Newsday: Re: Sunday, March 27, 2011 full-page article.
3/28/11- A Letter To The Editor:
Sunday’s Newsday article entitled 'Offtrack hospital on hold' by Aisha Al-Muslim contains several inaccuracies. The closure of the IEAH Ruffian Equine Medical Center has not 'left horse owners without specialty medical services on Long Island.'
The Long Island Equine Medical Center PC has remained fully functional since 1990. It is a well staffed hi-tech full service equine hospital located in Huntington, Long Island. Dr. Gregory Beroza is its founding owner and Chief of Staff for over 21 years. He has been caring for the horses and providing services to their owners from the Long Island and immediate tri-state metropolitan area for 31 years.
Horses do not have to ship unreasonable distances or be forced to endure exorbitant shipping expenses; as Huntington’s LIEMC is only 20 miles from Belmont Park and is actually closer to pleasure horses living on Long Island than the former non-functional IEAH hospital. Over the past 24 years, the LIEMC has successfully tended to thousands of horses of all breeds, sizes, and uses with top level medical, diagnostic and surgical care. It was already acknowledged and well written up as professionally recognized industry expert by Newsday itself (Joe Gergen 5/31/98, Ellen Mitchell 2/22/00, Mark Harrington 6/19/05, Al Baker 2/28/97 and others).
Dr. Beroza is board certified in 2 veterinary specialties: surgery (American College of Veterinary Surgeons) and in equine practice (American Board of Veterinary Practitioners). He initially began his LIEMC specialty practice in a surgical suite on the grounds of Belmont Park in 1987, at which location he still maintains his satellite racetrack office. A fully functional hi-tech LIEMC in 1990 preceded the opening of IEAH’s Ruffian Center in 5/09 by 19 years.
Dr. Beroza has been a professional pioneer and clinical practitioner in the use of nuclear diagnostics and xero-radiography, surgical arthroscopy and orthopedic fracture fixation, emergency colic surgery, bowed tendon treatment, novel throat surgical procedures, shockwave therapy, power dentistry, lameness evaluations, hospitalization, and competent medical care.
Prior to opening his own private hospital, Dr. Beroza was a staff surgeon at the Tufts Veterinary School in Massachusetts. He also worked as a staff surgeon at Belmont Park alongside pioneer surgical legend Dr. William O. Reed, upon whose hospital footprint the new Ruffian hospital under new IEAH ownership has been re-built.
Long Island and metropolitan tri-state horse owners should rest assured that the LIEMC remains available on a 24/7 basis to provide necessary ambulatory, hospital and emergency services. The owner of the horse who just had successful life-saving colic surgery last night is grateful that she brought her horse to the LIEMC. See HorseDoc.com for more information and/or call 631/427-2213.
Dr. Gregory Beroza
LIEMC Owner & Chief of Staff
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