Comprehensive multi-specialty veterinary facility and 24/7 emergency service for pets.
COVID-19 UPDATE: Pittsburgh Veterinary and Emergency Specialty Center in North Hills is OPEN and has a new, unique safety protocol in place to help us keep you, your pets and our hospital teams safe. Please visit our website to be aware of the new patient intake procedures for the hospital. The largest and most comprehensive specialty veterinary hospital in western Pennsylvania, we are fully equip
ped as a 24-hour emergency and specialty animal hospital and as a center for advanced specialty care. We use sophisticated diagnostic equipment such as a CT scanner, linear accelerator, four ultrasound machines, and high-field MRI. Our hospital features a 24 hour intensive care unit, multiple surgical suites and dedicated suites for endoscopy, ultrasound and oncology. Our staff includes a veterinary social worker who is available to assist clients who are in the midst of making difficult decisions about their pets. We are part of the BluePearl network of veterinary specialty and emergency pet hospitals. https://Mars.com/privacy
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In response to continued reports of an upswing in respiratory illness impacting dogs across various US states, Trupanion invites you to join their exclusive free live Q&A webinar, “Separating Fact, Fiction, and Uncertainty: Canine Respiratory Illness Q&A” to be held on November 30th, 2023 at 4:30pm PT / 7:30pm ET.
Register and submit your questions for the expert panelists at https://trupan.in/3sMXAwj
We are once again collecting unwrapped toys for those family's experiencing hardship during the holiday season for the 96.1 KISS Stuff-A-Bus. There will be a box for donations in the first and second floor lobbies in the North Hills and one at the South location until November 30th! 🎁
Our blood bank team attended the Pet Expo this weekend in hopes of getting new canine blood donors! If you'd like to learn more about the program, please visit https://bluepearlvet.com/blood-bank/
We are currently in the process of upgrading our phone system in the North and South Hills Hospitals. During this upgrade, we will not be able to transfer calls from one hospital to another. We apologize for the inconvenience and any connection issues that may arise during the next few weeks.
Vet Tech Week "Decades of Dedication"-We celebrated the 1990's with a coffee bar and Green Pet Funeral Home and Crematory sponsored a hospital lunch for our staff!
Vet Tech Week "Decades of Dedication"-We celebrated the 1920's with a speakeasy where we served mocktails and we celebrated the 1960's with a tie-dye station!
Last week we celebrated Vet Teck Week with all of our amazing Veterinary Technicians and support staff. Our theme for the 2023 Vet Tech Week was "Decades of Dedication" where we celebrated a new decade each day!
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Last week we celebrated our amazing Facilities Coordinators! Matthew and Bert do so much for our Pittsburgh Market Hospitals and are truly appreciated by our entire staff!🔨🔧
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As of 9pm Saturday 9.16.23 our North location is at full capacity . We are sorry for the inconvenience this may cause . We are happy to try and give you alt 24 vet hospitals that may be available to see your pets this evening .
We appreciate your patience and understanding.
Our North Hills location has open Client Service positions that we are looking to fill. Our Client Services Team is the heart of our hospital, the front of the house, and a vital part or providing exceptional service. In this position there is always exciting opportunities to train and develop your skills. We offer growth opportunities to level up in your current position as you progress in your career. We have a truly renowned team of welcoming, ambitious, and enthusiastic individuals. Our client service team is never short of fun. They truly do embody team engagement, it's never just another day in the office! Apply now and join our Client Service Team today!
https://careers.bluepearlvet.com/us/en/hospital-support-management
The North and South Hills Hospital locations are looking for qualified candidates to fill numerous open positions. Please click the link to apply.
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We celebrated our 2023 Associate Picnic at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium 🐘
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Please be advised we are resealing our parking lot Saturday 8.26 and Sunday 8.27. We appreciate your patience .
Join us in raising money for Frankie's Friends this month! August is our Paws for a Cause campaign, where we come together and gather donations that help us provide grants towards life-saving care for pets and their owners. Frankie's Friends Matches every dollar up to $125,000!!! If you are in our North Hills hospital, stop by and check out our bracelets, badge reels, and baked goods! Treat yourself for a good cause!
Last week Lorraine Fritz celebrated her 25th work anniversary! Thank you Lorraine for everything that you do for this hospital!
