For Veterinarians Overview

We know that entrusting your patients to another doctor is a serious responsibility. At VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center, we want you to know that your referred patients will receive only the best care from us. You always can count on us to be your partners in health care. We have a full range of services and specialists to meet the needs presented by even your most challenging cases. Feel free to contact us for a tour of our facility and to meet some of our staff.

Overnight Care Services

'Overnight Care' is a service provided to referring veterinary practices in an effort to provide continuity of care for your patients from the time your practice closes until it opens again. Our hospital's nursing staff will monitor your stable patients and administer medications according to your treatment plan.

The following guidelines should be used when referring a patient for 'Overnight Care Services':

        Your patient must be clinically stable which means: 

• Only routine uncomplicated post-operative monitoring is required OR,
• The animal has clinically stable disease, already diagnosed by you, which requires simple physiological monitoring (TPR) overnight,
• The patient is not in need of laboratory tests while in our care (all lab work will be charged for separately, if requested)
• Your patient will be transferred BACK to you for further care or discharge.  We will not discharge your patient other than for return to your care.

Please note that VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral & Emergency Center provides Overnight Care Services as an extension of your practice care. Should your patient require treatments, lab work or other procedures not listed here, they will not qualify for this service. However, they can be transferred as a hospital case after speaking with one of our hospital's staff veterinarians.

To arrange for Overnight Care Services for your patient, please download and complete the Overnight Care Treatment Sheet below and call our hospital at 203-929-8600 for further instructions prior to transferring your patient.

OVERNIGHT CARE TREATMENT SHEET

Mobile Ultrasound Imaging Services

VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center now offers Mobile Abdominal Ultrasound; Thoracic Ultrasound and Echocardiogram Imaging Services for your patients.  A Shoreline Internal Medicine or Cardiology Specialist will travel to your practice and perform abdominal or thoracic ultrasounds or echocardiograms in-house for your patients. Our Specialists utilize the state-of-the-art GE Vivid i portable ultrasound system, which delivers real-time diagnostic information in high resolution images. For more information about this service, please contact Dr. Larry Berkwitt at 203-929-8600.

To arrange for imaging services, please complete our Imaging Request Form in full (click on 'SHORELINE IMAGING REQUEST FORM" link just below to open document) and fax it to the attention of Michele Papero, Fax # 203-929-8601. (Please note that this form is an interactive PDF. After opening the document, you may choose to either (1) type the needed information directly into the form, save and print or (2) print the document and handwrite your entries. In either case, please fax it to us as instructed above. 

SHORELINE IMAGING REQUEST FORM

Internship and Residency Programs

VCA Shoreline Veterinary Referral and Emergency Center is also a teaching hospital and offers internship and/or residency programs to veterinarians seeking advanced training in a specialty area. Please call us to learn more about these programs.

Continuing Education Program

Additionally, we offer conferences and seminars to help you meet your ongoing continuing education needs. Be sure to check our website often for conference listings.

Full Circle Forum Newsletter

At our VCA specialty hospitals, we appreciate the confidence accorded to us by the veterinary community. We value the collaborative relationships we have with local veterinary general practitioners which help us all provide the very best care for our patients. Seeking always to create more avenues of communication and also to highlight the important contributions being made in conjunction with our community veterinary partners, we are pleased to announce the launch of the bi-monthly online newsletter Full Circle Forum.

VCA specialty hospitals in New York and Connecticut have worked together to create Full Circle Forum in order to bring you a newsletter with an array of timely articles including interesting case reports, management topics and technical training tips.

Download our Full Circle Forum newsletters to print them out or read on your computer or mobile device:

• Full Circle Forum - November/December 2011
• Full Circle Forum - May/June 2011
• Full Circle Forum - March/April 2011
• Full Circle Forum - January/February 2011
• Full Circle Forum - November/December 2010
• Full Circle Forum - September/October 2010 (Premiere Issue)

If you would prefer to receive future Full Circle Forum newsletters via email or would like further information about the newsletter, please email: FullCircleForum@VCAhospitals.com