All animals used during all of the hands-on lab have been given a second chance in life and come to us from abuse and neglect and in return for their “new lease on life” they help the students learn and understand the science as well as the compassion that we as professionals must strive for.

To all applicants:  The Healing Oasis Wellness Center makes every attempt to offer the programs as announced.  However, the HOWC reserves the right to adjust program faculty, location, dates, times and tuition to accommodate unanticipated occurrences.  The HOWC is not responsible for any cost / expenses incurred by registrants due to program adjustments or cancellations

The Healing Oasis Wellness Center, LLC.  is an educational institution located in Sturtevant, Wisconsin dedicated to the advancement of Veterinary Spinal Manipulative Therapy, Veterinary Massage and Rehabilitation Therapy, Advance Neurology - VSMT and to provide up to date continuing education seminars.

The school has been in existence since 1999 and has achieved several state and national approval and accreditation. 

The Healing Oasis Wellness Center is a nationally accredited institution  providing programs in integrative veterinary health care modalities and the only institution of such kind to have achieved such high standards.  All of the programs offered at the school have also been approved by an Educational Approval Board being the first and only school to have achieved such standards since its inception in 1998 (full Approval 1/1/1999).

By being the only institution with such high standards (State Approved and National Accredited by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education) helps to protect the students and the the public, but it also gives credibility to the school and its faculty and to the profession in general.  No other school offering integrative veterinary health care modalities have achieved such standards

The Healing Oasis Wellness Center received the longest approval term for an initial accreditation by an accrediting agency recognized by the United States Department of Education.  The Healing Oasis Wellness Center has received a three (3) years full accreditation by the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.

The Healing Oasis Wellness Center has also been a registered continuing education provider under the American Assocciation of Veterinary State Boards. (www.aavsb.org) .  The Healing Oasis Wellness Center has been an AAVSB-RACE approved provider since 2001 (Approval Provider Number 87).

If you would like to find out why the experience, commitment and dedication makes the Healing Oasis Wellness Center “holistic veterinary learning at its best” then come and join us in one of our programs.

Pedro Luis Rivera, DVM, Fellow of the American College of Functional Neurology  and Michelle J. Rivera, MT, VDT(Program Directors and Owners)