Penny Lane celebrated her 20th birthday with her oncology family yesterday wearing a hat made by her technician Taylor Holbrook. Happy Birthday Penny Lane!🎂
Please be advised that our South Hills Hospital will be having a staff training session on Tuesday July 11th 7:30-9am. We would appreciate it if our clients could try to call outside of these times so our staff are able to participate in their training. Emergency calls and visits will still be welcome during this time! Thank you!
HAPPY WORLD BLOOD DONOR DAY! Our blood bank team is celebrating with cupcakes and spreading the word about our pawsome blood donors! 🩸
Our staff had fun celebrating National Dinosaur Day yesterday! 🦖🦕
We had another day with our service dogs, getting their eye exams up to date with the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists Annual Service Animal Eye Exam Event. We love seeing all of these beautiful working dogs!
We made it through the first 2 days of our ACVO Annual Service Animal Eye Exam Event. We have seen so many wonderful service animals and their owners. We love providing this service to these pups who provide the valuable services they provide!
✨Happy Star Wars Day✨
Final Day of Client Service Week. We had some Raffle Basket Winners and these wonderful cupcakes to close out the week. This week was also National Infertility Awareness Week and we recognized this by making some banana/pineapple(symbol of infertility) smoothies. Thank you, again, to all of the wonderful, compassionate client service workers who make our hospitals run so smoothly! We appreciate you!
Day 3 of Client Service Week was a huge success. Green Pet Funeral Home and Crematory, some of the most compassionate, cooperative, kind people we know, sponsored a hospital wide lunch in honor of our client service team. Thank you!! We also got these amazing personalized cookies from Wedgewood Pharmacy. They spoiled our team today... but of course, the team deserves it!!
Some fun the Client Service Team had at their Quarterly Meeting. Food, Fun and some important work! And Day 2 of Client Service Week. It was time to dress up as their favorite circus character.
It is Client Service Team Week and we can't express enough appreciation for our associates who work on our front lines. Compassionate, intelligent, multi-tasking, Zen warriors. "Connecting People and Practice" is what they do. We thank every one of you!! We're celebrating all week with a Big Top theme. :)
WE ARE UP AND RUNNING AGAIN! THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!!
Beth Rossi and I spoke with the students at the Steel Center for Career and Technical Ed about careers with BluePearl Pet Hospital. The students were attentive and curious, and we found that they have an amazing Veterinary Assistant program. We would be excited to have their students apply with us when they graduate!
My name is Tiberius. I am part of the BluePearl Pittsburgh family. I want to tell you that the humans who work here are the most amazing people and are the best kinds of heroes!
The month of May is National Service Animal Eye Exam month! Our BluePearl Pet Hospital will start registrations on April 1st. 🐾
March is National Color Therapy Month ! Our North Hills associates have been enjoying coloring all month long with our beautiful wall-art. 💙🌈
Did someone say SHENANIGANS?!🍀💚. Happy St. Patrick’s Day .
Today we treated our North Hills team to a waffle breakfast with some secret leprechaun juice ☘️💚
The always fashionable Miss Piper wants to be the first to remind everyone the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o' March!🍀
Our surgery department celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday with a Valentine's Day Box Contest. Our winners were Carissa in first place with her dad joke box, Jinnelle in second place with her cactus box, and Krysta in third place with her heart factory box! 💌
Dr. MacKillop with our Neurology department performed surgery on K9 Blak two weeks ago. Blak is a member of the Armstrong County Police Department and we are optimistic that he will be able to return to the police force in the next few months!
This past weekend our associates enjoyed a holiday party at Dave & Buster's. Amanda Karpa was announced as the 2022 Associate Of The Year. Congratulations Amanda! 🎉
Shamrock was in the Christmas spirit at her recent visit with Oncology! ☘️
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As of 8pm tonight, December 12th, until tomorrow, December 13th, at 6am our North Hills Hospital will be seeing critically ill patients only. This includes patients who may require emergency surgery, are oxygen dependent, severely anemic, severe trauma or have a urinary obstruction. If you are concerned that your pet may need to be seen, please call ahead first. We thank everyone for being patient and understanding while we navigate through these times and we appreciate your support and kindness. ❤️ PVSEC-BP North Hills
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807 Camp Horne Road
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Pride is about visibility and acceptance, dignity and love. As we celebrate Pride at BluePearl, we’ve asked our Associates to tell us what Pride means to them. #pride #beingbluepearl #bluepearlpride
This is Shadow, an onco patient being treated for lymphoma,and was the onco doc-box Chief Feline Officer for today. He had LOTS of opinions and was not shy telling us exactly what he thought about things!💛
Happy 3 year cancerversary, Regina! The Queen Genes was diagnosed with hypercalcemic T-cell lymphoma in February 2016, and is one of THE happiest pibble ladies on the planet! Your onco team loves you!!
