Roo is a veterinary relief platform that brings real relief through relief staffing. We empower highly-skilled professionals to take charge of their careers and help hospitals stay productive while giving time off.
Veterinary professionals are the most incredible people on the planet! Heroes like you selflessly dedicate their lives to keeping the pets of the world healthy and happy. This should in no way require you to sacrifice your own happiness and health, yet too often it does.
To be an innovative one-stop solution to many of the challenges we experienced in vet med including long hours, burnout, talent shortages, low pay, and high stress. Our goal from the start has been to improve the quality of life for veterinary professionals everywhere.
When Relief Professionals take charge of their schedules, they define their own work-life balance while enjoying opportunities to boost their income to meet their needs.
Animal Hospitals can rely on relief professionals to give their full-time staff more time off, reducing burnout and turnover so they can keep their doors open in the face of talent shortages.
Full-time Veterinary Professionals who have nothing to do with Roo receive more time off thanks to the availability of relief professionals in their area, improving their work-life balance, too! It’s a win-win-win for the whole industry.
In 2019, our founders saw a need for big changes in vet med. Burnout due to poor work-life balance was causing veterinary professionals to leave the industry, making talent shortages worse! Hospitals struggled to stay afloat, and staffing agencies were not equipped to help. We needed relief.
Roo began as a small, rag-tag operation working out of a tiny room in a Houston animal hospital and a home office in San Francisco. We were just a handful of vets, techs, and practice managers with just enough engineers to make this dream a thing.
Today, our Roo Community has grown to include thousands of veterinarians, technicians, assistants, and hospitals who have provided 1.5 million hours of relief. As we grow, we’re able to bring all the great benefits of veterinary relief to even more heroes, making vet med a better place for all.
