Meet Our Team!

My “Why”…

We all have a driving force behind the why, the how and the what we do. Here is my “Why” as practice owner and Veterinarian of Animal Health Care Veterinary Hospital:

I graduated Iowa State University with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine in May of 2000 with a dream to extend the time and bond of people and their pets. Now, with over 2 decades of companion animal veterinary experience under my belt, I feel I have a good understanding of myself, my goals, and our profession. My “why” all stem from my experiences from being a:

• Farm girl nursing to health all of the sick critters that came my way
• Veterinary Student
• Associate veterinarian (non-owning entity)
• Traveling Relief veterinarian (contracted employee)
• Working in Large 8+ Veterinarian Practices
• Working in Small 1-2 Veterinarian Practices
• Living/Practicing in rural and urban areas
• Mother/Working Mom
• Wife
• Practice Owner

During my 20+ years, I have witnessed the joy, beauty, integrity, and advancements in medicine. I have also witnessed unprecedented depression, work-life imbalance, financial hardships, compassion fatigue, suicide, and burn out from this industry. As one practice owner, I cannot control the fate or direction of the veterinary industry, but I can control my little “bubble” of how I practice and those with whom I surround myself. We cannot fix all that is wrong with the world, however, can we make it just a little bit better one vet visit at a time?

Animal Health Care Veterinary Hospital is the culmination of taking all my experiences by always being a work in progress attempting to build a practice where all employees, clients and patients are seen of value and witness our passion for what we do. We will also protect this passion by making my staff feel valued, safe from injury, living wages, and constantly encouraged to succeed. However, the trade is we must also have time for our own family, friends, hobbies, and rest. “You can’t pour from an empty cup.”

Dr. Beth Wohlert is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine who joined the team at Animal Health Care in 2012. She grew up on a small dairy farm in NE Iowa. With her siblings she enjoyed a menagerie of pets both indoor and outdoor. Her best friend growing up was a black Cockapoo named Petey, who enjoyed chasing skunks, along with the baths and attention this behavior gained. This piqued her interest in caring for animals of all sizes. After high school she obtained her Bachelor degree in Biology in 2005 at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA. She then pursued her DVM at Iowa State University where she graduated in 2009.

Her favorite part of this job is getting to know the pets, and the clients who have become part of the AHCVH family. She greatly enjoys the energy, humor of the staff, and the commitment to good quality medicine, surgery, and preventative care.

She currently lives in Caledonia, MN where she farms with her husband, Tyler and their soon to be 1 year old son Jonah. She is very excited to get the chance to meet you!

Dr. Sarah Muellner was born and raised in Rochester. She moved away to River Falls, WI to obtain her undergraduate degree in biology. She then attended Veterinary school at Iowa State and graduated in 2006. After veterinary school, she lived and worked in the Twin Cities area until 2014 when she moved back to Rochester to raise her family. Dr. Muellner’s professional interests include preventative care, senior care, dentistry, and dermatology.

Outside of work, she enjoys family time with her husband, 3 kids, and being active outdoors. Dr. Muellner is excited to be part of the team here at Animal Health Care Veterinary Hospital.

Bio coming soon!

Raised as an Iowa farm boy I learned to be creatively resourceful and have always been a “Do-It-Yourself” kind of person.  I also found I was very good with math and science and computers during my elementary & high school years.  After high school, I attended Iowa State University in Ames, IA, where I met my wonderful wife, Dr. Christine Vogel.  We then moved to Denver in 2000 and I got my feet wet in the telecommunications industry with AT&T Broadband (now part of Comcast).  In 2004 our son was born and was quickly followed by our daughter in 2005.  In 2006 we decided to pack the family and herd of pets up and move back to the Midwest where we were closer to our families.  Continuing my career in telecommunications, I took a position with Charter Communications (now part of Spectrum).  In 2008 the opportunity to help my wife get into a private practice of her own became available and we jumped at it.  It needed lots of work though.  Not a single computer in the place and still had wood paneling on the walls from the ’70s.  Lots of sweat and tears have gone into this business since then. 

In 2017 I left Spectrum and went back to school and in two very short years, I finished my B.S. in Data Science/Data Management.  Now in the years leading up to this point, I had spent a lot of my spare time helping at AHCVH with IT support and it had very much become a family affair with everyone helping in some way. So… what do I decide to do?  Why not start my own IT services company (as if we didn’t have enough on our plate already)!   And in 2018 I founded Red Stapler Geek Support offering in-home IT support but still very much a part of the AHCVH family.