State of the Art Facility:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital is located in central Conifer just 2 miles off hwy 285 on Pleasant Park and Oehlmann Park Road. We have a 4000 sq ft main hospital facility and an additional 3500 sq ft annex complete with a large office/reception area and a full in-house laboratory. We have 5 indoor climate-controlled ICU stalls, 4 additional non-critical stalls, and 7 outdoor stalls with runs for our large animal patients. For the animals' comfort and safety, all stalls have 3/4' interlocking rubber mats and we have dedicated animal handling areas. All of our ICU stalls have 24-hr color camera monitoring with internet access. Additionally we have a heated wash-rack/treatment area, mobile and in-house stocks, a padded surgery/recovery suite, and a huge outdoor riding arena for turnout, riding, and lameness exams. Should you need plenty of space to turn around and park trailers, we have that too.
Our small animal hospital boasts a cozy waiting room, two exam rooms with natural lighting, a radiology consultation room, a kennel room, and a deluxe surgical suite.
What We Do:
- Large Animal Preventative Care/General Health:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides a wide array of preventative care including vaccinations, deworming, male hygiene, advanced dental care, nutritional evaluations, geriatric exams, Equine Infectious Anemia (Coggins) testing, and health certificates. This hospital firmly believes that regular preventive care and veterinary examinations are critical to the health and longevity of your 4-legged companions. We believe that "one size fits all" vaccine and de-worming programs are not appropriate. Our veterinarians work with our clients to customize and determine the specific vaccine, deworming, dental, and nutritional plans to optimally meet your animals' needs. We also offer discounted pre-paid wellness plans available with one year's worth of routine preventative care, vaccines, dental care, and deworming for both traditional paste deworming and also for daily dewormer – please contact the office for more information.
- Small Animal Veterinary Care:
Aspen Creek provides comprehensive small animal care including: wellness examinations, vaccines, surgery, dental care, oncology (cancer treatment), rehabilitation of orthopedic disease, and a variety of other services. Surgical services include spay, neuter, soft tissue, and orthopedic repairs including fractures and ACLs (extracapsular, TPLO etc.). Please call with any questions or to schedule an appointment! Our veterinarians are available for house calls for small animal patients as well as Compassionate Home Euthanasia Services. Aspen Creek is also one of the very few small animal veterinary services in the foothills available for after hours emergencies for your dogs and cats.
- Equine Dentistry:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital has provided advanced equine dentistry services along Denver's Front Range for many years. Visit our Dentistry section for more details. We also provide specialty dentistry services such as performance horse treatments, bit seats, dental extractions, and a variety of dental and sinus surgeries..
- Diagnostic Capabilities: Radiology (X-Ray):
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides high quality mobile and in-house digital radiology services. Our digital system is truly state of the art and allows portable on-site radiograph development and viewing. Some clients may still be referred to the clinic for best radiograph quality and viewing. Our service provides online digital archiving – this makes it easy to email images to clients or other veterinarians in a matter of seconds. We also have the ability to take high quality radiographs of larger dogs without having to place them on the radiology table, reducing patient stress.
- Diagnostic Capabilities: Ultrasound:
Our doctors have extensive training in ultrasound diagnostics. Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides reproductive exams and pregnancy checks, as well as soft tissue, tendon/ligament, thoracic, and abdominal ultrasound evaluations. For dogs and cats, ultrasound evaluation is a more sensitive means of early pregnancy detection than radiographs..
- Diagnostic Capabilities: Endoscopy:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital has a 1 meter video endoscope. This equipment allows detailed evaluation of the function and anatomy of the nasal passages, throat, airway, lungs, esophagus, and guttural pouches. It provides clear pictures that you, as the owner, can visualize during the examination. This endoscope can also be used for sinusoscopy, and evaluation of the bladder or uterus.
- Diagnostic Capabilities: In-House Laboratory
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital’s laboratory provides the ability to give immediate and same-day lab results for CBC, Chemistry, Electrolytes, heartworm tests, FeLV tests, Equine IgG, Giardia, Parvo, and fecal examinations, etc. In-house lab equipment provides our doctors and clients with more immediate results and improves our ability to provide the best critical care to our patients.
- Lameness / Pre-Purchase Horse Exams:
Our doctors have extensive experience in lameness evaluations. Combined with the diagnostic capabilities of radiology and ultrasound, we will meet your needs or provide referral for excellent outside services such as nuclear medicine, CT, or MRI as indicated. We also have the capability to perform stem cell therapy, platelet rich plasma (PRP) and IRAP treatments, which can be extremely beneficial in the treatment, management, and rehabilitation of soft tissue injuries and joint disease.
- Mesotherapy:
 Mesotherapy is a treatment that stimulates the mesoderm, the middle layer of the skin, which can, in turn relieve a wide variety of symptoms and ailments in horses. The technique in somewhat similar to acupuncture, but involves the injection of a combination of herbal anti-inflammatories as well as traditional medications in a dilute solution to stimulate the mesoderm. The mesotherapy injections involve extremely small needles that penetrate the intradermal layer of the skin only a very small depth, which is typically four to six millimeters. The number of treatments needed depends on many variables including the condition, the abnormal physiology causing the condition, as well as the chronicity of the problem. A minimum of one to two sessions of mesotherapy are performed generally to assess the horse's response. Mesotherapy can be effective for a multitude of conditions because it helps reverse the physiology of that condition, and stop the “pain-spasm cycle”. This technique has proven to be especially helpful in the treatment of patients with conditions such as back pain and degenerative arthritis of the back and cervical vertebrae (neck).
