# Affordable Animal Hospital: Santa Ana, Santa Ana: a veterinarian in Santa Ana (2026 guide)

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-ana/affordable-animal-hospital-santa-ana-ca. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Fact-checked against 6 sources. Updated 2026-09-03. Owner review: not yet.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/santa-ana/affordable-animal-hospital-santa-ana-ca

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## In short

Affordable Animal Hospital: Santa Ana is a veterinarian. Its AI Score is 51 of 100, which is fair.

Every fact on this page carries one of three marks: Confirmed (from their website, Google Business Profile, review sites, licensing boards, or measured by Local AI Registry), Visitor submitted (added by a person, with a date and how they know), or AI guess (what AI engines like ChatGPT are saying, not confirmed by anyone). Every mark points to a reference at the end of this page.


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Veterinarian |
| Address | 1901 N Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706, USA |
| Hours | Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Sat 9 AM to 2 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (714) 515-7885 |
| Medical director | Nothing found |
| Rating | 4.3 across 270 reviews on Google |
| Known for | Affordable Animal Hospital is best known for its budget-friendly pet x-ray services and quick veterinary care, making it a popular choice for pet owners in Santa Ana seeking affordable options. |
| Prices | Nothing found |
| Quietest time | Nothing found |
| Parking | Nothing found |
| Last verified | September 19, 2026, 12:46 PM |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1901 N Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Description | Affordable Animal Hospital Santa Ana is known for its tailored approach to veterinary care. Our veterinarians are new and we are prpacticing personalized each treatment plan to suit the medical histories and needs of your pets. While surgical treatments are the only way to provide long-term benefits, they may not be suitable for every pet. Our highly-experienced and non qualified animal hospital team offer non-surgical treatments as well. We offer many services from vaccinations to microchipping, puppy and kitten care to x-rays, and more. We also provide emergency services with no quality of care when you pet needs us most. Contact our office today to schedule an appointment or learn more. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Hours | Mon Closed · Tue to Fri 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Mondays | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Name | Affordable Animal Hospital: Santa Ana | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Location info | Phone | (714) 515-7885 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Monday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Friday | 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Microchipping | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Orthopedic surgery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Soft tissue surgery | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | Vaccinations | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Services | Service | X rays | Confirmed | Business website, checked Sep 19, 2026 |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/affordableanimalhospitalla | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/affordableanimalhospital | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/?utm_source=GMBlisting&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb | Confirmed | Google Business Profile, checked Sep 3, 2026 |


## Services and prices

These are the 5 services Affordable Animal Hospital offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Microchipping |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Orthopedic surgery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Soft tissue surgery |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Vaccinations |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| X rays |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

Affordable Animal Hospital is best known for its budget-friendly pet x-ray services and quick veterinary care, making it a popular choice for pet owners in Santa Ana seeking affordable options.


## The team

Nothing found


## Visiting Affordable Animal Hospital

Address: 1901 N Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92706, USA. Phone: (714) 515-7885. Hours: Closed Mon · Tue to Fri 9 AM to 5 PM · Sat 9 AM to 2 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile, checked September 3, 2026 at 3:07 PM.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

Business description, written by Affordable Animal Hospital on its Google Business Profile: "Affordable Animal Hospital Santa Ana is known for its tailored approach to veterinary care. Our veterinarians are new and we are prpacticing personalized each treatment plan to suit the medical histories and needs of your pets.

While surgical treatments are the only way to provide long-term benefits, they may not be suitable for every pet. Our highly-experienced and non qualified animal hospital team offer non-surgical treatments as well.

We offer many services from vaccinations to microchipping, puppy and kitten care to x-rays, and more. We also provide emergency services with no quality of care when you pet needs us most.

Contact our office today to schedule an appointment or learn more."


### When to go

Busy times not read yet, back on Scan Day.


### Parking and getting in

Nothing found


### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 214 W 19th St Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| 118 W 19th St Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| 113 W 18th St Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| Bowers Museum Parking South | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| 122 W 18th St Parking | Parking lot | 2 min walk |
| Main-20th | Bus stop | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.3 average across 270 reviews: Google 25. (Confirmed, read September 3, 2026.)

While Affordable Animal Hospital offers competitive pricing, many reviews highlight serious concerns about communication and the quality of care provided. (AI guess, from 270 reviews.)


### What people like

- Affordable pricing for services
- Quick appointments and service
- Friendly and helpful staff
- Supportive during difficult pet health decisions


### What people do not like

- Long waits for follow-up calls
- Poor communication about treatment plans
- High estimates for procedures
- Unresponsive front desk staff
- Inconsistent care quality


### Press

No press story about Affordable Animal Hospital found yet.


### Awards

None named yet.


### Directories

Directory listings not read yet.


## Recent updates from Affordable Animal Hospital

Affordable Animal Hospital hasn't posted an update here yet.


