Provides Comprehensive Horse Care

New England horse-based doctor. Joseph Heissan and Ronald Rosen served as a regional riders since 1970. Initially, it was an outpatient practice, but the hiring of Dr. William Bradley in 1976, and the need for a surgical facility, the practice moved into a leased facility in Ridgefield, CT in 1978. Shortly after their arrival, the practice has suffered a sudden death of Dr. Rosen. Wanting to have a larger hospital with more services, Dr. Bradley and Heissan created 3000 square foot facility with 8 stall barn including Clear turnout and riding ring. Soon after this, 900 square foot wing was added to the service of nuclear scintigraphy and 6 additional seats.

In 1986, Dr. Heissan retired and Dr. Bradley with partners retained business grows, always planning for the Ultimate House New England Equine Practice. In 1998, Dr. Gabriel Cook, 1992 graduates of Cornell joined the practice. He shared the dream of Dr. Bradley, and in 2007 the New England Equine Practice moved to 33 acres, 29,000 square foot hospital, providing a wide range of services, including medicine, surgery, intensive care, MRI, nuclear scintigraphy, lameness and prepurchase examinations. Surgical Suite and restoration allows convenient and safe management of patients during induction of anesthesia, surgery and rehabilitation. Hospital includes a facility, and indoor riding ring. Dr. Heissan death in 2007 was a shock to our doctors and the horse community, which he served faithfully. He had the opportunity to visit the new clinic and was proud to see the result in the business he started 37 years ago.

In January 2008, Dr. Cook became a full partner with Dr. Bradley. Currently, New England Equine Practice PC 3 associate a veterinarian, an intern, and lay the 25 employees and specializes in providing comprehensive health-horse, both in hospital and on the farm. Hospital facility offers a full range of services, including surgery, internal medicine, infectious diseases and isolation facilities and advanced diagnostic imaging. In practice, there are outpatient services for routine care and preventive medicine. Lameness and prepurchase examinations, as well as before and after the delivery of reproductive can be stable and they are known as the Dutchess County Equine Vet.

Pre-purchase exams should be an integral part of a well-informed decisions when buying a horse. Although the majority of examinations conducted on an outpatient service, complex lameness examinations requiring several attempts to diagnostic anesthesia for further definition of claudication and specific diagnostic images made in the hospital. In addition, some pre-purchase examination selectively carried to the hospital in order to facilitate planning, or if the image of the results immediately. Indoor ring provides a convenient place for us to consider the horses in motion.