The relationship between a specialty veterinarian and a family veterinarian is important. Specialists are an extension of the family veterinarian, not a replacement. We take cases that are beyond the scope of the family vet to help your clients and patients, and then transfer care back to the family veterinarian. We encourage all of our clients to return to their family veterinarian after their pets have recovered under our care.

Please fill out the Patient Referral Form and fax it back to us at 303-678-8855. Including any bloodwork from the last six months is also extremely helpful.

If your patient requires overnight care after a specialty procedure, we automatically transfer that patient to our emergency team. Conversely, in the case of an emergency, a patient will be automatically referred to the appropriate specialty team for further care, if necessary. Our specialty and emergency teams work very closely to ensure a seamless quality of care for all patients.

After the initial consultation, if we need further medical history in order to help us make a diagnosis, we will call you for a consultation. Whether we call for further information or not, we send a letter to you with information regarding the diagnosis and proposed treatment of your patient. After your patient undergoes a procedure, we follow-up with you once more with a letter outlining how the procedure went and the recommended discharge instructions for a healthy recovery.

When an overnight emergency case comes to us, we may or may not recommend that the patient be transferred to our specialty team based on the prognosis.  We will always confer with you on this decision and request written approval before doing so. Whether you would like to approve the request or transfer the patient to your care, you can contact us.

When positioning for a TPLO radiograph, make sure to have a lateral view of the stifle with the hock and stifle each held at a 90-degree angle. The second view needed is with the patient sternal with the affected limb stretched out behind them. The patella should be lined up with the metatarsus to ensure the leg is as straight as possible.