Company Profile
Long Island Veterinary Specialists
Company Overview
Long Island Veterinary Specialists is a leading AAHA certified specialty hospital serving our community for over 20 years. Housed in a bustling 30,000 square foot facility, boasting a dedicated area for diagnostic procedures, LIVS specialists and staff have access to extraordinary diagnostic technologies.
With a staff of over 150 enthusiastic professionals, you will work among published, world-renowned specialists in a variety of disciplines including: Behavior Medicine, Dermatology, Internal Medicine, Neurology, Ophthalmology, Oncology, Critical Care, Surgery, Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Long Island Veterinary Specialists is located in Nassau County, Long Island; which offers both the big city and small town feeling. Enjoy beautiful white sand beaches on the Atlantic Ocean and miles of rugged coastline on the tranquil Long Island Sound. Discover charming villages and downtowns, fascinating museums, world-class shopping, top-notch hotels and restaurants, scenic hiking trails, picturesque public gardens, bike paths, swimming, surfing, boating and fishing. Best of all, LIVS is located only 40 minutes from Manhattan via commuter train.
Company History
The present-day Long Island Veterinary Specialists has its roots in “Island Veterinary Referral”, formed in Levittown in 1993. The idea was to create a place where Long Islanders could take their pets for advanced veterinary services that were not otherwise available on the island.
The people behind the vision were the late Dr. Meyer “Mike” Kaplan, a veterinary surgeon and owner of Levittown Animal Hospital, and Dr. John Sapienza, veterinary ophthalmologist. The two veterinarians were soon joined by Dr. Rada Panich, veterinary dermatologist, and Dr. Dominic J. Marino, veterinary surgeon.
Because of a rapidly growing caseload and medical team necessary to provide advanced veterinary services, the resources of the Levittown facility were quickly exceeded. In June 1998, “Island Veterinary Referral” moved to larger quarters in Plainview and was renamed Long Island Veterinary Specialists. LIVS became the first veterinary specialist referral center with a 24 hour emergency and critical care service in the region and was the largest at over 12,000 sq/ft.
Today, LIVS is recognized as one of the nation’s premier private veterinary specialist centers. Patients are not only referred from the tri-state region, but from Florida, Texas, Vermont, Alaska, the Caribbean, and as far away as Spain and Japan. Our diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation capabilities are second to none. Specialists at LIVS regularly perform brain and spine surgery, intraocular lens implantation, cancer therapy, hip replacements, cardiac evaluations, allergy testing, endoscopy, immunotherapy therapy, CT scans and MR imaging. We now occupy over 30,000 sq/ft and are staffed with over 150 trained professionals practicing in various specialty disciplines.