation to get here,” he said. “It took a long while, but now that the casts have come off it’s a whole lot nicer. We loved the location we were at before, it was a great location for us, but we were just like sardines in a can there.”

Fall Creek Veterinary Medical Center celebrated the grand opening of its new location — at 9667 Geist Crossing Dr. in McCordsville, directly behind the strip mall that housed its previous location — with a ribbon-cutting March 11.

The new facility has more than tripled the practice’s space, as it used to operate in a 1,968-square-foot location, but now has 6,800 square feet to work with.

“We were really limited by our facility where we had two exam rooms, we couldn’t see patients the way we wanted to, and now we’ve gone from two to five (exam rooms) and we’ve got more space for inpatients, more space for grooming, and it’s just given us a chance to kind of take the practice we had and just be able to do it in a way that gives us space to grow,” Risser said. “It really is largely just taking the practice that was constrained by space and letting us be able to stretch our legs here.”

Dr. Risser opened the practice in 2007 and Dr. Aaron Luth joined him in 2014. They and their staff of approximately 15 will now be able to see more patients simultaneously as the expanded new facility includes five exam rooms, a surgery room, X-ray-equipped room and waiting areas for families.

“As opposed to telling people, if we needed to squeeze something in, ‘We really don’t have the space to put you, we may just need to have you wait for a while,’ now we can work it in and we’ve got a room for them to be in,” Risser said. “We can be a lot more efficient. Our efficiency will go way up and we can be doing multiple things at the same time.”

The Fall Creek staff began really feeling the need for expansion about two years ago, Risser said, and the site for their new building happened to become available right as another potential location fell through.

“It kind of fell into our lap right at the time we needed it,” he said.

Peterson Architecture, Elements Engineering and CF Jones Construction worked on the new facility, which includes a second floor solely for office space — a vast improvement over the practice’s previous location.

“I shared an office with our business manager and it was a former closet. We would have to store boxes in there, too, like old records and things like that,” Risser said. “I had a desk that fit a computer and some pens. We couldn’t close the door because the laundry kept filling up in the way of the door, too.”

Now Risser, Luth and the rest of the staff have more room in which to operate, but they still want to keep their small-practice vibe.

“We’ve worked really hard to get a culture for this practice that we like of being kind of the family doctor for your pets,” Risser said. “Our goal is to be a small practice in a bigger space, where we have more space and can be more efficient with it, but I like the fact that we are still small and I want to keep that feel.”

Fall Creek Veterinary Medical Center

New address: 9667 Geist Crossing Dr., McCordsville

Old location size: 1,968 square feet

New location size: 6,800 square feet

Old location exam rooms: Two

New location exam rooms: Five

Dr. Jerry Risser

Education: Bachelors and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from Texas A&M University, Master of Arts in Bioethics from Trinity International University

Family: Wife, Rebecca; son, Jameson, 11; daughters, Laine, 11, and Lydia (10); dogs, Kelsey and Pippa

Dr. Aaron Luth

Education: Bachelor of Science degree from Bradley University, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Purdue

Family: dogs, Tess and Kallie


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