Cornell to Operate Ruffian Equine Specialists Hospital

The Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine has signed a lease-buy for the former Ruffian Equine Medical Center, located near Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y.
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Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine has signed a lease-buy agreement with Racebrook Capital Advisors, LLC, for the former Ruffian Equine Medical Center to establish Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists, a referral and emergency care hospital. 

The hospital, located near the Belmont Racetrack backstretch in Elmont, N.Y., is expected to open April 1, 2014, and will provide elective equine specialty services to horses referred by their attending veterinarians. Full emergency and critical care services will be offered by the spring of 2015.

Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists will partner with referring veterinarians to meet the needs of New York State racing and the surrounding sport horse communities.

The 22,000 square-foot facility will provide state-of-the-art surgical, imaging, diagnostic, and rehabilitation services to enhance equine health. Alan Nixon, BVSc, MS, Dipl. ACVS, a renowned equine orthopedic surgeon and director of the Cornell’s Comparative Orthopedics Laboratory, will serve as the Chief Medical Officer of Cornell Ruffian Equine Specialists. Lisa Fortier, DVM, PhD, Dipl. ACVS, and Norm Ducharme, DMV, MSc, Dipl. ACVS, pioneers in regenerative and laryngeal procedures, will also offer advanced surgical procedures

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