Madison Reilly

Review of Garden State Veterinary Specia...

DO NOT SEND YOUR PET HERE. Possibly the worst job ...

DO NOT SEND YOUR PET HERE. Possibly the worst job I ve ever had. Techs don t care about putting their hands on their patients. If I went into a cage to walk a dog and didn t take full vitals while I was in there, I had to deal with the attitudes of my technicians. Meanwhile they are the nurses caring for the patients. Other than the toxic and hostile work environment, I left Garden State because I would never in a million years admit my dog there for care. The night shift is terrible. There was one tech on night shift that I would trust with my dog and that was it. The rest blast loud rap music in the wards, and sit on their phones and hangout all night. So while you re dog is probably sitting in it s own urine, scared, and alone - your dogs nurses are blasting stressful loud music and enjoying their time not caring for your pet. As a person who deeply cares for animals, there would be days when surgeons would come to me before they left for the day to tell me things about their patients, and things they wanted to get done, because they didn t trust their overnight techs. In other words, they trusted an assistant, over their technicians. The night shift supervisor pulls up the wrong medications, and on numerous occasions has almost given the wrong meds to patients in which would have resulted in a decline or death in that patient. I was honest and relayed this information to both my manager and the owner of the hospital as I was leaving and I didn t get a response. Very unprofessional. It s a surgery factory. There were days when we had no cages for patients, and were shoving big dogs into little cages. Some days it felt like how much money can we make in one day instead of providing quality patient care. What s sad is there are technicians and doctors who understand the issues at hand but they stay silent and compliant. The owner of the hospital tells clients he is doing their dogs surgery, and then another surgeon does it instead. Patients recover from surgery sprawled out in the middle of the floor, people stepping over them, with one technician to recover patients. There was one shift when I was in recovery and I had 8 patients all by myself, and then I got in trouble for asking for help. There are good surgeons, and good specialists at Garden State. However the compliancy with the terrible patient care and overnight care is beyond disappointing.
At the end of the day, don t work there and don t send your pet there. Period.