General health care: Dentistry, vaccines, coggins, skin disease, exams, and castrations.
Reproduction: Artificial insemination 100 cases/year, stallion collection 55 cases/year, semen freezing 4 stallions/year, problem mares, high risk foaling.
Surgery: 85% Soft tissue, and 15% orthopedic. Approximately 42 colic surgeries/year
Referral: Emergencies, surgeries, medicine, lameness
Type of cases as percentage:
15% emergency (colic, lacerations, neuro)
20% Lameness, pre purchase
15% referral
20% General health (vaccines, coggins, exams, skin disease, castrations)
10% Reproduction
20% surgery
We have two boarded surgeons, and three general practitioners. Our treatment area is staffed with 3 highly trained licensed technicians, 20 assistants/barn personnel responsible for patient care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 3 front office staff members. Our licensed technicians are primarily responsible for overseeing the assistants, anesthesia, client communication, managing our clients individual parasite programs, lab work, and inventory. Our assistants are responsible for assisting the doctors with daily appointments, in house patient care, instrument sterilization, patient transport services, and maintaining the bio-security protocols. The front office makes and receives appointments, manages all of our larger barn accounts, accounts receivable, in house patient updates, patient follow ups, routine reminders, estimates, and Facebook, Twitter and website account management.
Waller Equine Hospital sits on 9 acres of beautiful pasture land on FM 2920 Road northwest of Houston in Waller, TX. Our main building consists of a reception area, administrative office, veterinary offices, an employee and client lounge/conference area, pharmacy, digital radiography viewing, laboratory, and a large surgical suite with two recovery/induction stalls, and a reproduction lab. We have internship and externship housing on site.
The patient facility consists of an indoor and outdoor exam area, a breeding shed, 5 intensive care stalls, 15 hospital stalls, an isolation unit, 13 large paddocks, and 2 pastures. Diagnostic equipment such as digital radiography, repro/tendon/abdominal ultrasound, video endoscopy/gastroscopy, PRP centrifuge, Anderson sling, dental power float, video arthroscopic and laparascopic equipment, internal fixation equipment, blood gas analysis, gas anesthesia, positive pressure ventilation, ECG, direct blood pressure monitoring, in house culturing, complete blood cell counts, and biochemical profiles. We have 4 ambulatory vehicles, and a hauling service.
Name of vets in practice:
Christopher P. Boutros DVM, DVSc, DACVS
Jennifer Whyard BVetMed, MRCVS, DACVS - LA
Erica Beadle, DVM
Emily Ligon, DVM
Alex Bridges, DVM
Hospital hours are Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm and Saturdays 10am – 2pm. We are available for after-hours emergencies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Externs and technicians are responsible for morning assessments and treatments on hospitalized patients. We see approximately 36 horses per day with 2 daytime emergencies. We see approximately 2.5 horses per night/weekend on emergency. The extern will be working side by side with the doctors throughout the day helping with scheduled appointments and triaging emergencies.). The hours during your externship are Monday-Friday 8am-5pm, on call no less than 2 weeknights and 1 weekend day/night for every week you are externing. "On call" means that you come in for emergencies after hours.
The housing is behind the hospital, it is the first of the three mobile homes in the back by the pastures. The housing is shared with up to two other interns/externs. You will be able to park your car beside that mobile home. You are welcome to arrive a day before your first scheduled extern day. Unfortunately we do not have TV or internet in the mobile homes yet. We do have a refrigerator, stove, couches, washer/dryer and bed/bedding. You will need to bring your own food and toiletries. We ask that at the end of your stay you clean the room and launder the bedding that has been provided.