Is Hillcrest Animal Hospital (Simpsonville, South Carolina) owned by private equity?

Notes

• A South Carolina DHEC X-Ray Facility Registry listing shows the operating entity as “SOUTHERN VETERINARY PARTNERS DBA HILLCREST ANIMAL HOSPITAL,” indicating Hillcrest is operated under the Southern Veterinary Partners platform.
• Shore Capital Partners’ portfolio page shows Southern Veterinary Partners was backed by Shore ("with shore since October 2014"), and also indicates an "exit date December 2024" (suggesting Shore’s SVP investment was rolled into/transitioned via a broader transaction/merger rather than SVP remaining a standalone Shore portfolio company).
• Mission Pet Health publicly states that Southern Veterinary Partners and Mission Veterinary Partners joined together as Mission Pet Health (brand announcement July 21, 2025).
• Silver Lake’s official portfolio page lists Mission Pet Health as a portfolio company, supporting that Mission Pet Health is private-equity-owned/controlled.
• Founding year is stated on the hospital’s official website (“Since 1986”). The specific individual founder was not identified in the sources reviewed.
• A local news article states Dr. Patricia Hill owned Hillcrest Animal Hospital for 22 years and that it was sold to an independent practitioner in 2013; however, the exact date/year Hillcrest later became part of SVP/Mission Pet Health was not found in the reviewed sources, so the 'became PE-owned' date is recorded as unknown (but after 2013 and before the present).
• A direct Hillcrest Animal Hospital (Simpsonville) logo image URL could not be reliably extracted from the sources fetched within the tool limit; therefore logoUrl is marked Unknown.