$10 Million Gift Launches CSU's World-Class Equine Hospital

$10 Million Gift Launches CSU's World-Class Equine Hospital

A recent gift of $10 million from the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation is launching plans at Colorado State University to build a state-of-the-art equine hospital.
CSU Director of Equine Clinical Services Dr. Chris Kawcak says this generous gift is a wonderful start in fundraising the remaining $37 million to build this stand-alone equine hospital. He continues with some of the features of this new veterinary teaching hospital
Kawcak: “What this initial gift does is provides leverage to be able to fundraise to get the moneys to build. So what we will do is to create one whole wing of the hospital that is strictly for equine rehabilitation — mostly for muscular-skeleton injuries and neurologic injuries. Things like underwater treadmills, swimming pool — just like they do on the human side — just add that unique ability to do that on the equine side as well. We have had some very impressive results with our small program now that we would like to expand and take advantage of for the industry. All of the operations will expand — equine surgery. Even though we do a very good job handling complex fracture repairs. We will now expanded computed tomography unit or CT unit that will allow us to do three-dimensional imaging in the OR.”
In addition there will be eight isolation stalls for treatment of horses with infectious diseases. In the new hospital, CSU’s 27 equine clinicians will care for about 4,000 horse patients each year, and will continue to conduct clinical studies that provide new knowledge for equine medicine

 

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