Charlie was treated by our emergency and neurology services for bacterial meningitis. Bacterial meningitis is a rare, life threatening cause of brain disease in dogs. Unlike humans, bacterial meningitis is not contagious. It can come from any infection in the body that spreads through the blood stream or via direct penetration into the brain. His mom, Lilly sent us this wonderdul video update. He is doing amazingly well!
Ryley is a medical oncology and radiation patient who is having THE BEST SUMMER OF HER LIFE and celebrating her 1 year cancerversary at the beach! #hopeforpetcancer
Six months ago, Joe had a ruptured disc in his back and was paralyzed. He had a hemilaminectomy (surgical procedure used to correct slipped or herniated discs in the spine) with neurologist, Dr. Mikoloski, and is back to living his life to the fullest. The video at the :14 second mark is Joe today! 😃
Another great video update from surgery patient, Rosa. Rosa had both TPLO's done by Dr. Anderson. Prior to surgery, Rosa would cry when using the stairs, and hesitate to get up and down onto things. Her family thought she had torn a ligament, but when they brought her to PVSEC they learned she had torn both. They decided to do both TPLO's at once to cut down on recovery time. Rosa's family says, "Rosa has recovered well and we are so happy. She was up and walking assisted the night of surgery. We did all of her restrictions, as instructed by surgery, and she was back playing with her siblings in no time. We are beyond happy with how she has done. We can't thank the surgery department enough."
Meet Rooney, the 6-year-old miracle dog and totally adorable Samoyed! Rooney's family writes, "We first visited PVSEC after 2 failed knee surgeries performed at a different veterinary hospital. Rooney had developed staph infections at both surgical sites. He also had a fractured tibia after the first knee surgery. Rooney had become nearly paralyzed with a severe nerve problem in both back legs as a side effect of his antibiotic therapy and had severe muscle atrophy. He wore a lift harness so we could help him stand, walk, eat, and go to the bathroom. After three days of diagnostics, Dr. Payne and Dr. MacKillop were very direct with us about Rooney’s future. If he was to improve, it would take months, even years, and the outcome was unknown. We had a very difficult decision to make. After 8 months, two surgeries, and rehabilitation, Rooney is walking, running, and playing again! We made the right decision! We sincerely thank the front desk staff, the medical assistants, nurses, and techs who spent the long nights with Rooney. Their jobs do not always allow good news and outcomes, but they always took our calls and answered all of our questions and concerns any hour of the day and night with kindness and professionalism. We are grateful to have been connected to Dr. Payne and Dr. MacKillop. They are geniuses at what they do and blessed with a bedside manner that made us feel like family! Many thanks and blessings to PVSEC!" -- The Prettyman Family + Rooney
Bubbles' Mom sent us the wonderful update and we wanted to share it with you. "A year ago today would have been a tragedy for us if it wasn't for you guys at PVSEC (Dr. MacKillop, Jessika, PT and neurology) emergency staff was so kind to us and provided us with hope when my paralyzed pup was sitting in your ER. It was such a traumatic time for Bubbles and me as well. I was 6 months pregnant and would have definitely lost my baby if I had lost Bubbles. I honestly don't think she would've survived if it wasn't for the constant love and hopeful attitudes your staff had. You guys sat with her on your lunch breaks. Doc came in on his day off and everyone answered my hundred sobbing calls a day. I honestly can not thank you enough for saving my pup. Here's a video of her....this summer playing at doggie daycare. Here are also some pics of her with her sister Sammie at birth and during the pens playoff. Thank you a million times. You mean the world to us." -Sarah and Ray Younger Bubbles and Samantha"
Neurologic problems can be a little dizzying. Cody was brought to PVSEC for symptoms of severe vertigo. He was evaluated by Dr. Edward MacKillop and the top concern was encephalitis (inflammation of the brain). The diagnosis was confirmed on MRI and based on Cody's age/breed the top concern was GME. GME is an autoimmune disease where the body attacks the brain causing severe neurologic symptoms and clinically is similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) in people. The prognosis is variable but in severe cases it is often life threatening. Cody was immediately started on IV steroids and immune suppressants and after 3 nerve racking days in the ICU he started to respond. The video shows Cody when he first came in and at a recent recheck appointment. Cody is not completely "out of the woods" but he is doing very well and his family are ecstatic with how he is doing.
