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Capital Veterinary Specialists is excited to announce that we are now mobile! See the brochure below for details.
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Capital Veterinary Specialists is excited to announce that we now offer PennHIP certification! If your dog is a high-risk breed for hip displasia, come see us for a consultation.
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Capital Veterinary Specialists welcomes two additions to our team of amazing doctors! Welcome to Dr. Carl Jehn and Dr. Paul Sorrentino! See their profiles on the “Doctors” page under the “Our Team” tab.
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Capital Veterinary Specialists Jacksonville is Open!
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Capital Veterinary Specialists is very excited to announce the opening of a new specialty hospital in Jacksonville, Florida! Dr. Kevin Drygas and Dr. Mark Walker are expanding Capital Veterinary Specialists and their practice philosophy into North East Florida. The growing number of patients and owners traveling from Jacksonville to Tallahassee combined with the outreach from local Jacksonville veterinarians has necessitated a hospital for therapy and care.
The new Jacksonville location is located conveniently in the center of town at the intersection of Hwy 295 and San Jose Blvd! (see map below this announcement). We have purchased a 2 acre property with a 13,000 square foot facility equipped with a state of the art UNDERWATER TREAD MILL, an indoor, solar-heated, and humidity-controlled SWIMMING POOL, and a spacious surgical recovery facility. We are currently remodeling and equipping the facility to match our Tallahassee Hospital, and when completed we will have the following:
- 7 exam rooms and client conference stations.
- Digital radiology suite
- Ultrasound and procedures suite
- Indoor swimming pool facility
- Underwater physiotherapy suite
- Internal medicine and receiving suite
- Surgical suites
- Endoscopy/ bronchoscopy/ cystoscopy and minimally invasive suite
- Recovery and hospital boarding facility
- Intensive Care Unit and Critical Care
We are working efficiently to complete the project and look forward to opening for service and care in the new year. Thank you all for your continued support and stay tuned for updates on our progress!
- We are excited to announce the news that Capital Veterinary Specialists LLC, is open for business at our new location! After almost one year in Tallahassee, we have outgrown our current facility and have relocated to a larger specialty hospital dedicated to the practice of specialty internal medicine and surgery. Our new facility provides for more examination rooms, a larger operatory suite, a dedicated internal medicine procedures room, and dedicated surgical and internal medicine treatment areas. In addition, it is closer location to our CT and MRI imaging facilities and has on-site continuing education space for referring veterinarians and clients! We are conveniently located in the East Wood Medical Plaza off Riggins Road.
Stay tuned for more details regarding opening day and upcoming events!
New Address: 2414 East Plaza Dr. – Tallahassee FL – 32308
- CVS now has access to off-site MRI capabilities! Check out our Advanced Imaging page for more details.
- Orthotics and prosthetics for you pet are now available on site here at Capital Veterinary Specialists through our partners and friends -Williams Orthotics and Prosthetics. www.williamsoandp.com
- We now offer a program for postoperative orthopedic patients providing Cold Compression Therapy for you pet during the two weeks immediately following surgery! To read more about the benefits of cold compression therapy go to: http://www.gameready.com
- Continuing education lecture programs lead by Dr. Drygas and Dr. Walker, are being provided for supporting primary care veterinarians in regions surrounding Tallahassee, more information coming soon!
- Ophthalmology is now seeing patients and doing surgery every Wednesday. Dr. Brown, Dr. Chandler and team are board certified ophthalmologists and have been serving Tallahassee, Pensicola and the surrounding regions for years! www.animaleyevets.com
- Capital Veterinary Specialists is open from 8 am to 5 pm receiving appointments for surgery and internal medicine and performing medical and surgical procedures daily.
- Check out the comments below and/or our Facebook site for new and exciting information about CVS!
Veterinary doctors and technicians, please join us at our Jacksonville location on October 8th at 6:30 PM for an Open House! CE credits are available and dinner and drinks will be provided. Please contact us at info@capvetspecialists.com for more details.
And for the general public, dont feel left out! We will be having an Open House for you Saturday Oct 10th from 9 AM to 2 PM! If you are in the Jacksonville area, come stop by to see our facility!
Referring veterinarians,
It has been about a month since we moved and we are happy to say that everything is going very smoothly. In fact, why don’t you check out the new place during an Open House event we will be having Thursday November 7th starting at 6 PM. There will be food, drinks, hospital tours, and lecture discussions. Please call the hospital to RSVP.
There are some updates (with pics!) of some of our past patients on our Facebook site (https://www.facebook.com/capvetspecialists). Go and check em out!
We are excited to announce that we now have access to off-site MRI capabilities! MRI stands for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and is a medical imaging technique used in radiology to visualize internal structures of the body in detail. MRI makes use of the property of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to image nuclei of atoms inside the body. MRI can create more detailed images of the human body than possible with X-rays. (Source: Wikipedia) MRI images are highly sensitive, noninvasive, state-of-the-art, and are the “gold standard” in human medicine. We strive to employ the most advanced techniques and procedures in order to continue to provide the best care to your pets and we are delighted to add MRI capabilities to our toolbox. Check out our Advanced Imaging page for some sample images!
We have new career opportunities available at CVS! Please view them at http://www.capvetspecialists.com/whats-new/opportunities/.
Welcome our new staff members! Nell, our front desk coordinator. Sarah, our full time employee who aspires to go to veterinary school and is currently interviewing at multiple universities. Pattie, our part time surgery technician who is also a local Tallahassee student. Alicia, our part time medicine technician who is currently finishing her graduate degree. Alicia and Pattie both work at Allied Emergency Clinic and care for our patients after hours as well. Thanks for all their help!
Dr. Walker recently returned from Orlando where he was invited to teach endoscopy to international and national veterinarians at the North American Veterinary Conference in Orlando. This conference is an excellent forum for veterinarians to collaborate and learn current concepts in veterinary medicine.
December 8th, from 10 AM to 1 PM, Capital Veterinary Specialists’ will be holding their official Open House celebration! This event is open to the public, supporting veterinarians, and veterinary technicians. Please join us for hospital tours, informative case presentations, food and fun for the whole family. And don’t forget to bring your pets!!!
Thanks to everyone that came out to our Open House. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Come visit us any time!
Pet owners, we have posted evaluation forms in the “Forms” page under the “Pet Owners” menu (see link below). We are always trying to provide the best service and care possible, so please fill one out and send it to us so we can continue improving!
http://www.capvetspecialists.com/pet-owners/forms/
December 8th – Capital Veterinary Specialists’ official Open House celebration! Open to the public, supporting veterinarians, and veterinary technicians. Please join us for hospital tours, informative case presentations, food and fun for the whole family. Pets welcome! More details to follow!
November 14th – We will be holding a Continuing Education lecture series with round table discussions in Tallahassee from 7 to 9 pm. Lecture topics will include “Hypertension in dogs and cats” and “Urogenital surgery – Case presentation and techniques review”. Save the date! Venue to be announced soon!
The venue for the Nov 14 CE course has been set. It will be held at Georgio’s restaurant on Thomasville Rd. Please contact us if you havent already and let us know if you plan on attending. See you there!
Thanks to all our supporting veterinarians for joining Kevin, Mark and Mike Poland for the Tallahassee Continuing Education lecture series. We had a great time and all learned a lot on the topics of arthroscopy, neurosurgery, liver disease, heart disease and pharmacy law requirements!