In One Door and Out the Other: Practical Flow-Through Planning for Animal Shelters

February 2012

Ever wish you had a road map to saving more lives in your shelter? Gathering and understanding data will provide you with exactly that. Please join Maddie's Institute^SM and Drs. Jan Scarlett and Elizabeth Berliner for a special two-part webcast series on using data to save lives. 

In part-two, Dr. Elizabeth Berliner, Director of Clinical Programs for Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University, will share with us how to move animals efficiently through the shelter with practical strategies to reduce their average length of stay, lower daily inventory and incidence of disease, and improve the quality of care. The on-demand version of this webcast is now available and can be accessed via computer or on a mobile device.

Click here to register for and watch the Flow-Through Planning webcast

Attendees will also learn:

• What flow-through planning is all about
• Why capacity planning is so essential to saving more lives
• How to calculate your shelter's capacity
• Using data to identify bottlenecks in your system
• Strategies to move animals smoothly and successfully through to adoption

In One Door and Out the Other: Practical Flow-Through Planning for Animal Shelters is part of an ongoing series of educational programs from Maddie's Institute, a program of Maddie's Fund^®, the nation's leading funder of shelter medicine education. Maddie's Institute brings cutting edge shelter medicine information from universities and animal welfare leaders to shelter veterinarians, managers and staff as well as private practice veterinarians, rescue groups and community members to increase the lifesaving of homeless dogs and cats community-wide.

If you have questions, please contact us at institute@maddiesfund.org

Maddie's Institute is pleased to be able to offer CE credit to veterinary professionals. In order to qualify for CE credit we ask that individuals attend and participate in the entire program. CE is also available for on-demand presentations, which have additional requirements.

This program was reviewed and approved by the AAVSB RACE program for 1 hour of continuing education in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE approval. Please contact the AAVSB RACE program if you have any comments/concerns regarding this program's validity or relevancy to the veterinary profession. 

This course has been pre-approved for Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credits.

About the Presenter:
Elizabeth Berliner, DVM, MA
Dr. Elizabeth Berliner currently serves as the Director of Clinical Programs for Maddie's^® Shelter Medicine Program at Cornell University. She received her Bachelor's in English Literature from Union College in Schenectady, NY in 1991, a Master's in English from Binghamton University in 1993, and her DVM from Cornell University in 2003. She worked as a veterinarian in private practice and in animal shelters in Baltimore, MD before returning to Cornell in January of 2010. She also serves as a consultant and lead field veterinarian for the Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association's Rural Area Veterinary Services Program, which facilitates mobile spay/neuter and preventive medicine clinics in rural areas of the U.S. that are without access to routine veterinary care.