Simcoe Veterinary Hospital
About UsSince 1950
Operating Under the Highest Veterinary Standards in the Industry
Simcoe Veterinary Hospital, our animal hospital in Barrie, has been serving the community since we first opened our doors in 1950. We came under our current ownership in 2000 and we are still operating in the same original location where veterinary excellence has been offered since the beginning. We are proud to provide the most exceptional care operating under the very highest standards in the veterinary industry.
Our Registered Veterinary Technicians (RVTs) bring immense value to our practice, contributing their knowledge, compassion, and skill to help us provide quality care to our four-legged patients. All of our RVTs are registered with the Ontario Association of Veterinary Technicians, which promotes further education, higher standards of care, and enhancing the welfare of companion animals everywhere. We could not be happier to have these amazing individuals on our team.
What Drives Us
How High Are Our Veterinary Standards?
Our animal hospital in Barrie has been accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association since 2007, showing you just how serious we are about providing the most exceptional possible care to our patients and the most compassionate possible care to our clients. No more than 15% of Canada’s animal hospitals currently hold this distinction! We voluntarily have our animal hospital inspected by the American Animal Hospital Association, during which time they examine us on the basis of more than 900 different standards of care, from cleanliness and surgical standards to continued education and technology.
When you come to our animal hospital in Barrie, we want you to expect the best possible care and the most compassionate service. We look forward to welcoming you to our family!
Our Core Values
Innovation
Simcoe Veterinary Hospital is a multidisciplinary team that embraces the ever-changing medical world by keeping astride of new techniques including advanced dentistry, orthopaedic surgery, and endoscopy.
Equipment: We believe it’s important to invest in high-quality equipment that allows us to offer leading-edge monitoring of our patients whether they are in surgery, in-clinic, or at home.
Our Team: We invest just as heavily in our team. We fulfill our passion for continuing education by attending conferences throughout the year to ensure we continue to offer the latest, greatest and safest services and products.
Solutions: We demonstrate our innovation by offering creative solutions for each pet as no two pets are alike. We also strive to offer you innovative services like our pet mobile, Web store online ordering, and our health plan packages.
Innovation at our practice is essential because it helps us deliver the best possible care for our patients and clients.
Commitment
At Simcoe Veterinary Hospital, we are committed to many things, including:
Quality Care:
We are committed to the highest quality of care, demonstrated through our client and patient care and providing an excellent client experience every time.
Hospital Reputation:
We are committed to the hospital’s reputation and success by fully investing ourselves in our jobs, training, and community.
Ourselves:
We are committed to ourselves by showing up every day prepared to make a positive impact on our team, patients, and clients, further reinforcing our already strong bonds.
Trust
The team at Simcoe Veterinary Hospital understands the tremendous level of trust you place in us when you bring your pets in for veterinary care. Whether your pet is visiting us for a wellness exam with vaccines or for a comprehensive surgery under general anesthetic, you trust us to always provide the highest quality of care.
How We Deliver Trust:
We are able to deliver that trust by first believing in ourselves and in our team. We know that we will offer consistent care and advice based on our enhanced knowledge, skills, and equipment.
Why Trust Matters:
It is essential to us to foster relationships built on this mutual trust. You can depend on us, to be honest with you and to treat your pet as we would our own.
Respect
Respect plays a large role at Simcoe Veterinary Hospital. It starts with our own respect for our clinic and our reputation in the community, and it involves:
- Hospital Atmosphere: We ensure that we offer a friendly, inviting atmosphere, and a well-maintained clinic with state-of-the-art equipment, clean exam rooms, and a sterile surgery suite.
- Respect for You: We know that all of you have your own story, and we strive to understand every situation by being open and honest and treating everyone with a high level of respect.
- Respect for Your Pet: We respect your relationship with your pet and honour this by appreciating the emotional and physical wellbeing of each pet. We use gentle handling, calming pheromone products in clinic, and always provide appropriate pain medication.
Creating this environment of respect would not be possible if we didn’t first respect ourselves. Each and every one of us recognizes the high level of compassion, kindliness, and care we provide to the team.
Empowerment
Working at Simcoe Veterinary Hospital isn’t just a “job” for any one of us. We start each day knowing that we have the power to affect every person and every pet that we encounter.
- Decision Making: Through the innovative equipment we use, to the commitment we have to you and your pet, to the trust and respect that we have for each other, we know that we are empowered to make decisions for ourselves and for the clinic.
- Expectations: We are given the opportunity to improve ourselves to exceed not just our expectations, but also your expectations.
- Empowering You: We also empower you to make the best decision for you and your pet by educating you and helping you at every step of the way.
Being Happy & Having Fun
We take our work seriously at Simcoe Veterinary Hospital, but we approach every day, every client, and every pet with a happy and positive attitude.
- Because We Value You and Your Pet: Our mutual love and passion for what we do have created a tight-knit group that we hope extends to include you and your pet.
- Because We Care: We share in the joy of meeting your new little family member, we keep in touch with you before and after each surgical procedure because we know you’re worried, and we feel your sadness when saying goodbye to a loved one.
- Because Actions Dictate Atmosphere: We embrace our individual weirdness because we think it keeps the day-to-day interesting, and it creates a fun environment for your family.
Meet Our Team
Here at Simcoe Veterinary Hospital, we’re passionate about making and keeping pets well, but our passion isn’t just limited to the walls of our hospital. It extends to pets in the community as well. With our involvement, our mission is to help pets get the medical care they need, assist in pet rescue efforts, and help pets find loving homes.
The following are the pet organizations with whom we partner:
If you would like to volunteer or lend your services in another way, or if you’d like to learn more about our involvement, give us a call. Together, we can help more pets down the road to wellness while helping them find their forever homes!