24/7 emergency care hospital for pets to open on Route 59, near 95th Street, in Naperville
A veterinary hospital that offers urgent care and pet emergency services on a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week basis is setting up shop in Naperville.
Veterinary Emergency Group will open at 3204 S. Route 59 following the completion of remodeling work at a building that once housed an American Mattress store and a Blockbuster Video.
Known as VEG, the vet service chain has 45 locations across the United States. In Illinois, they have offices in Oak Brook and Chicago’s South Loop and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.
The vet group touts on its website that it is open all the time — even on holidays — to care for emergencies for any animal with fur, feathers, shells and scales.
The do not handle routine and preventive care, such as vaccines and spays or neuters, which they will refer to a primary care veterinarian.
The first VEG clinic opened in 2014 by veterinarian Dr. David Bessler in White Plains, New York, a suburb of New York, as a means a way to reinvent the emergency experience. That includes an open floor plan and keeping people and their pets together throughout treatment, even if surgery is involved.
The company does not take appointments because it deals with emergencies.
Anyone with concerns can contact VEG anytime and a veterinarian will answer medical questions and determine if pet should come in for treatment.
Besides care for injuries and illnesses that cannot wait, VEG facilities provide diagnostics and testing, surgery, X-rays, ultrasound, overnight hospitalization and end-of-life care.
The company is hiring for the positions of hospital manager, medical director, emergency veterinary, nursing manager and emergency veterinary technician for the Naperville. Job details are available at veterinaryemergencygroup.com.
Because the new facility on Route 59, south of 95th Street, is in the early stages of construction, no date for its opening was available.
