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WRMD

New WRMD features: introducing the Public Animal Intake Form

A customizable way for the public to report an injured or orphaned animal — reviewed by your team before it ever becomes a patient record.

August 19, 2026
WRMD

Know exactly what changed: introducing the Audit Log

WRMD now keeps an automatic, unchangeable record of every change to a patient record — one of the most requested features in its history.

July 7, 2026
WRMD

Find your species faster: introducing Curated Common Names

Build a short list of the species your organization actually treats, and the admission form quietly narrows itself to match.

June 23, 2026
WRMD

Your Data, Your Rules: Introducing Required Fields

Required Fields is available to WRMD Pro users and lets your organization designate the fields that matter most to you as mandatory — above and…

June 16, 2026
WRMD

WRMD Best Practices

This page lists tips and tricks for using WRMD to its full capacity. We will continue to update it with new tips weekly.

April 9, 2026
WRMD

WRMD 4.0 Starting Launch December 14th!

We’re thrilled to announce that WRMD 4.0 will start launch on Sunday, December 14th. WRMD will be offline for data migration from 3PM – 11:00PM PST…

November 19, 2025
WRMD

WRMD 4.0 Tips

As we prepare for the fall launch of WRMD 4.0, we will be sharing tips about 4.0 so that you can begin to familiarize yourself with the updated…

July 11, 2025
WildAlert

Washington State Joins WildAlert

Washington Joins WildAlert: Expanding Early Detection of Unusual Events Across the West We’re thrilled to announce that Washington State is the most…

July 7, 2025
WildAlert

A WildAlert Road Trip

In early April, our co-founder and president, Rachel Avilla, traveled through Arizona with Terra Kelly, a WNDP board member and close colleague. The…

May 30, 2025
WRMD

WRMD 4.0 set to relaunch in the fall

4/1/2025 We sincerely apologize for the issues you experienced with WRMD 4.0 today. Despite our best efforts and extensive testing, our new servers…

March 28, 2025
OWRMD

Oilapalooza 2024

Our team recently attended Oilapalooza in Bakersfield, California. This bi-annual event is hosted by the Oiled Wildlife Care Network and UC Davis.…

November 1, 2024
Ceto

Ceto is live!

We are excited to share that our most recent project, Ceto , is now live! Currently, only organizations within the Gulf of Mexico Marine Mammal…

September 13, 2024

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