New England Equine, founded by Drs. Joseph Heissan and Ronald Rosen, has been serving regional horsemen considering the fact that 1970. Initially it was an ambulatory practice, but with the hiring of Dr. William Bradley in 1976, and the will need for a surgical facility, the practice moved to a leased facility in Ridgefield, CT in 1978. Shortly immediately after their move, the practice suffered the unexpected passing of Dr. Rosen. Anxious to have a bigger hospital with far more solutions, Drs. Bradley and Heissan made a 3000 square foot facility with an 8 stall barn which includes outside turnout and a riding ring. Quickly immediately after, a 900 square foot wing, nuclear scintigraphy service and 6 further stalls have been added.
In 1986, Dr. Heissan retired and Dr. Bradley with associates kept the small business increasing, often arranging for the ultimate house for New England Equine Practice. In 1998, Dr. Gabriel Cook, a 1992 Cornell graduate, joined the practice. He shared Dr. Bradley’s dream and in 2007 New England Equine Practice moved to a 33 acre, 29,000 square foot hospital offering a wide variety of solutions which includes medicine, surgery, essential care, MRI, nuclear scintigraphy, lameness and prepurchase examinations. The surgical suite and recovery facilities enable for practical and protected patient management through the anesthetic induction, surgery and recovery phases. The hospital involves an isolation ward and indoor riding ring. Dr. Heissan’s death in 2007 was a shock to our physicians and the horse neighborhood he served so faithfully. He had an chance to check out the new clinic and was proud to see the outcome of the small business he began 37 years previously. In January 2008, Dr. Cook became a complete companion with Dr. Bradley. Presently New England Equine Practice P.C. employs 3 associate veterinarians, an intern as effectively as 25 lay workers and specializes in offering complete horse care each in the hospital and on the farm. The hospital facility delivers a complete variety of solutions which includes surgery, internal medicine, infectious illness and isolation facilities and sophisticated diagnostic imaging. The practice delivers ambulatory solutions for routine care and preventive medicine. Lameness and prepurchase examinations, as effectively as pre or post-natal reproductive care can be handled at the steady and are identified as Dutchess County Equine Vet.
Pre-acquire examinations must be an integral portion of the effectively informed choice when acquiring a horse. Even though most examinations are performed by the ambulatory service, complicated lameness examinations requiring various attempts at diagnostic anesthesia to additional define the lameness and certain diagnostic imaging are performed in the hospital. Furthermore, some pre-acquire exams are electively performed in the hospital in order to facilitate scheduling or if image outcomes are necessary straight away. The indoor ring delivers a practical location for us to examine horses in motion.