Bubbles is a little bit of a nervous dog. She spooks easily and unfortunately she got scared and ran head first into a wall. She was instantly paralyzed from the neck down and was brought right to the PVSEC emergency department. MRI of her neck found that she had Wobbler Syndrome (premature arthritis of the neck causing spinal cord compression) which had predisposed her to a severe spinal cord injury. She was hospitalized for almost a week for physical therapy and made gradual progress. She eventually came back for surgery to help improve her further and prevent future deterioration. Tune in tomorrow for an update on how she is doing.
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THE TUMULTUOUS TALE OF PINTO PETE: Pinto Pete is a mild-mannered cat with a big personality. He has seen a lot of veterinarians over the last 2 months and spent a lot of time at PVSEC. He was first seen by University Veterinary Specialists for what appeared to be a urinary obstruction. They unblocked him but Pete still wasn't himself. He had some unusual discharge from his mouth and the focus turned to a possible infection in his mouth. He was started on antibiotics but still didn't get better. Finally, his symptoms became clearly neurologic and he was sent over to PVSEC neurology. An MRI of his brain was performed and found a massive brain tumor. Pete came in at 1 pm on a Wednesday and had his tumor taken out the next morning at 9 am. He spent a tough week at PVSEC under the supervision of Drs. MacKillop and Mikoloski (Neurology) and Dr. Guenther (Critical Care) and the care of the neurology, surgery and ICU techs. Pete might have even seen the bright shining light right after surgery but his brain decided to straighten up and fly right. He got a goofy hair-cut (Dr. MacKillop likes all his patients to look like him) but his tumor is out but he's home now and doing well. We'll send post another update as soon as we see Pete back next week.
Here's Pete at home about 2 weeks after surgery
This is Neurology patient, King. He is only 5 months old and is being treated for Coonhound Paralysis or Polyradiculoneuritis. This is inflammation of the nerve roots. The primary treatment is physical therapy. Our Physical Therapy/Rehabilitation department is working with King to help him walk again. The prognosis is good in mild cases.
Dermatology patient, MJ, is doing great on oral allergy vaccine and an anti-itch medication. She is always so happy to see the doctor and technicians. The treats might have something to do with it.
Here's Proof that cardiology patient Cassius is feeling better. We love this handsome, goofy boy!"
Basil had a rough year. He was suddenly paralyzed in his hind limbs and this got him to PVSEC. MRI of the spine was consistent with a fibrocartilagenous spinal embolism (spinal stroke). There is no treatment for this disease other than aggressive physical therapy. His owners were up for the work and gradually over a few months got Basil back to almost normal. PVSEC got a speedy diagnosis but Basil's family did all the hard work. Thanks Basil for making us proud!
COVID-19 UPDATE: Pittsburgh Veterinary and Emergency Specialty Center in North Hills is OPEN and has a new, unique safety protocol in place to help us keep you, your pets and our hospital teams safe. Please visit our website to be aware of the new patient intake procedures for the hospital. The largest and most comprehensive specialty veterinary hospital in western Pennsylvania, we are fully equipped as a 24-hour emergency and specialty animal hospital and as a center for advanced specialty care. We use sophisticated diagnostic equipment such as a CT scanner, linear accelerator, four ultrasound machines and Western Pennsylvania’s only high-field MRI. Our hospital features a 24 hour intensive care unit, multiple surgical suites and dedicated suites for endoscopy, ultrasound and oncology. Our staff includes a veterinary social worker who is available to assist clients who are in the midst of making difficult decisions about their pets. We are part of the BluePearl network of veterinary specialty and emergency pet hospitals.
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