Overview
The clock is the whole point here. Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, every day of the year, which is another way of saying it exists for the moments that don't schedule themselves: the dog who got into something at midnight, the cat who stopped eating over a holiday weekend, the call your regular vet's office makes when a case turns out to need more than a regular vet's office can give. It sits on Greenbrier Drive in Charlottesville, at 370 Greenbrier Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22901, and it takes both walk-in emergencies and referred specialty patients.
Two things happen under this roof, and they overlap. One is emergency medicine — the around-the-clock, come-as-you-are kind. The other is specialty care, the deeper work you get sent to when a diagnosis or a treatment sits outside the scope of a general practice. The hospital describes itself as a team of veterinarians with board certifications across several disciplines, working alongside a trained support staff. For pet owners in and around Crozet, it's the number you keep somewhere findable for the night you hope you never have.
What they do
The emergency side is built for speed and for staying: immediate life-saving care, ICU monitoring and support, on-site diagnostics, and emergency surgery, all staffed around the clock. Their own line on it — "Emergencies don't wait, and neither do we" — is about as plain as a mission statement gets. Urgent walk-ins are welcome any hour; you don't need an appointment to bring a dog or cat through the door in a crisis.
The specialty side is where the hospital's depth shows. They list board-certified specialists in internal medicine, surgery, cardiology, and oncology, plus ophthalmology, a dedicated imaging and diagnostics service, and a rehabilitation department. That last one is worth noting — rehab is the slower, recovery-minded end of veterinary care, the part that comes after the surgery or the acute episode, and not every emergency hospital carries it. Between the two sides, a pet can arrive in the middle of the night and, if the case calls for it, move into the hands of a specialist without leaving the building.
The patients are dogs and cats. The facility is on Greenbrier Drive, and the hospital calls it state-of-the-art, which in this context mostly means the equipment and the monitoring are there to handle the hard cases rather than refer them onward.
How it fits with your regular vet
One of the clearer notes in how this practice describes itself is that it doesn't want to replace your primary veterinarian — it wants to work with them. The hospital partners closely with the general-practice community, taking referrals and coordinating treatment so that care stays continuous. They put it in terms of teamwork: "not just within our hospital, but with you and your primary care veterinarian." There's even a standing invitation to referring vets to send patients over.
For a pet owner, that's a useful thing to understand going in. If your own vet sends you here for a cardiology workup or a surgical consult, the idea is that the specialists loop back rather than take over. And if you come in cold at 3 a.m. with an emergency, the goal is the same — stabilize the animal, then hand the ongoing story back to the people who know it. The collaborative framing runs through everything on the page, and it's the difference between a place that catches emergencies and a place that also thinks about what happens after.
Before you go
Keep the number where you can reach it: (434) 202-2987. It's the same line for a pet emergency and for booking a specialty appointment, and because the phones are staffed 24/7, someone answers whenever you call. Emergency and urgent walk-ins are welcome around the clock, so in a genuine crisis you head in rather than wait.
For anything less urgent — a specialty consult, a question about referral, a look at the full range of services — the Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency website lays out the departments and lets you request an appointment. It's a Charlottesville address, but for the Crozet-area households whose animals occasionally need more than a routine visit, this is the kind of place you're glad is open at hours nowhere else is.
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency?
Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency is located at 370 Greenbrier Dr, Charlottesville, VA 22901, USA, in Crozet, Virginia.
What are Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency's hours?
Monday: Open 24 hours Tuesday: Open 24 hours Wednesday: Open 24 hours Thursday: Open 24 hours Friday: Open 24 hours Saturday: Open 24 hours Sunday: Open 24 hours
How do I contact Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency?
You can call (434) 202-2987 or visit https://vavetspecialists.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=google_business_profile. Hours and current information are most reliable directly from the business.
What kind of business is Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency?
Virginia Veterinary Specialty & Emergency is categorized as veterinary in our Crozet directory. See the description and quick facts above for what makes this listing distinctive.
Sources: vavetspecialists.com