About ESMS Inova
At ESMS Inova, LLC (Inova Partners), we are passionate about supporting animals and the people who care for them. We partner with busy practice owners and aspiring owners, providing professional business and management solutions that allow them to focus on what they do best—practicing exceptional veterinary medicine.
Our team of over 180 dedicated professionals includes veterinarians, pharmacists, technicians, administrative staff, and support personnel. Together, we are driven by a shared mission: to meet our clients’ and patients’ needs with unparalleled care and excellence, every step of the way.
Inova Partners, along with our affiliates, owns and operates equine and companion animal practices and related businesses across Texas and beyond.
Our Family of Companies Includes:
Equine Sports Medicine & Surgery (ESMS): A premier equine practice with a flagship emergency and referral hospital in Weatherford, Texas, and a robust racehorse division operating across six states (TX, OK, NM, IA, AZ, MN).- Holland Lake Animal Hospital: A progressive and growing companion animal practice in Weatherford, Texas.
- Clear Fork Veterinary Clinic: A thriving companion animal practice located in Aledo, Texas.
- Athens Equine: A rapidly expanding general equine practice in Athens, Texas.
- Xact Rx: A USDA-licensed custom compounding pharmacy based in Weatherford, Texas.
- Inova Partners: The business and administrative hub of ESMS Inova, headquartered in Weatherford, Texas.
At Inova Partners, we are committed to excellence in veterinary medicine and client service, ensuring that every experience is better than anyone else can provide.
ESMS Inova’s Purpose
To care for our clients’ and patients’ needs before, during, and after the delivery of our services, and to do it better than anyone else on the planet!
Why Us?
We are passionate about animals and their people.
Our Guiding Principles
Servant’s Heart
- We are called to serve.
We make a conscious decision to put our people and our client’s needs first.- We listen to our customers.
- We strive every day to find and implement timely solutions to our clients’ problems and issues.
Professionalism & Respect
- We project an attitude of positive energy, enthusiasm, and respect towards each other, our clients, and our industry partners.
Our employees are happy, competent people who present a professional image and a service approach.- We uphold high technical and ethical standards.
- We reject negativity as an infectious cancer that must be treated and removed.
Continuous Improvement
- We strive to find better ways to serve our customers today than we did yesterday.
We seek out and encourage new ideas.- We appreciate the value of diversity.
- We take ownership of challenges, not fear them.
- When we make a mistake, we learn from it and move forward.
- We strive to attract and retain the right people and part ways with the wrong people.
- We encourage and enable professional development through education and mentorship.
Good Stewardship
- We hold ourselves accountable for the well-being of the larger organization by operating in service, rather than control, of those around us.
- We strive for excellence in all we do.
We put our teammates and our customers first.- We share information openly with our teammates.
- We make sure our people have the tools, resources, and training to get the job done.
- We invest in our people, our community, and our company.
- We strive for sustained profitable growth.
- We believe that doing the right things to help others and doing them to the best of our ability is the key to growth and success for our company.