Pacific Northwest Pet ER Plans to Open This Summer

Construction is underway on Pacific Northwest Pet ER and Specialty Center, Portland’s newest animal emergency and specialty veterinary care hospital. The operator, NVA Compassion-First, plans to open the Vancouver facility this summer.

The facility will open in the Mill Plain Plaza shopping center at 164th Avenue and Mill Plain Boulevard. The hospital will occupy space previously occupied by a Whole Foods Market. 

Lorentz Bruun Construction is the general contractor on the project. The firm began renovation of the Whole Foods Market at the beginning of this year. The construction project involved demising the former Whole Foods space, framing, roughing in and sheet-rocking the 77-room 18,000 square-foot hospital facility.

“This was a big project from start to finish with a lot of rooms to deliver and despite closely following enhanced safety precautions as a result of COVID-19, the pandemic’s impact on local permitting processes and some adverse weather this winter, we’ve stayed on track for completion,” said Eric Bruun, Lorentz Bruun project manager.

The facility will serve the Portland metro area 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Pacific Northwest Pet ER and Specialty Center will feature an emergency critical care unit including separate canine and feline intensive care units as well as advanced imaging modalities including MRI and CT scan, in-house lab and testing facilities, and three surgery suites. There will also be a physical therapy suite with hydrotherapy equipment.

This is NVA Compassion-First’s second veterinary specialty and emergency hospital in Oregon and its first in the Portland metro area. In addition to a hospital in Medford, OR, its other facilities in the Pacific Northwest include two hospitals in Seattle and one in Spokane.