24-Hour Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service

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24-Hour Animal Emergency and Critical Care Service

If your pet has an emergency please call 518-783-3198.

We are pleased to welcome a full complement of emergency doctors and a new Critical Care specialist available for emergency walk-ins, referrals, and transfers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 152 Sparrowbush Road in Latham.

The emergency service’s primary missions

Provide the highest caliber of innovative and engaged emergency medicine and critical care
Provide exemplary, team-based care of hospitalized specialty service patients
Serve our community in alleviating the suffering of strays and wildlife

The emergency and critical care service is supported by full-time LVTs, assistants, and reception staff so that we can maintain the highest level of patient care at all times whether a patient is brought to UVS for overnight supportive care or advanced treatment modalities and interventional care.

Continuation of care

With both critical care referrals and direct transfers alike we recognize that frequent communication will be essential in ensuring the best possible collaboration and medical care. If your pet presents to the emergency service your family veterinarian will be immediately notified of your pet’s arrival and kept updated with a case summary or referral report sent (either via fax or email) at the time of discharge from the hospital. If a pet requires continued care the pet’s primary care veterinarian will be contacted during business hours to discuss their preference:

Transfer directly back to the general practice facility
Continued care with the Emergency and Critical Care Service at UVS
Transfer to another specialty service within UVS
Transfer to a tertiary referral institution if appropriate care cannot be provided at UVS