## Questions people ask


### never been to Affordable Animal Hospital in Santa Ana, how does it go?

No answer yet


### opening hours at Affordable Animal Hospital, what are they these days?

No answer yet


### which one for Affordable pet x-ray services, Affordable Animal Hospital or Grand Pet Care?

No answer yet


### bad experiences at Affordable Animal Hospital, anyone?

No answer yet


### Ballpark for a visit to a vet in Santa Ana?

No answer yet


### recovery after Affordable Animal Hospital, what do people actually say?

No answer yet


### somewhere cheaper in Santa Ana that is not a risk?

No answer yet


### last update from here was when?

No answer yet


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing

No answer yet


### topical numbing, standard or extra

No answer yet


### where exactly is this place?

No answer yet


### any last minute appts here?

No answer yet


### genuinely, what is good about this one

No answer yet


### planning a Monday visit, is that a wasted trip

No answer yet


### best veterinarian in Santa Ana

No answer yet


### Turning up here for the first time, what happens?

No answer yet


### are the injectors here nurses or doctors

No answer yet


## What AI gets wrong about Affordable Animal Hospital

We ask ChatGPT about Affordable Animal Hospital. These are the answers that disagree with the record.

ChatGPT, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 3, 2026.

No capture has disagreed with the record yet.


## The AI Score: 51 of 100

The AI Score measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Santa Ana veterinarians run 25 to 55. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Affordable Animal Hospital scores 51, above the Santa Ana average of 43. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Affordable Animal Hospital |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Named in 0 of 1 answer that recommended anyone. |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Not read yet | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | No reading has come back for this signal yet. |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 77 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology


## How AI decides what to tell you about a veterinarian

When you ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google for a med spa, the AI does not visit each business. It reads what is already written about it: the business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp and RealSelf, news stories, licensing boards and directories like this one. Then it repeats what those sources agree on.

That is why AI gets small facts wrong. If Yelp says a place is open Mondays and the website says it is not, the AI has to pick one. The table above shows the answers that disagree with the record today.

The more sources agree, and the more specific they are, the more confidently AI recommends a business. A review that says "the nurse did half a syringe in my lips and it looks natural" is far more useful to an AI than one that says "great place."


## How to choose a veterinarian in California, with or without AI

A few checks take ten minutes and matter more than any rating. This is general information, not medical advice.

- Look up every injector. Doctors are listed by the California medical board, and nurses and nurse practitioners by its nursing board. Both lookups are free.
- Ask who does the injections, and check that person's license.
- Ask for the price per unit of Botox and per syringe of filler, not per area.
- Read reviews that name a provider and a treatment. Vague praise is easy to fake.
- Check that the hours and phone number match on Google, Yelp and the website. Mismatches are how people end up at a locked door.
- Ask whether they dissolve filler and when they would tell you not to add more.


## How to read the marks on this page

- Confirmed (solid circle): from a known source. The business website, its Google Business Profile, review sites like Yelp, Healthgrades and RealSelf, a licensing board, or measured by Local AI Registry.
- Visitor submitted (hollow circle): added or corrected by a person, with the date and how they know, like a phone call or a visit.
- AI guess (hollow triangle): what AI engines are saying right now. Nobody has confirmed it.


## About the author

Steve Lee is the founder and CEO of Local AI Registry and sets its editorial standards. He is a former Google executive in Search and a former Microsoft executive, with more than 20 years in digital: search, local discovery, and how people find businesses online. He is based in Irvine.

- Expertise: search at Google and Microsoft, AI search, answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, local SEO, structured data and entity mapping.
- Industry: medical aesthetics, injectables, med spa operations and marketing.
- Disclosure: Local AI Registry sells services to business owners, including Affordable Animal Hospital if it claims this page. That does not change what this page says. Every fact carries its source.


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Affordable Animal Hospital |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Affordable Animal Hospital: Santa Ana | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/?utm_source=GMBlisting&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=gmb | Subject of this page |
| Santa Ana, California | City | #city | Nothing found | City Affordable Animal Hospital is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the veterinarians in Santa Ana, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best veterinarians in Santa Ana: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-ana/veterinarian
- Best businesses in Santa Ana: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-ana


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /fresno: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/fresno


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## Frequently asked questions


### What is AI search optimization for local business?

Getting a business named when a neighbor asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity for a recommendation. Some call it AI SEO, some call it generative engine optimization. Traditional SEO fights for ten blue links; this fights for the one answer an assistant says out loud. The AI Score on this page measures the eight signals that drive it.


### What is Local AI Registry?

The public record of how AI sees local business. We score every business we list by one published method, we keep the questions people ask about it in one place, and we never sell rank. Looking up any business here is free.


### How does this page help a business get recommended by AI?

Assistants read public pages before they answer. This one states what the business does, what people ask about it, and what the Record answers, in one place a machine can read. Correcting what is wrong here changes what an assistant repeats next.


### Who writes the answers here?

Registry AI writes the first answer under every question, from the Record and the public sources named beneath it. Neighbors write the rest under pseudonyms. A registered owner can reply as the business, and their reply says so.


### I own Affordable Animal Hospital: Santa Ana. How do I fix something or rank higher?

Register the page. It is free, it takes about five minutes, and it lets you correct the Record and reply as the business. Nothing on this page is for sale, so the only thing that moves the score is the work.


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJN3xWPUPZ3IARZzVCUl-muWo (accessed Sep 3, 2026)
- [2] affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com, https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/services/microchipping/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [3] affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com, https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/services/orthopedic-surgery/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [4] affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com, https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/services/surgical-care/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [5] affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com, https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/services/vaccinations/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)
- [6] affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com, https://www.affordableanimalhospitalsantaana.com/services/x-rays/ (accessed Sep 19, 2026)