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Meet Our Team

Compassionate Veterinary Hospice is one of the first of its kind worldwide

Our Team Offers Unmatched Expertise

It takes a team of hospice experts to address the broad array of needs of seriously ill pets and their families. The hospice multidisciplinary team strives for enhanced communication, clarity of roles and responsibilities, positive energy, productivity and caring relationships.

Compassionate Veterinary Hospice offers a family-centered approach that provides medical and nursing care for the pet and support for the family. Our team includes:

  • A veterinarian specializing in hospice and palliative medicine
  • Veterinary technicians specializing in animal hospice nursing, and
  • An experienced Pet Life Celebrant and a Certified Pet Loss Companion to guide and advise you through the many choices available for your pet’s memorialization and final arrangements.

The team works together focusing on the seriously ill pet’s needs; physical, emotional, and social. The goal is to help keep the animal as pain-free as possible, with loved ones nearby until death. The hospice team develops an individualized care plan that meets the pet’s needs for comfort and pain management, and offers the family resources for coping with a stressful reality.

The team works together focusing on the seriously ill pet’s needs; physical, emotional, and social. The goal is to help keep the animal as pain-free as possible, with loved ones nearby until death. The hospice team develops an individualized care plan that meets the pet’s needs for comfort and pain management, and offers the family resources for coping with a stressful reality.

You can choose to have your family vet remain involved in your pet’s medical care. Your family vet and our hospice medical director can work together to coordinate your pet’s medical care. Close veterinary supervision is crucial to ensure quality hospice care, especially when family members or loved ones take upon themselves new responsibilities as the pet’s primary caregivers.

Hospice recognizes primary care givers’ special needs for support.  As a relationship with the hospice begins, hospice staff will want to know how best to support you and your family during this time.

Among its major responsibilities, the multidisciplinary hospice team:

  • Manages the pet’s pain and symptoms;
  • Provides emotional support;
  • Provides needed nursing care, medications, medical supplies, equipment and after-care;
  • Coaches loved ones on how to care for the pet;
  • Delivers special services like massage and physical therapy when needed;
  • Makes short-term inpatient care available when pain or symptoms become too difficult to manage at home, or the caregiver needs respite time;
  • Assists the pet’s family in saying Goodbye;
  • Provides grief support to surviving loved ones and friends; and
  • Assists in memorializing the life shared by creating a tribute in words, artwork, keepsakes, ceremony and more.

Our Multidisciplinary Team Philosophy:

  • Emphasis on pain control, quality of life and what’s best for the animal;
  • Guiding families nonjudgementally to make decisions that are best for them;
  • Support the family’s emotional bond with a seriously ill beloved animal;
  • Acknowledging the pet’s value.

Helping pets with quality of life and peaceful partings

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At Compassionate Veterinary Hospice, you will find the loving care, support and guidance you are looking for to ensure your pet’s final journey is peaceful and gentle for your pet and your entire family.