Emergency Animal Hospital | Veterinary Neurology | Holistic Medicine | Veterinary Ultrasound

Bring Your Pet to Our Emergency Animal Hospital

Veterinary Care Specialists offers 24 hour emergency veterinary care, surgical interventions, and critical care services for the seriously ill patient. Whenever you have the need, we’re there to take care of your need. With our veterinary emergency medicine services, we can take care of any animal emergency, at any time. No need to call; just pack up your pet and come right over.

When you arrive at our animal hospital, we’ll address your pet’s needs right away. We’ll do a thorough assessment of your pet’s condition, provide the emergency veterinary care your pet needs, and make recommendations for the ongoing care your pet will require. We’ll provide whatever treatment your pet needs right then and there at our Veterinary Care Specialists facility. If your pet’s problems are minor, we can take care of them right away. If your pet needs surgery or is seriously ill, we are equipped to provide a range of surgical and critical care services, including follow-up treatment and monitoring, right at our facility.

Whatever your need, you can feel that you’ve brought your pet to the right place. At Veterinary Care Specialists, we have experience with a broad array of medical conditions, the skilled and knowledgeable clinicians needed to diagnose and assess your pet’s problem and the range of services needed to treat it. And in our well-equipped and restful medical facility, set in beautiful surroundings, your pet can get the medical care he or she needs, feel comforted by a caring staff and the views of nature outside, and start on the road to recovery.

Our Veterinary Emergency Medicine Specialists Are Available ‘Round the Clock

The Veterinary Care Specialists animal emergency clinic is staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with an experienced and credentialed veterinary medicine team who care for your pet under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian. And because of the range and depth of our medical expertise and our experience with a broad range of surgical and critically ill patients, we are equipped to assess and treat patients presenting with virtually any type of animal emergency.

We want you to call on us when you’re in need. We want to be of help in caring for your pet anytime you need us. When your regular veterinarian’s office is closed—we’re open. When you need an animal hospital experienced with a wide range of animal symptoms and problems—we’re here for you. When you want your pet to be cared for by veterinary care specialists who love animals and who believe in the value of holistic medicine—in a comprehensive approach to veterinary care that takes into account all aspects of the patient’s life and lifestyle—that’s what we’re all about.

Veterinary Care Specialists Staff Are Credentialed in Emergency Veterinary Medicine

At Veterinary Care Specialists, our staff includes licensed veterinarians, licensed veterinary technicians, a registered diagnostic medical sonographer / registered vascular technologist, animal health technicians, and technicians certified by the American College of Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care. These credentials were awarded our staff members after they completed courses of education, underwent specialized training, and accumulated years of experience in the veterinary medicine field.

Additionally, Veterinary Care Specialists is a member of the Michigan Veterinary Medicine Association and the American Veterinary Medicine Association.

At Veterinary Care Specialists, the ongoing education of our team members is important to us. Every clinician keeps abreast of the latest technology and the most recent advances in veterinary medicine, so we can fulfill our pledge to deliver the best veterinary emergency medicine we can to every patient who requires it.

Our Veterinary Emergency Hospital Is Known for Its Personalized Care

When you need an animal emergency clinic, you’re right to look for a veterinary hospital that has the medical team with the right training and skills and hope that that team will also give your pet the same love and attention you do. You can relax: When you bring your pet to Veterinary Care Specialists, that’s just what you’ll find. From the moment you arrive, you’ll feel relieved. Because of the depth and breadth of our medical experience, our highly trained medical team members, and our fully equipped medical facility, we can provide the best veterinary emergency medicine your pet can get. You’ll also feel comforted—because we’ll enfold your pet in our arms and care for him or her like we would our own.

We Provide State-of-the Art Emergency Medicine Critical Care in a Natural Setting

For the animal who is having a medical emergency, needs surgery, or is critically ill, Veterinary Care Specialists offers emergency, surgical, and critical care services of the highest quality. With the broad range of medical specialties available at Veterinary Care Specialists, we are ready to address your pet’s most pressing problems in our animal emergency hospital, intervene surgically, if necessary, and provide intensive care treatment and monitoring for as long as your pet needs those services. In our modern facility, all care is provided in a fully equipped, up-to-date medical setting designed to sooth your pet and provide comfort and support during the healing process.

When we at Veterinary Care Specialists care for animals with serious illnesses or emergencies, our goal is to diagnose the patient’s primary and secondary disease conditions, anticipate complications and prevent or manage them, initiate and continue treatment, and monitor and support the patient until he or she is well enough for follow-up by the referring general practitioner, internist, or surgeon. We provide:

• frequent monitoring of the patient whose clinical condition can change from minute to minute.
  