- Mare Reproductive Services:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital is proud to assist you with a full spectrum of reproductive care including pre-breeding mare exams, artificial insemination, pregnancy checks, and post-partum care of the mare and foal. Please call for our competitive package pricing for pre-breeding exams and for artificial insemination contracts.
- Emergency and Critical Care:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital is available 24 hours per day for large animal emergency calls. We have doctors available for consultation for small animal emergencies as well. Small animal (dogs, cats, etc) emergencies will be handled on a case by case basis in order to ensure the best care for your pets. We can provide hospitalization cases in need of critical care including intravenous fluids with the exception of surgical colics. Some emergencies may be referred to outside clinics when indicated to provide the highest level of care.
- Mobile Services:
Complete mobile services for large and small animal patients are provided to the mountain communities centered around the Conifer, Pine, Bailey and Evergreen area, but we will provide appointments to clients along Denver's Front Range including but not limited to: Golden, Lakewood, Littleton, Wheatridge, Arvada, etc. We are equipped with a fully stocked vet pack and can provide general care, radiology (x-ray), ultrasound, and Equine Dentistry services at your location or ours. We are also available for referring small animal veterinarians if they have patients needing radiographs (x-rays) at home or compassionate home euthanasia.
- Hospitalization:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides hospitalization for both critical and non-critical cases. Animals in need of bandage changes, daily wound care, or medication administration also have the option of hospitalization. We provide post operative rehabilitation for colic surgery, arthroscopy, and any other procedures or injuries that require controlled exercise programs. Please let our highly trained staff take care of your horses or other animals for you with the benefit of veterinary supervision! Also, our facility allows to option of dropping patients off in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon for drop-off appointments or scheduling "haul-in" appointments with no office fee or farm call charges.
- Surgery:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides an array of general surgery services including but not limited to: Large animal: castrations, cryptorchid castrations, tendon surgeries (splitting, annular ligament transection, check ligament), splint bone fragment removal, hernia repairs, tumor removal, laceration repair, joint flushes, regional antibiotic perfusions, enucleation, periosteal stripping, cast application, tooth removal, sinus trephination, etc. Colic surgeries, arthroscopy, and long bone fractures are referred to surgical referral centers. Small animal surgery services include: most soft tissue and abdominal procedures including but not limited to spays, neuters, mass removals, splenectomy, exploratory abdominal surgery, enucleation, etc. Most orthopedic procedures can also be performed including fracture repair and ruptured ACL surgical options. We offer very competitive pricing on our surgeries as well as the highest quality patient care. All surgical patients receive pre-anesthetic blood work, an IV catheter, IV fluids, pain medication, a heated water blanket, and comprehensive anesthetic monitoring, Please call to see if we can meet your needs.
- Non-Equine and Livestock Services
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides complete services including hospitalization and surgery for New World Camelids (llamas and alpacas), small ruminants (goats, sheep), bovine patients, and pigs (including pot-bellied). We are available for herd health consultations as well. Please feel free to call if you have any questions about the care of your non-equine patients!
- Animal Chiropractic:
Aspen Creek Veterinary Hospital provides Animal Chiropractic evaluations and adjustments as needed. Shannon Harland, DVM is IVCA (International Veterinary Chiropractic Association) certified. Chiropractic adjustment can be extremely beneficial for many performance related problems and is especially useful in combination with other modalities such as conventional joint therapy and mesotherapy treatments. Visit our Chiropractic section for more details. If you have any questions about equine chiropractic manipulation or would like to schedule an appointment, please don’t hesitate to call.l.
- Shockwave Therapy (ESWT):
Shockwave therapy actually does not produce any electric shock, but is rather a very strong energy pulse. These energy pulses can be directed at soft tissue structures, bones, or joints to help reduce inflammation, increase blood supply, and speed healing. Although shock wave therapy does not necessarily work for all injuries and conditions, in many cases it can help to speed the rate and quality of tendon or ligament healing in both fresh and older injuries. It has also been proven to be beneficial in speeding wound healing and decreasing bacterial contamination of wounds. More recently, the shock wave energy pulses have been used to treat inflammation in arthritic or painful joints and also to help speed healing at fracture sites such as splint bone fractures. Shockwave, in some cases, can provide a non-invasive alternative to traditional joint injections or another treatment for patients who have become non-responsive to joint injections. We have been very pleased with the results of shockwave treatments on a variety of conditions within our practice. ESWT also has many implications for use in canine patients. It can help relieve pain associated with arthritis or degenerative changes in the lower back. It can also be useful for some tendon and ligament injuries. ESWT is a non-invasive treatment that in some cases can help patients avoid surgery, and can reduce the need for injections or daily medications. If you have any questions about how shockwave therapy might benefit your animal, please feel free to contact us at any time.
- Animal Acupuncture:
We have veterinarians available for Animal Acupuncture consultations and treatment sessions. Acupuncture can be beneficial for a variety of conditions in horses, dogs, and cats including but not limited to intervertebral disk disease, back pain, neck pain, peripheral nerve paralysis or damage, hot spots, IBD, urinary or fecal incontinence, megacolon, urinary tract inflammation, chronic renal failure, chronic pain or arthritis, and intestinal stasis. If you have more questions about animal acupuncture or would like to schedule an appointment, please call the office.
Please call to see if we can meet your needs.
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