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Why Partner with Us?

Offer specialty-level surgery within your own facility, with less expense to your client.

  • Gone is the time when a veterinarian had to wear ALL the hats...to be a jack of all trades, master of none.

  • Surgical standard of care is changing rapidly, especially when it comes to sterility, surgical technique, and pain management. Along with this comes increased liability for using outdated practices and techniques.
    Don't worry...we have your back!

  • You can increase your clinic's surgical revenue without purchasing additional equipment or maintaining orthopedic implant inventory, and without increasing the workload on you or your staff.

  • Rest easy that you are offering your patients the best possible care.

Our team is low-impact.

  • Our team includes a dedicated anesthetist and surgical tech, so we don't need to borrow a tech.

  • We take care of anesthesia, including drug calculations, so you don't have to.  

  • We take care of all shaving, using our clippers and freshly disinfected blades.

  • We bring everything: instruments, drapes, gowns, gloves, sutures...even the anesthesia monitor! All we need is your OR table, anesthesia machine, and x-ray.

  • We handle taking care of pre- and postop x-rays. Proper positioning for orthopedic x-rays can be tricky - we take care of this! If your team is interested in learning, we are happy to teach!

  • We always leave your OR cleaner than we found it.

We dot the i's and cross the t's.

  • Your recovery technician receives a checklist of postop treatments  and recommended Rx's to be dispensed.

  • Dr. Hughes calls the client postop to let them know how surgery went and to answer their questions. 

  • Before our team leaves, you receive emailed PDFs of the surgery report, discharge instructions, anesthesia monitoring record, and surgery consent for your files. 

We are passionate about pain control.

  • Dr. Hughes designs a multimodal, comprehensive pain control plan for each patient. If her plan involves a medication that your clinic doesn’t carry, we provide it at no extra charge, because we believe that excellent pain control is just that important. 

  • All patients receive Nocita injections during surgery, providing 72 hours of excellent local analgesia. The cost of these injections is included in the surgery fee.

  • Postop prescription and nutraceutical recommendations are made, however, you always have the final say, as you know your patients best!

We offer cutting-edge sterility and infection control. 

  • We bring our own clippers with freshly disinfected blades to decrease skin trauma and contamination during patient prep.

  • Skin is aseptically prepared with Duraprep, which not only kills bacteria on the surface of the skin, it is also bactiricidal within the follicles for at least 48 hours after surgery.

  • For all surgeries with orthopedic implants or contamination, we use Simini Protect at the end of surgery. Simini is a non-antibiotic solution that kills 99.98% of bacteria within 60 seconds of contact. 

Our website offers many educational tools to help support you, your clients, and your practice.

Partner Clinic program drives big-ticket surgical revenue to your clinic.

  • Pet owners who find us on the web are directed to contact one of our Partner Clinics, featured prominently on our Home Page. They schedule an exam with you, so that you can confirm or refine the diagnosis, discuss surgical options, provide an estimate, and coordinate scheduling.

  • Owners often choose to transfer their pet's ongoing care to the Partner Clinic because they appreciate the convenience of having a family vet that offers advanced surgery in-house.

  • Partner Clinics enjoy free text and email-based case consultations, even if the case is unlikely to go to surgery.

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If you are interested in joining our Partner Clinic network, just send a quick message using the Contact Us box below.

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