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America’s Best Veterinary Hospitals
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America’s Best Veterinary Hospitals

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* Hospitals are organized according to state and states appear in alphabetical order. Note that there are no rankings.

*If a state is not listed, the hospitals in that state are still being evaluated or TCR is not currently recommending any veterinary hospitals in that state.

ARIZONA

CALIFORNIA

COLORADO

CONNECTICUT

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

FLORIDA

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

 

MISSISSIPPI

NEW JERSEY

    • See above.

NEW YORK

    Nellie Brill, a five-year-old field Labrador with a chronic knee injury, works with a team of specialists at the Animal Medical Center in midtown Manhattan.  

The Animal Medical Center is widely regarded as the best veterinary specialty hospital in the United States, if not the world. The AMC is also the country’s largest non-profit veterinary teaching hospital. 

 

  • BLUE PEARL DOWNTOWN (NEW YORK, NY)
    • TCR does not recommend this hospital unless travel to the AMC is not possible in an emergency. The Canine Review’s first choice in veterinary care is The Animal Medical Center.  However, in the event that you do use this hospital for any serious medical issue or emergency, we recommend moving to or seeking a second opinion at the AMC when possible. 
  • East End Veterinary Center (Riverhead, NY)
    • The only 24/7/365 veterinary hospital in Suffolk County. Also VECCS-certified (Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society). Keep their information on hand if you are taking your dog out east. 
  • · Guardian Veterinary Specialists  (Brewster, NY)
    • So far, the new and much-anticipated 24/7 specialty hospital appears to be having trouble with its people skills, based on this flooding of negative reviews. 
    • Not every client comes away dissatisfied, however. In 2018, billionaire heiress and equestrian Georgina Bloomberg of North Salem wrote a series of posts on her Instagram account praising and thanking GVS for caring for one of her dogs. 
    • There are a few truly excellent doctors whom the hospital has been able to recruit, though most of those top docs are only there one day per week.
    • We strongly recommend KBVC unless this hospital is closest in an emergency.
    • We strongly recommend the AMC for complicated cases or major surgery. 
    • If you can’t travel to Manhattan to the AMC, our second recommendation for specialized care would be Cornell in Stamford. 
    • The rehabilitation therapist, Linda McMahon, has a very good reputation.
  •       VCA KATONAH BEDFORD VET CENTER (BEDFORD HILLS, NY)
    • The Canine Review’s first choice for routine and emergency veterinary care anywhere in Westchester, with the caveat that those for whom the hospital is also the dog’s primary care provider are going to have access to the best overall care here.
    • Because KBVC is both a general practice and a specialty/emergency referral hospital, KB’s policy is not take GP clients who come in via referral from an outside DVM, so as not to discourage other veterinarians in the area from referring patients to KBVC.  In other words, when a person is referred to KBVC by his or her existing primary vet and then realizes how much better KBVC is than whatever non-24/7 practice without board certified specialists they’ve been using for primary care, that person is not permitted, at that point, to switch to KBVC.   (Disclosure: TCR’s Editor-in-Chief is a longtime, regular client.)

NORTH CAROLINA

OHIO

PENNSYLVANIA

SOUTH CAROLINA

 

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

WISCONSIN

Be sure to check back for updates to this list as this is a preliminary edition!

Neither The Canine Review, nor its reporters, nor any of its editors receive or have ever received financial compensation or incentives of any kind from the entities that appear on this list. All TCR reporters have clauses in their contracts which state as follows: “You represent and warrant that you do not have any conflicts of interest associated with the subject of the Work that you are assigned, including having been employed or retained for free-lance assignments or turned down for employment or free-lance assignments by the subject of the Work, and that no members of your immediate family have any such conflicts that have not been disclosed to your supervising editor.” 

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