Emergency vet access in Maryland
Of 584 listed veterinary practices in Maryland,9 post verified around-the-clock hours across 9 cities, and 9 more offer emergency services without overnight staffing. 5 emergency providers are verified to treat exotic pets. 27 practices treat farm animals or horses.
Updated 2026-09-27. Free to cite with a link. Methodology and limits below.
Every verified 24/7 hospital in Maryland
| Hospital | City | Phone | Exotics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic | Annapolis | (410) 224-0331 | |
| Falls Road Animal Hospital | Baltimore | (410) 825-9100 | ✓ verified |
| Animal Emergency Hospital | Bel Air | (410) 420-7297 | ✓ verified |
| VEG ER for Pets - Columbia | Columbia | (410) 690-7170 | |
| Emergency Animal Hospital of Ellicott City | Ellicott City | (410) 750-1177 | ✓ verified |
| VEG ER for Pets - Pikesville | Pikesville | (410) 793-4910 | |
| Metropolitan Animal Emergency and Specialty Center | Rockville | (301) 770-5225 | |
| Pet+ER | Towson | (410) 252-8387 | |
| Rocky Gorge Animal Hospital | West Laurel | (301) 776-7744 |
Towns farthest from overnight care
Among Maryland towns with at least four listed practices but no 24/7 hospital of their own, the longest hauls to verified overnight care:
- Salisbury — nearest 24/7 hospital is Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Annapolis, 67 mi straight-line (roughly a 1 hr 21 min drive)
- Hagerstown — nearest 24/7 hospital is Metropolitan Animal Emergency and Specialty Center in Rockville, 50 mi straight-line (roughly a 1 hr drive)
- La Plata — nearest 24/7 hospital is Metropolitan Animal Emergency and Specialty Center in Rockville, 37 mi straight-line (roughly a 50 min drive)
- Waldorf — nearest 24/7 hospital is Metropolitan Animal Emergency and Specialty Center in Rockville, 31 mi straight-line (roughly a 42 min drive)
- Easton — nearest 24/7 hospital is Anne Arundel Veterinary Emergency Clinic in Annapolis, 30 mi straight-line (roughly a 41 min drive)
- Frederick — nearest 24/7 hospital is Metropolitan Animal Emergency and Specialty Center in Rockville, 28 mi straight-line (roughly a 38 min drive)
- Elkton — nearest 24/7 hospital is Animal Emergency Hospital in Bel Air, 24 mi straight-line (roughly a 32 min drive)
- Westminster — nearest 24/7 hospital is VEG ER for Pets - Pikesville in Pikesville, 20 mi straight-line (roughly a 26 min drive)
Methodology & honest limits
"24/7" means the hospital's own posted hours say so — on-call and emergency-line arrangements do not count, and we audit the claims. Distances are straight-line between town coordinates, not road miles; drive times are estimates, not routing. Our dataset (OpenStreetMap and GeoNames base, plus our own verification and reader corrections) is extensive but not a census: a town can look underserved here because a hospital lacks any web presence. Corrections are verified and applied — report one.
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