Our story
"WE HELP PEOPLE TO HELP PETS"
Animal Urgent Center was built out of frustration — and a belief that pet owners deserve better. After years in emergency veterinary medicine, we kept watching the same painful pattern: families facing impossible decisions because costs were hidden, wait times were brutal, and corporate clinics kept putting margins ahead of medicine. We decided to do something about it.
First in the country to post prices publicly
We were the first urgent care veterinary clinic in the nation to publish our prices directly on our website. No quotes, no surprises, no sticker shock at checkout. Families deserve to know what care costs before they walk through the door.
You stay with your pet — for all of it
During exams, diagnostics, and treatments. No back rooms, no mystery. Just open, honest care where you can see exactly how your pet is being looked after.
Our support staff are salaried
Veterinary technicians and assistants are the backbone of any clinic — and chronically underpaid across the industry. We chose a different model: real wages, real stability. We believe we're the only clinic in the nation doing this. It changes lives inside our building and out — and it makes us a better clinic.
These aren't marketing promises. They're decisions we've made every single day since we opened — because our community deserves a clinic that puts patients, families, and the people who care for them above everything else.
Feel free to contact us, or check in using our online virtual queue system!
Meet Our Doctors
Our urgent care team is led by Dr. Elizabeth Woodworth and Dr. Roseanne Palmieri, both experienced in managing urgent and complex veterinary cases. We also offer integrative therapies through Dr. Kate Gunasekaran — including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and veterinary chiropractic care — as a complement to traditional treatment.