The WSVMA would like to acknowledge our amazing Affinity Partners who allow us the ability to offer amazing benefits to our members. Thank you for your dedication to the profession and to the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association.
If you would like to become an affinity partner with the WSVMA, please contact Ken Gordon at [email protected].
Christian William Kalinowski (DiPaola financial Group) is proud to bring Ameritas Life Insurance to WSVMA. He is proud to have a phenomenal company come in and provide the BEST rates on the BEST life and disability insurance policies in the country. Christian is a senior advisor out of DiPaola Financial Group. DiPaola Financial Group is a full-service insurance and investment firm based in New York, focusing on providing comprehensive financial planning and protection solutions for individuals and businesses. Paired with Christian’s ~20 years of experience professionally handling animals, it is the one-stop-shop for all of your financial needs including 401k management, payroll, health, vision, and dental outside of the amazing, discounted life and disability insurance.
Financial Strategies Planning: Complimentary consultation plus reduced rate package for financial planning services. Catalyst Advisory Group provides expert guidance to improve personal finances; i.e., debt management, budgeting, investment strategies, tax-minimizing strategies, retirement and estate planning.
Young Professionals Financial Planning: For grads the first two years out of school. Two complimentary consulting sessions are provided to help with budgeting, debt management, and risk management with an overview of employee benefits that can be expected in private vs. corporate practice.
WSVMA want to acknowledge the generous support that Chewy Health provides in support of the MentorVet program.
CorpCare is a high quality and deeply discounted Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that is available to WSVMA Members. Clinics/hospitals pay an annual membership fee for the EAP that ranges from $500 to $1,150 per year. This fee then allows all staff at the clinic to access between 3 and 5 counselling sessions per year. Once you sign up your clinic/hospital, you will receive digital promotional materials, including fliers and a brochure. You, your employees, and dependents will then have access to all the EAP benefits for your benefit year: July 1 – June 30.
Gravity Payments provides top-of-the-line credit card processing services, offering reliable payment processing and outstanding customer service to your practice.
When you sign up with Gravity Payments, as a WSVMA Member, Gravity Payments will pay the annual dues to the WSVMA for one doctor on your team and meet or beat your current credit card processing rates.
LifeLearn Animal Health empowers veterinary clinics with a suite of customizable solutions that work together to help practices save time, improve operational efficiency, and strengthen client communications and education through the entire pet-owner journey – both in person and virtually.
Through the affinity partnership with the Washington State Veterinary Medical Association, LifeLearn Animal Health offers WSVMA members discounts on industry-leading animal health education, communication, and marketing solutions including:
Designed to help early-career veterinarians thrive, MentorVet is an evidence-based program that delivers the peer support, coaching, and mentorship you need to ease into the veterinary profession. This program is designed for recent graduates in their first five years of practice.
MentorVet is excited to be able to offer full scholarships for new and recent veterinary graduates within WSVMA membership to participate in the MentorVet Leap program in the fall of 2024 through the support of Chewy Health.
On Hold Specialists is the leader in veterinary telephone on-hold messages and works with our WSVMA veterinary hospitals and clinics to keep their on-hold programs fresh, topical and relevant. They also will professionally record audio files for your phone system.
WSVMA Members receive a 20% discount on standard fees.
Petriage offers a proprietary, advanced online teletriage tool that uses a sophisticated algorithm to identify what may be ailing a dog or cat, enabling pet owners to assess the need for veterinary care and their family veterinarian to communicate with them. Veterinarians can assess the urgency of household pets’ health symptoms remotely and deliver trusted recommendations. In addition, the software enables pets’ medical data to be integrated effortlessly into the vet’s practice management system. In addition to its ability to host remote client interactions and patient monitoring care, Petriage enables veterinarians to capture a significant portion of pet care cases occurring after-hours that they would have been unaware of and likely would result in emergency room visits. Members receive discounts on service.
Residential Mortgage offers powerful loan products to help WSVMA members buy homes and build wealth.
Our Physician’s Loan is a specialty product tailored to the needs of medical professionals. DVMs can exclude qualifying deferred student debt from their loan applications, and put less money down at closing. Applicants can also qualify using accepted job offers for positions that are starting soon. This an ideal tool for a new graduate or DVM at the start of their career.
Residential Mortgage also offers down payment assistance and grants for qualified first-time homebuyers, as well as in-house products that offer competitive rates on jumbo loans and second homes.
Seattle Litigation Group practices in the areas of Professional License Defense, Employment Law, and Civil Litigation. The Seattle Litigation Group is dedicated to defending professionals licensed in the state of Washington. Seattle Litigation Group, PLLC will handle all components of your professional license defense before a Washington state agency or board. This includes defense of an initial investigation; case preparations and hearings; presentations and compliance review, and; challenging suspensions and revocations.
Members of WSVMA will receive a pro bono 30 minute consultation with Seattle Litigation Group; discounted representation; and/or referral to other Trusted Counsel if an issue falls outside of Seattle Litigation Groups area of practice.
SavingLife provides innovative pet identification products and technology connected to a vast ecosystem of partners and pet parents to Save Animal Lives. Products include Pet Microchips, Pet Nanochips, Pet Tags, Combos, Smart Pet Microchip Scanners, and a Microchip Registry.
WSVMA Members can visit the WSVMA SavingLife store to access great pricing and other benefits on microchips, tags, and scanners.
VetRec’s HIPAA-compliant AI scribe automatically processes consultations & generates accurate SOAP notes in seconds. But that is not all; you can also create custom discharge notes & rDVM letters and summarize 100+ page patient history PDFs in seconds.
Washington State
Veterinary Medical Association
23515 NE Novelty Hill Rd.
STE B221-337
Redmond, WA 98053
Toll Free: (800) 399-7862
Phone: (425) 396-3191
Fax: (425) 396-3192
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