What We Offer Our Valued Team Members

At Partners Veterinary Group LLC, our goal is to help veterinary professionals and veterinary practice owners build fulfilling and lasting careers. And while we offer an incredible network of support and education, we also offer a variety of benefits to help you enjoy your career to the fullest and balance life and work with greater ease.

The Partners Culture

We strive to become the organization that veterinary professionals aspire to partner with. Our competitive advantage is sustaining a reputation for exceptional client service and state-of-the-art medicine. We offer a unique ownership model for our veterinarian partners, providing significant opportunities that may otherwise be unattainable.

Partners practice owners see an increase in their earning capacity through mentoring and proven administrative resources. Our team creates work environments that cater to positive experiences and professional collaboration. We are constantly evolving, creating innovative ways to deliver cutting-edge medicine by equipping our teams with all the tools necessary to grow their skills and improve their knowledge. We build our teams to be industry leaders, challenge them to develop ideas that will shape our future, and inspire them to enrich the culture of each Partners Animal Hospital.

Team Member Benefits & Support

Benefits we provide to full-time hospital team members include:

  • PTO (Paid Time Off)
  • Health insurance
  • HSA (Health Savings Account)
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Hospital Paid Short Term Disability (Can be bused for maternity leave)
  • Paid holidays
  • Discounted veterinary care
  • Commuter Benefit
  • Continuing education stipends
  • Wellness Stipend
  • EAP (Employee Assistant Program)
  • Fear Free Certification
  • Uniform allowance
  • Tuition assistance program
  • 401k with employer match

Growth Opportunities

Partners Veterinary Group LLC is dedicated to helping veterinary professionals and practice owners find or create growth opportunities. At the hospital level, team members can move up into different positions, such as from kennel assistant to client service representative, or from veterinary assistant to veterinary technician to department lead. Any position – client service representative, veterinary technician, or department lead – can lead to a Practice Manager position. Partners has also created additional roles to fulfill the specific needs of a hospital. Team members working at a Partners animal hospital also have the opportunity to move into an administrative role for Partners Veterinary Group. Associate veterinarians can work their way up to medical director with ownership. Promoting from within and creating new roles is just another way we support our people.

Team Member Wellness

PVG offers an Team Member Wellness Stipend, where full-time team members receive a monthly stipend for qualified financial, mental, and physical wellness-related programs that include:

  • A gym membership or personal exercise equipment
  • Health monitoring devices (like FitBit)
  • Professional financial, debt, and credit counseling
  • Professional individual, family, or marriage counseling
  • Weight loss programs
  • Dietary meal delivery service
  • Nutrition classes
  • Smoking cessation courses/tools
  • Athletic classes (karate, yoga, etc.)
  • Meditation services
  • Acupuncture, massage therapy, or chiropractic adjustments
  • 5K or greater races including road races, biathlons, triathlons, trail runs, and extreme challenge courses

Continuing Education

Continuing education reimbursements are available to all team members and veterinarians at Partners Animal Hospitals. This includes general reimbursement for outside CE courses or conferences – your hospital will pay you to attend courses, webinars, in-person conferences, in-hospital training, lunch and learns, etc. Some of the resources we use include:

  • Veterinary Hospital Managers Association (VHMA)
  • Ignite Veterinary Receptionist Certificate of Excellence Training
  • Patterson Veterinary University
  • Vetfolio
  • Fear Free
  • Learning by Gateway
  • Idexx Learning Center
  • American Animal Hospital Association
  • Veterinary Information Network
  • Zoetis E-learning Center
  • American Veterinary Medical Association
  • DVM 360
  • Pet Poison Helpline
  • OSHA

Personalized Operations
Support Team

Partners Veterinary Group is dedicated to giving team members full support and providing them with the solid, stable foundation they need to focus on what they’re most passionate about – helping pets and their families. We offer an extensive support system to alleviate the pressures of running a business and assist practice owners with administrative, legal, marketing, and accounting responsibilities.

Support by Partners Veterinary Group

Director of Operations/Practice Administrator
Coordination and oversight of the administrative team, management mentorship, and support

Inventory and Vendor Support Manager
Inventory training, OSHA training, vendor support, troubleshooting

Human Resources Manager
Recruiting, benefit support, team member life cycle

Marketing Manager
Web designer support, social media and online reputation support, external marketing and outreach

Finance Account Manager
Accounts payable, invoice processing, accounting support

Technology at Our Hospitals

Partners Animal Hospitals utilize innovative and exciting technologies to deliver outstanding care to our patients.

Veterinary Equipment

  • In-house blood machines
  • Intraocular pressure testing
  • Fluid pumps
  • Multiparameter monitors
  • ECG
  • Pulse oximetry
  • CO2 monitoring
  • Blood pressure
  • Mobile dental unit
  • Digital handheld dental radiography
  • Digital radiography system
  • Oxygen concentrator
  • Oxygen cage
  • Heated surgery table
  • LED microscope
  • Otoscopes and ophthalmoscopes
  • Therapeutic laser
  • Ultrasound system

Practice Technology

  • Integrated online payroll, scheduling, and benefits
  • Access to board-certified radiologists for consults
  • RocketPACS digital imaging cloud storage
  • Pulse by Covetrus online Practice Management System
  • Pulse online client portal to access medical records and payments
  • Covetrus Prescription Management online pharmacy
  • PetDesk online appointment requesting
  • PetDesk mobile app with Partners Perks loyalty program
  • PetDesk email and text healthcare and appointment reminders
  • PetDesk two-way client texting
  • PetDesk Retriever medical record integrated VOIP phone system
  • Vetstoria integrated online appointment scheduling
  • Wi-Fi credit card terminals for convenient checkouts
  • Vetcove inventory ordering platform to expedite the ordering process
  • Security cameras placed in public areas of the hospital
  • Alarm system with a panic button for team use

Community

Partners believes in giving back to the local communities and organizations that allow us to grow and excel at what we do. That’s why we donate our time, love, and energy to aiding non-profits and pet parents to thank them for the amazing work they do to support us and all veterinarians. Green Mile, One More Dog Rescue, Inc., The Chicagoland Lab Rescue, and the Charlotte Corgi Club are just a few examples of organizations we work with, and we can’t wait to add more to our roster.