How we verify

Sources, in order

• The clinic's own website: hours, species, emergency policy, payment options. Republished as facts with a checked date; no site text is copied wholesale.
• State license rosters: Tennessee Dept of Health license verification for TN clinics, Mississippi and Arkansas boards for the DeSoto County and West Memphis sides. TN.gov's published linking policy permits copying TN.gov information with attribution and without implying endorsement; we use low-volume per-clinic lookups.
• Shelby County's public new-business-license feed as new-clinic alerts (data provided "as is", "not for official use").

What we exclude

• Google Maps / Places: their terms restrict scraping, storing and caching business data, so nothing is copied from Google. Every listing links out so you can cross-check yourself.
• Yelp, Facebook, Nextdoor: login-walled or reuse-restricted.

Refresh and honest limits

• Hours pages are re-fetched and reviewed before listings update; automated weekly re-checks with change detection are being set up.
• A clinic whose page cannot be re-verified drops off the open-now page and is flagged with an "unable to verify since" date.
• We verify what clinics state, freshly checked - not live intake capacity. Call first.

Corrections

Sponsored placements. Clinics may pay for clearly labeled sponsored placement. Sponsored cards are marked "Sponsored" and kept visually separate from the directory; directory order itself is never sold.

Email [email protected]. We re-check the clinic's website and update the listing with a new checked date.

Site generated 2026-10-23.