Heart Of Gold Veterinary Care in Geneva is a mixed animal practice. It treats horses, dogs and cats, and its large-animal patients include donkeys. Finger Lakes readers voted it FLX Finest Gold for Veterinarian Clinic / Hospital in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The practice is privately owned, family-oriented and was founded by Dr. Jessica Gulvin in June 2019.
Gulvin is a 2019 Ohio State University veterinary graduate. She started the business as a mobile operation because the area lacked large-animal veterinary care, and she later added small-animal care. The practice's own history traces the idea to spring 2016, her first year of vet school, when a horse in her family's barn had colic and a vet was hard to get to the farm.
Gulvin first ran the practice from her parents' garage, with a temporary space set up next door. The permanent clinic was built on that neighboring property in 2023. It opened in 2024 at 3858 State Route 14A with six treatment rooms, two private comfort rooms and separate entrances for dogs and cats. Her father, Rick Gulvin, contributed to the facility. At the 2024 ribbon cutting she credited her grandmother, Marilyn Jensen, with helping secure the land.
The clinic handles surgical cases several days a week, including spays, neuters, entropion repair and mass removals. Equine work includes tendon ultrasound, and a mobile X-ray machine serves large animals. Laser therapy and acupuncture are offered for both large and small animals. Horse and donkey services run from wellness care, vaccines and parasite control programs to lameness evaluations, pre-purchase examinations, on-farm castrations and dental floating. Dental cleanings and extractions are offered, though the clinic is more reserved about extractions because it has no dental X-ray yet.
The practice serves a 30-mile radius from Geneva and sees animals at home as well as in the clinic. In 2024 Gulvin described plans for a later equine center with a large animal surgical suite and a rehabilitation center.
Emergency care has limits. The clinic says it offers 24/7 emergency assistance to current patients, but only when the patient has had a physical within the last 12 months. After-hours staffing is limited, small-animal emergencies are seen only at the clinic and only if it can accommodate them, and goat, sheep and camelid emergencies are no longer offered. The practice's website says it is accepting new clients, but not for emergencies. It offers online forms for new patient, appointment, prescription and surgical requests.