Pet owners have one more option for emergency veterinary services in the area.
MedVet, an emergency and specialty pet hospital open 24 hours a day, seven days a week in Vancouver, offers an expansive facility featuring specialty treatment rooms with high-tech diagnostic machinery. The hospital opened Oct. 31, 2023.
The hospital specializes in all manner of medical treatments and diagnostics, running similarly to an emergency room for humans, hospital director Benjamin Blood said.
The Vancouver facility, located at 2913 NE 72nd Drive, is the first MedVet location in the Pacific Northwest. It includes 16 exam rooms, an intensive care unit, six operating rooms, a computed tomography (CT) machine and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine. The facility has nine emergency room doctors, two neurologists, two internal medicine specialists, one surgeon and one anesthesiologist. A team of veterinary technicians with a variety of specialties supports the doctors, as well.
“We do have the latest, and the gold standard in medicine here, [with a] highly, highly trained and capable technician staff. We have the wonderful veterinarians, who can diagnose and lead the cases, but their support team is second to none,” Blood said.