  
• repeated physical examinations, to continually assess and reassess the patient’s condition.
  
  
• diagnostic testing, to establish a diagnosis and tailor a therapeutic plan to the patient’s needs.
  
  
• physiological monitoring, to track the patient’s condition, support the patient’s treatment plan, and identify new issues as they arise.
  
  

At Veterinary Care Specialists, we can accommodate your pet in our intensive care unit, which is fully equipped with the most current technology and equipment. For the pet with a contagious condition, our isolation units are available. Oxygen and anesthesia are available throughout our hospital. Our air handling systems provide zoned heating and cooling, which allows us greater flexibility in addressing our patients’ need for comfort. All our units have windows that look out onto the surrounding woodlands and wetlands, a natural environment that promotes rest and recovery for our patients.

When your pet is having a medical emergency, needs surgery, or is seriously ill, we at Veterinary Care Specialists have the knowledge, the skills, the equipment, and the facility to support your pet when he or she needs us the most. We’ll treat your pet with care and respect and will provide the highest level of diagnostic, treatment, and monitoring services. Our caring and support will give your pet the best chance at recovery and a return to health.

We Assess and Monitor Our Patients Using the Latest Technology

The medical team at Veterinary Care Specialists uses the latest technology to assess and monitor the patient’s condition and provide a rapid response when action is needed. This technology helps us optimize the delivery of our emergency, surgical, and critical care services, since it helps us identify many physical abnormalities and subtle changes in the patient’s vital parameters that cannot be detected by physical examination alone.

At Veterinary Care Specialists, our facility is equipped with a wise range of assessment and monitoring technologies. Our clinical staff are familiar with these technologies and use them skillfully to assess the patient’s condition on an ongoing basis.

At Veterinary Care Specialists, our staff members are equipped with the knowledge and training to use all the available technology. That technology helps us deliver the right services at the right time in the right way to the animal who is having a medical emergency, who is undergoing surgical interventions, or who is critically ill.

Our Specialized Knowledge Helps Us Care for Our Veterinary Clinic Patients

When you put your pet in our hands, you can rest assured: Our medical team members at Veterinary Care Specialists have training and experience in a variety of veterinary specialties. As part of our team approach to the care of emergency, surgical, and critical care patients, our clinicians bring the specialized knowledge from those fields into the assessment and treatment of every animal.

With their specialized skills, our medical team members can complete and interpret various tests used in the assessment of our emergency, surgical, and critical care patients.

Our staff also use their specialized technical skills and the available medical technology in treating our emergency, surgical, and critical care patients—for example, to provide external, mechanical breathing support for a patient with compromised lung functioning, or to administer fluid therapy—until normal functioning returns.

We Use the Team Approach at Veterinary Care Specialists

Because of our holistic medicine (comprehensive) approach to veterinary emergency services and the care of the surgical or critically ill patient, we at Veterinary Care Specialists regularly consult with specialists in various areas of veterinary medicine. We request the opinions of other specialists in order to optimize the care of our patients. By bringing the most complete information into the assessment and treatment process, we can deliver the best veterinary care to your pet when he or she needs it the most. When appropriate, the consulting specialist will continue to be involved with the ongoing care of the patient, until the patient’s functioning begins to return to normal.

Veterinary Care Specialists Assists Local Veterinarians

The medical team members at Veterinary Care Specialists have the experience and training to assist other local veterinarians with their patients who need intensive medical services and post-surgical care .

For the patient who presents to the general practice veterinarian or to the emergency veterinary hospital with a disease or traumatic injury that that may benefit from ongoing intensive care services, Veterinary Care Specialists can provide continuous monitoring, ongoing diagnostic procedures, and ongoing therapy.

With some patients who present to the general or emergency veterinarian, it may not be readily apparent that they are critically ill. Exposure to certain toxic substances, for example, may not produce clinical signs until several hours or several days after the exposure. For these patients, Veterinary Care Specialists can provide critical care treatment services to avoid clinical consequences or to monitor the patient for the earliest signs of toxicity and initiate therapy prior to the development of catastrophic consequences.

Additionally, for high-risk surgical patients, anesthesia can be tailored to minimize detrimental effects. For these patients, Veterinary Care Services can provide the extensive monitoring needed during and after the anesthetic event to identify potential complications of the anesthesia and surgical procedure.

If you are a veterinarian in the community who has a patient in need of more intensive medical or post-surgical services than are available in your office, we at Veterinary Care Specialists are ready to help you. We will work closely with you to coordinate your patient’s referral, provide written reports at admission and discharge, update you regularly on your patient’s status, and coordinate your patient’s discharge back into your care for ongoing follow-up.

