PATIENT CARE FIRST

”Having the support of Blue River allows us to enhance patient and client care, because it allows me to focus on what's most important, and that is the patients, and the clients, and the medicine. They're behind the scenes. They're handling the HR, they're handling the finance, they're helping with operations, but they're really allowing me to focus on my job, which is being the best doctor that I can be.

Zachary Joseph, DVM - Medical DirectorScott Lake Veterinary Center, Prior Lake, MN

PRACTICING MEDICINE MY WAY

”What I appreciate and enjoy with Blue River is that I can be the doctor. I can see my patients, focus on them and their care and their needs while I have a strong management team that helps the facility and the practice run smoothly. For most veterinary professionals looking to join a practice, when they hear the notion of a corporately-owned practice, they think that you're going to be thrown into a certain system of how you practice veterinary medicine. Blue River just does not operate that way.

Lisa Pina, DVM - Medical DirectorHeights Veterinary Clinic, Houston, TX

MEDICAL AUTONOMY

”When you're a solo practitioner, you have a lot of independence, which I thought I would lose some of it working at the setting of a corporate practice. But it actually was not the case. One of the things that I enjoy about working with Blue River is the fact that we have autonomy in the things we do, the decisions we make at the local level. In other words, yes, we are a corporate practice, but the decisions we may make on a daily basis are not mandated by corporate. I’m able to focus on medicine and the things that I enjoyed the most, the ones that I'm most passionate about, which is what keeps me going despite being in the business for 26 years.

Heriberto Martinez, DVM - Medical DirectorHeights Hospital for Animals, Houston, TX