Overview
McGee Medicine Center specializes in the critical care and treatment of horses suffering from acute or chronic disease, injury, and provides long-term surgery recovery services in its post-surgical care unit. Its emergency care team is ready to spring into action 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Each year, this center sees over 2,500 medicine and critical care cases, of which more than 450 are critically ill newborn foals. Cases treated include a full spectrum of diseases, from cardio-respiratory, autoimmune, gastro-intestinal and dermatologic conditions, to laminitis, neurological, and toxicologic diseases. All breeds have occupied its 56 stall facility from Thoroughbreds to Arabians, Miniature horses to Belgian Draft horses and elite show horses. Over a dozen turn-out paddocks are available for use during the patient's recovery.
The Center's intensive care unit is a dedicated 14-stall wing reserved for the critically ill or for compromised foals and their dams.
Procedures, medications and treatments are constantly updated under the expert direction of board-certified internists and critical care specialists. Continuing education for the staff is part of the ongoing process to provide the very best in medical care for the horses of the Bluegrass and for those shipped in from other locations to this state-of-the-art facility.