We Give Daily Updates, at Our Veterinary Hospital

When you bring your pet to us, we understand that you’ll be worried about his or her condition and will be hoping for signs that your pet has begun to recover. If your pet needs to stay with us for surgery, medical monitoring, or treatment, we’ll encourage you to call us to see how your pet is doing. We’ll suggest that you visit your pet and bring him or her familiar playthings, for reassurance and comfort. At the same time, we’re going to contact you on a daily basis to let you know your pet’s condition. Of course, we’ll always get your permission before beginning significant medical therapies and we’ll keep you apprised of the results.

Additionally, when your family veterinarian has referred your pet to us for services, we will provide regular reports to the referring veterinarian’s office, including written reports at admission and discharge. As your pet’s course of medical care comes to a close, we’ll refer the patient back to your veterinarian’s office for post-discharge care.

At Veterinary Care Specialists, our goal is to provide the best patient care while maintaining high-quality communication with both you, the pet owner, and the referring veterinarian. You can feel good about putting your pet in our hands: You’ll always know what’s going on.

At Veterinary Care Specialists, We’re Experienced with Routine and Unusual Animal Conditions

The medical team members at Veterinary Care Services are skilled and caring people who are also very experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of animals. Together, the veterinarians, specialists, technicians, and assistants at Veterinary Care Services can offer your pet over XXX years of experience in veterinary medicine.

We’ve seen it all. At Veterinary Care Specialists, we are experienced in handling a wide range of animal emergency problems. Among other conditions, we routinely diagnose and treat injuries, intestinal obstructions, pancreatitis, diabetes mellitus, feline lower urinary tract disease (FLUTD), and similar conditions. We’ve also had experience with presenting problems that are less commonly seen, including gastric dilatation-volvus (GDV), hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, immune-mediated hemolytic anemia (IMHA), and seizure disorders / epilepsy.

When you bring your pet into Veterinary Care Specialists, we bring the combined experience of all of our clinicians to promptly assess and diagnose your pet’s problem—no matter how common or how rare—and promptly develop and implement a treatment plan that will address it.

Pet Boarding / Medical Boarding, for Animals Who Need Medical Monitoring

Veterinary Care Specialists is now offering medical boarding for the animal with special needs. If your pet needs special attention when you are away, either due to a medical condition or a recent surgery, or because of anxiety, age, or any other special need, our clinical staff members at Veterinary Care Specialists are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can drop your pet off at our veterinary hospital anytime it’s convenient and pick up whenever you’re ready. At Veterinary Care Specialists, we have a veterinarian and a full staff of clinicians on site at all times. Your pet will get the medical monitoring needed and any medical interventions required. We will provide skilled nursing care for your pet in your absence. When you’re away, you won’t have to worry about your pet’s safety and well being. We have the staff and the facility to take care of your pet with special needs. Anytime you need us, just call on us. We’re always here.

Emergency and Critical Care

Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition • Blood Product Administration • Blood Banking • Peritoneal Dialysis
Oxygenation • ECG, Blood Pressure Advanced Fluid Therapy & Stabilization • Pain Management • Surgical Management
Respiratory Care Ventilatory Support • Exotics-Stabilization

Ultrasonography

Registered Ultrasonographer Abdominal Thoracic Reproductive Vascular Doppler

Assessment and Monitoring

electrolytes • blood glucose • acid-base status • coagulation ability • cholesterol • cardiac function • ventilation / pulmonary function
liver enzymes • protein levels • vascular volume • hydration • renal function • immune status

Specialty Technology

blood gas analysis • capnography • CSF analysis • urine analysis • MRI testing • veterinary ultrasound • pulse oximetry
electrocardiography • bile acids testing • neuro-imaging • abdominal ultrasound • echocardiography
thyroid testing • CAT scan • complete blood count

Intensive Care Services

24-hour care and monitoring • specialized anesthetic protocols • blood and blood component transfusions • surgical intervention
post-surgical care • enteral and parenteral nutritional support • advanced diagnostic testing / therapies not available in general practice

Veterinary Specialties

veterinary neurology • critical care • internal medicine • surgery • anesthesia
ophthalmology • nutrition • clinical pathology • toxicology • diagnostic imaging

Animal Boarding / Medical Boarding

epilepsy management, monitoring, and medication • diabetes management • pets requiring daily medications
geriatric pets • separation anxiety • orthopedic difficulties requiring assistance • fear of inclement weather