Welcome to the Marina Pet Hospital Group. We operate three veterinary hospitals—Marina Pet Hospital, located in San Francisco; Valley Veterinary Hospital, located in Walnut Creek and Danville Veterinary Hospital, located in Danville. The Marina Pet Hospital Group now serves thousands of pets each year, but it all began with a small practice in 1938.
Marina Pet Hospital
Dr. Howard Carroll opened Marina Pet Hospital in San Francisco in 1938, in a building that the San Francisco Scavengers Association used as a union meeting hall.When Dr. Carroll opened the practice, his former classmates at Washington State University jeered and gave him little chance for success, all because his patients were to be dogs and cats instead of cows, horses and pigs. At that time, only few textbooks even covered the treatment of companion Pets. But Dr. Carroll, who lived with his family in what are now Examination Rooms 1 and 2, persevered with his new practice and pioneered much work in companion pet medicine.
During World War II, Dr. Carroll served in the Veterinary Corps. Upon his return, Marina Pet Hospital grew considerably, and he remodeled the building's entire first floor to serve his expanding list of clients. He and his family moved upstairs.
By the time he sold the hospital to Dr. Roger Kuhn in November 1970, Dr. Carroll and his practice had acquired a reputation for quality veterinary care. He served in many capacities in the San Francisco Veterinary Medical Association, and he was involved in the formation of the American Animal Hospital Association. He later served as an AAHA president.
Dr. Carroll went on to operate a dermatology specialty practice in Burlingame, Calif., for three years after he sold Marina Pet Hospital and was later involved in continuing education in various capacities throughout California.
Valley Veterinary Hospital
Dr. Schwab first opened Valley Veterinary Hospital in 1965 in Walnut
Creek, on Ygnacio Valley Road between Broadway and California. Dr.
Schwab's design of his new hospital caught the eye of the staff at the
veterinary publication "Veterinary Economics," which presented him with
its national award for the best-designed hospital in 1965. Several years later, Dr. Schwab bought another tract of land along Ygnacio Valley Road and began to design the present building. When he moved his practice into the new Walnut Creek hospital in 1971, Dr. Schwab again won "Veterinary Economics'" design award. No one else has won this award twice.
Dr. Schwab expanded his practice in 1975 by opening another office in Danville. Dr. Roger Kuhn purchased Valley Veterinary Hospital from Dr. Lester Schwab in May 1979.
Danville Veterinary Hospital
Dr. Thomas Olhson had opened the Danville Veterinary Hospital in 1954
in the remodeled garage of his home at 344 Rose Avenue, across the
highway from the hospital's current location. He lived with his wife and
six children in the main part of the house. His practice was mixed—50
percent large animals (horses, cattle, and sheep) and 50 percent
companion pets—and he was the only large animal veterinarian from
Pleasanton to Walnut Creek. In the early 1960s, he stopped doing large
animal work, and in 1967 he built the present hospital on Camino Ramon.Well-respected in the community, Dr. Olhson was the president of the Chamber of Commerce in 1957, a charter member of the Danville Rotary Club, the president of the Rotary Club in 1962, a member is the School Board in 1964, and the president of the Contra Costa Veterinary Medical Association.
In April 1985, Dr. Kuhn acquired the Danville Veterinary Hospital from Dr. Thomas Olhson. Dr. Kuhn closed the Valley Veterinary Hospital located in Danville's Clock Towers and relocated all the patients to the Danville Veterinary Hospital.
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