Welcome to the Vets Pets Weekly Update!

We’re excited to bring you the latest news, updates, and stories from across our North Carolina veterinary practices. Each week, we’ll share important announcements, highlight achievements, and sprinkle some fun along the way.

Your work makes a difference every day, and we want to celebrate you. If you have news or stories to share, please let us know by responding to any of these emails or reaching out to marketing@thevetspets.com.

 

New Mental Health Coverage – at NO Additional Cost

to Medically Enrolled Employees!

It can be difficult to find time to focus on ourselves when life gets busy at work and at home, but you
shouldn’t need to wait for a crisis to prioritize your mental health. Vets Pets is committed to helping you and your
families easily access care and resources to support you through any of life’s challenges.

Your 2025 medical benefits include Spring Health services to ensure that you can have mental
health support whenever and wherever it’s needed. This benefit will be available at no cost to Vets Pets
team members with medical coverage and their household dependents. Spring Health can support your mental health with easy access to:

  • Free Therapy: Get convenient, confidential support from a therapist of your choice. Each member (age 6+) gets 6 sessions per year.
  • Free Coaching: Build new skills, create healthy habits, and reach personal goals. Each member (13+) gets 6 free sessions per year.
  • Care Guidance and Support: A Care Navigator can walk you through your care plan, help you find the right provider, and support you along the way.
  • Diverse Providers: Choose an experienced therapist you feel comfortable with. Browse recommendations or search by specialty, gender, ethnicity, or language.
  • Work Life Services: Access expert guidance and resources to navigate legal or financial matters, child care, elder care, pet care, travel, household services, and more.
  • Wellness Exercises: Moments is a library of self-guided exercises that can help you manage stress, calm anxiety, beat burnout, improve sleep, and be more mindful.

If you have elected medical coverage at any level with Vets Pets, each member of your household (age 6+) gets 6 free therapy sessions per year. At any time, you can tap into Moments, a library of self-guided exercises that can help you manage stress, calm anxiety, beat burnout, improve sleep, and be more mindful. Spring Health also offers access to coaching (6 free sessions), medication management, alcohol and substance use support, work-life services, and more.

Vets Pets continues to offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) through HealthAdvocate for employees who waive our health plan or who are not benefit eligible. Three sessions per person, per year for this EAP also extends to any household family members of these employees.

You can register for this new benefit using the link below. Keep an out for future email communications from Spring Health.

Join us in celebrating Deas Winborne’s incredible achievement! She officially became an RVT after acing the state exam.

Since 2021, Deas has been a vital part of the weekend team at Pet Emergency Clinic. A graduate of Penn Foster, she recently passed both her national and state board exams to earn her NC credentials. Her expertise and passion for animal care are remarkable, and we’re proud to have her on our team.

Please join us in congratulating Deas on this outstanding accomplishment!  If you have a success story you would like to share, please reach out to marketing@thevetspets.com.

The veterinary profession offers both challenges and rewards. It’s crucial to pause regularly and acknowledge the positive experiences within your hospitals. We will start sharing a review each week from around the company. If you have a review you’d like to share, please respond to this email or reach out to marketing@thevetspets.com.

This week’s review acknowledges the team at Wake Veterinary Medical Center. Well done!

This is not exactly where you want to spend New Years Day but you also can’t predict when your dog will have an emergency. Because my dog DID have an emergency, I’m grateful that I got to spend New Years with the spectacular staff at Wake Veterinary Medical Center. They provided me with an incredibly accurate estimate on wait time and cost, the staff, like I said, was spectacular, and my pup had a full recovery. It turns out that this was the best place for me to celebrate 2025!

B. Wilson

Upcoming Vets Pets Events

  • 14th Annual NCSU VetPAC Networking Event | January 29
  • NCSU Alumni + Student Mixer | February 26
  • Vets Pets Leadership Summit | February 27
  • Red Wolf Leadership Conference | 2/28-3/1
  • NCVMA Practice Management Seminar | 3/2
  • Vetiquette Dinner | 3/12