Welcome to a behind the scene tour of our veterinary hospital. A modern veterinary hospital is much more like a human hospital than your own doctors office.

The reception area and examination rooms are only a small part of our facility. Surgery, dentistry, x-ray, laboratory service, hospitalization, and pharmacy as well as many other special procedures are all done under one roof.

Reception Area

A clean, spacious reception area offers a warm and friendly welcome for our patients and their mom's and dad's. Here you are greeted and checked in to the hospital.

A separate alcove offers a quiet retreat for our feline and small mammal patients.

Displays in the reception area offer a variety of shampoos, custom identification tags, and other preventative and behavioral products. A nurse will come into the reception area to escort you and your pet to one of the five available exam rooms.

Exam Rooms

Our five examination rooms offer a quiet environment to diagnose problems and discuss your pet's health. A nurse will help you weigh your pet, obtain history and temperature of your pet.

The doctor will expand the history when appropriate and perform a thorough physical examination. Minor treatments, sample collection and medication will be dispensed here. More involved diagnostic tests may require your pet to be taken to our treatment room or stay a few hours.

At the completion of your visit after all your questions have been answered and appropriate handouts been explained you will be escorted back to the reception area near the exit hallway.

Main Treatment Room

This treatment room is centrally located in our hospital. This is where hospitalized or ill patients receive the special care, tests or medications they need.

The intensive care unit is located between the laboratory and the doctors office. This considered the "hub" of the treatment room and patients are under constant supervision.

The doctors office is a room adjacent to this area. A window keeps the doctors aware of all that is happening. This office has an extensive library for our and your pets' benefit.

Pharmacy

Our pharmacy stocks all the medications commonly used to treat the medical problems of our patients. Many of the drugs are human drugs and you may be familiar with some.

Our computer system generates a specific label, updates your pets computerized medical record, and prints informative cautions or instructions on the bottom of your receipt. We also have access to over 250 educational handouts of commonly diagnosed diseases that may be printed for you by the doctor.

Laboratory

Our in house laboratory allows us to analyze your pets blood or urine sample as soon as we take them, resulting in a quicker diagnosis and treatment. Other more advanced tests are submitted twice daily to a larger veterinary exclusive laboratory and results faxed back within 12-24 hours.

Two microscopes allow us to evaluate fecal and urine samples as well as ear swabs and cytology of aspirated masses.

Surgery Suite

In this special room all major sterile surgeries are performed. These range from spays and neuters to more advanced orthopedic or exploratory surgeries. This room is equipped with state-of-the-art equipment including gas anesthesia, patient monitors, suction and electrosurgical unit.

A fully trained veterinary technician staff is available to assist the surgeon. The room has two large observation windows to allow other hospital staff members to observe and assist as needed. Whenever surgery is performed, the most modern anesthetic agents, pain killers and procedures are utilized.

Dental Suite

Our dental suite is separate from the main treatment area. This room is specially designed and
equipped to perform comprehensive dental care on dogs or cats.
A variety of procedures can be performed from cleaning and polishing teeth to extractions or oral surgery.

Inside you will find two dental tables, intra oral x-ray machine, patient anesthetics and monitors, air powered drills and other instruments commonly used in dental care.

Special Procedures

The special procedures room is located off the treatment room. This room offers a quiet spot to perform many high tech procedures. Ultrasound allows us to look inside the body for diseases.

Ultrasound evaluation of the kidneys, liver and spleen as well as the heart provides us with valuable information on a daily basis. Endoscopy permits us to pass a very small camera in the body. With this instrument we can visualize things like gastric ulcers or foreign objects, colon polyps or bleeding tumors, and biopsy any abnormalities to obtain a diagnosis. Torapen is a digital instrument we use to measure the pressure in your pets eye. Glaucoma can be easily diagnosed using this instrument.

Radiology

The The x-ray equipment at our hospital allows us to conduct studies from the routine to the sophisticated. A high frequency x-ray machine and digital imaging system offers many benefits over standard (film based) systems. Digital images allow us to magnify and manipulate the image to better diagnose our patients conditions. When needed these images can be e-mailed to specialists for further evaluation.

Dental x-rays are a valuable tool in evaluating certain conditions that occur under the gums or inside the teeth. This is a human machine with animal specific settings, which result in high quality films.

Medical Wards

Pets that receive surgery are kept in a separate ward from our boarding patients. These wards are kept clean and quiet. The soft music in the ward is provided to comfort your pet. Here we try to minimize stress by treating each pet as if it were our own. Our goal is to return your pet as quickly as possible. We realize that after adequate rest, pets do best in the comfort of their own home.

Boarding

We have a large pet boarding area located in a separate wing of our facility. Our cat area has natural light and a television to make it feel like "home".

 

The dog boarding area has a wide range of kennel sizes. Piped in music and a separate ventilation system maintains a pleasant atmosphere. This area has access to a large grass yard for extra exercise and attention offered at the owner's request.

Grooming

Our groomer uses a hydrosurge massage therapy bathing system. We believe it is the most effective way to bathe your pet. To compliment this system we have a full line of shampoos and conditioners to treat your pets special skin condition. Once dry, our groomer will perform a professional grooming which includes ear cleaning and plucking (if necessary), nail trim, anal sac expression, and breed specific haircut (or style of your choice).

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