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Contact Information
Cornell University
Hospital for Animals
Box 20
College of
Veterinary Medicine
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-6401
Phone: 607 253-3100
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Farm Animal Hospital
Cattle. Sheep, goats, swine. Llamas, alpacas, even camels. Approximately 1,000 farm animals receive health and medical care each year in our Farm Animal Hospital. Additionally, nearly 40,000 farm animals are visited each year by our ambulatory and production animal medicine service, whose staff travel to area farms to provide health care on-site. The professional excellence of our veterinary medical staff assures the best health care for the animals we treat.
Primary Care
We assist practicing veterinarians and their clients by offering routine health care, as well as around-the-clock emergency medicine, critical care, neonatal intensive care, and specialty medicine. In addition to the treatment of individual patients, the Farm Animal Hospital also investigates herd outbreaks so that diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease may be practiced.
Specialty Services
Many of our patients at the Farm Animal Hospital are referred by veterinarians throughout the Northeast for evaluation by our faculty specialists for complicated medical or surgical problems. Our specialty services include:
Ambulatory and Production Animal Medicine
Veterinarians visit more than 400 farms in a 30-mile radius of Ithaca each year to provide care for more than 37,000 cattle, 1,650 sheep, 400 goats, 350 swine, and 200 llamas and alpacas.
Anesthesiology
General anesthesia for diagnostic procedures and surgery; pain management.
Behavioral Medicine
Diagnosis and treatment of problems such as aggression, stall problems, phobias to thunder and other noise, and destructiveness. Techniques include animal learning, behavior modification, and medication.
Cardiology
State-of-the-art diagnosis of cardiac abnormalities such as arrhythmias, implantation of cardiac pacemakers, repair of cardiac defects (surgically and by cardiac catheterization).
Dermatology
Diagnosis, therapy, and follow-up care for animals with skin disease or skin problems that are commonly caused by allergies, parasites, infections, or hormonal imbalances.
Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic radiographic procedures for all species. Radiographs of even the densest parts of large animals - chest, spine, and pelvis. Image intensification systems with digital imaging capability, used to examine swallowing, cardiac chambers, vascular systems, and bowel action. Ultrasound equipment for abdominal studies, echocardiology, and musculoskeletal studies. Computed tomography (CT) for anatomy studies in three-dimensional detail; in tumor identification, particularly with brain and lung cancers; in examining pulmonary diseases; in studying diseases of the eye and ear; and in angiographic studies of internal organs such as the heart, liver, or kidneys. Nuclear imaging for bone scans of the musculoskeletal system to help detect incomplete and stress fractures.
Internal Medicine
Diagnosis and treatment of serious health problems such as diabetes, cancer, pulmonary problems, and infectious disease. Nutritional services, parenteral nutrition.
Ophthalmology
Diagnosis and treatment of problems of the eye.
Soft-tissue Surgery and Orthopedic Surgery
Theriogenology
All aspects of animal reproductive health, including obstetrics, breeding soundness exams, infertility, artificial insemination, embryo transfer, semen freezing, embryo freezing, and reproductive surgery.
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