NC State Will Dedicate Terry Center Animal Hospital May 6

North Carolina State University will dedicate the Randall B. Terry Jr., Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center at 2 p.m. on May 6. The 110,000-square-foot addition will more than double the current size of NC State’s Small Animal Veterinary Teaching Hospital (VTH), making it one of the largest, most technologically advanced veterinary facilities in the country.

Media are invited to attend the event, which will take place at the Terry Center, located at NC State’s College of Veterinary Medicine on William Moore Drive. Tours of the facility are available for interested media prior to the event on Thursday, May 5 and Friday, May 6. Contact David Green at 919/513-6662 to schedule a tour. For event directions and parking passes, contact Tracey Peake at 919/515-6142.

The new medical center will double the number of exam rooms and surgery suites previously available at the Small Animal VTH, and will add expanded patient visitation areas, dedicated teaching space, and a spacious new pharmacy.

Combined, the Terry Center, the Equine and Farm Animal Veterinary Center, and the emerging Veterinary Health and Wellness Center (housed in the Small Animal VTH), will create the Veterinary Health Complex on NC State’s Centennial Biomedical Campus (CBC). The CBC advances biomedical research, bio- and agro-security, food animal health and food safety, ecosystem health, animal welfare, and the critical job of training the next generation of veterinarians and veterinary scientists.

The $72 million  project was made possible, in part, by a $20 million donation from the R.B. Terry, Jr., Charitable Foundation – one of the largest private gifts ever given to NC State. The North Carolina General Assembly appropriated $38 million for the facility in 2006, and additional private funds paid for the remaining costs.

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