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About The Company

Mission Pet Health is one of the leading veterinary care organizations in the U.S., formed by the merger of Southern Veterinary Partners and Mission Veterinary Partners in December 2024. At Mission Pet Health, we are reimagining excellence in veterinary care by providing world-class support to hospital teams on a hyper-local basis. We are committed to delivering exceptional service, personalized medicine, and innovative experiences to our clients while empowering our team members with medical autonomy and unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional development. Our WAG values (Work Together. Amaze. Grow.) are the fuel behind how we operate — from the hospitals to Home Office. Together, we’re driving a lasting impact for our teams, the communities we serve, and the pets we care for.

Company headquarters
Headquarters Location

Birmingham, AL

Number of employees
Number Of Employees
20,500
Company industry
Industry
Animal Health Care
Company ceo
CEO
Jay Price, DVM

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Why is Mission Pet Health a Most Loved Workplace®?

“Grow” is one of our core values – Collectively as a company, as teams within departments, and as individuals, we are always growing our skills, capabilities, and knowledge, as fast, or faster, than we are growing our footprint across the country. We are also growing with a significant focus on scalability, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. However, none of that works without the amazing teammates at the heart of this company. We hire, engage, and retain the best in the industry (and have the best DVM retention rate in the industry) by empowering people to use their expertise to own their roles, their career, and their success.

We live our core WAG values (Work Together. Amaze. Grow.) every day. Working together, amazing each other, and growing together are critical to the success of every single person on this team, and our success as a company. We work hard, we play hard, and we always recognize that our purpose is to enable and empower those who work on the front lines of animal care and animal health to do their best work, providing personalized care with exceptional hospitality.

Dr. Jay Price is the only General Practice Veterinarian leading a company like ours in the nation. As a founder and CEO of Mission, having taken the company through rounds of investment, he chooses to stay and invest his time and energy both due to his love of, and dedication to, Veterinary Medicine and its practitioners, and his desire to create a broad and lasting positive impact for those who have invested their time and efforts as Mission teammates. He embodies WAG values, and emphasizes and rewards them across the company. He will give up his chair to make sure everyone has a seat at the table, and prefers to shine a light on others’ accomplishments rather than his own. He never backs down from a challenge, and always supports teammates going through challenges of their own.

While we all have leadership and work in functional teams, every person in this company is empowered to reach out to teammates at any level with thoughts, concerns, and ideas. Our C-suite (we call them the Senior Leadership Team) is accessible and available to virtually anyone in the company who needs to speak with them. We equally value how we get things done, as well as the results we deliver, and there is less focus on “who gets credit” than on what we accomplish together.

“Work Together” is our first core value at Mission. We work closely in cross-functional teams to accomplish common goals – whether it’s the care of a pet, the acquisition or launch of a new hospital, or the creation and roll out of a new capability that supports our field teams. We are goal- and delivery- oriented, with a high level of “get stuff done” valued among all of our teams. We respect each others’ expertise and skills, and highly value collaboration as we are focused on delivering results.

We support our teammates with comprehensive wellness packages, including health, dental, vision, critical illness, life, accident, hospital indemnity, long and short term disability insurance. We provide generous paid time off for teammates, including No Negative Accrual for DVMs. We provide DVM maternity leave, and support programs for those teammates who are caring for elderly, going through life events like divorce, birth of a child, moving to a new community, and buying or selling a home. We provide mental health counseling to support teammates through difficult life events, as well as a hefty 401k match, and support with retirement planning. We provide significant support for career growth and education (see above!), and through all this, focus on living our WAG values in how we work together and collaborate every day.

Testimonials

Hear From Our Employees

1) The leadership team, specifically the c-suite level, are some of the most amazing people that truly care about their employees.
2) The fantastic growth that this company has experienced has allowed for more opportunities for individual growth and creative thinking to develop new processes.
3) We have a unique culture that you can't find just anywhere--we work hard but play hard too!

Work/life balance, growth opportunities, amazing teammates

Laidback and fun culture
Hard work is recognized and appreciated
Fabulous leaders and CEO

Everyday I'm challenged to do better than the previous day (in a good way!).
Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well as we're encouraged to think differently and creatively to find solutions to problems or find opportunities.
The people - it truly is a big family that would do anything for one another.

1. They company lives it values
2. My co-workers are intelligent amazing people that I truly enjoy spending time with
3. Upper management really cares about getting to know every teammate. Jay Price, our CEO, has gone out of his way to get to know me and I see him do the same for everyone who works for Mission. This attitude is the same through our whole leadership team.

Work Culture

Life at Mission Pet Health

What's it like to work here?
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Why Us?

Why Work At Mission Pet Health

work together. amaze. grow. mission is owned and operated by experienced doctors of veterinary medicine and experts in business administration. unlike other companies, our decision-makers possess clinical experience and a keen awareness of the day-to-day challenges common in hospital life. but the greatest advantage we offer is a culturally-diverse network of more than 850+ hospitals, specialty centers, and resorts across 42 states in the us, which provide our workforce with unmatched career opportunity and growth potential. by helping every member of the mission family achieve their personal bests, we strengthen our ability to save lives and create amazing patient experiences.

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