The PVMA's new managers group visits Pittsburgh

Hats off to PVSEC and the PVMA for hosting another great lunch and learn and round table discussion for the newly formed…(and rapidly growing!) PVMA Managers Group. 

Before we discuss the group, we need to take a second and talk about Pittsburgh.  Has anyone been recently?  Because it is DEFINITELY not the steel town of yester year.  It is a modern, hip, funky, INEXPENSIVE, trendy, smart, happening gateway to the Midwest.  It is a city of bridges (I think someone told me there were 17 total) and it is a stratified city, built on layers as it climbs up and down the ridges of the western Pennsylvania landscape.  To look into the skyline is not to look INTO the skyline, but up, down, across and over into the skyline. It fills your line of vision.  An 8-oclock window seat at a restaurant is a light show.  And during economic times that have crippled many major, US cities; the universities and medical facilities of Pittsburgh have kept unemployment at nationally recognized low levels.

Which brings me to PVSEC.  What do you want to know?  Want a tour of their modern, sleek hospital? See evidence of their employee success by walking down the ‘Hall of Fame’ where  pictures of employees who have passed their five year anniversary cram the walls?  How about a tour of their CAT scan?  The linear accelerator?  We could meet the kind folks in the Derm or Optho department?  And along the way we might meet any number of veterinary technicians who not only strive to be great nurses, but great leaders.  This is a practice where the integrity of the leaders has bled out into the group at large.  They are dedicated, juiced about their work and extremely successful.  In fact, in the short time since their last remodel, they are expanding again.

The PVMA managers group will unite the veterinary professionals of Pittsburgh with those in Erie, Bloomsburg, Scranton-Wilkes Barre, Philly, Harrisburg, State College and all the little towns in between.  It will bring addition great education to a program of continuing education that has already proven itself to be affordable and top notch.  The members of the group are dedicated to not just practice growth, but personal growth and who could forget fun and friendship.  If you haven’t joined yet or want more information, come to the Three Rivers Veterinary Symposium in November.  Additionally visit our website.  2012 has been a great year of exploring the nearly limitless boundaries of this organization and 2013 is steaming on the launch pad.  See you there!