Colorado State University Receives $10 Million for Equine Hospital

Colorado State University has announced a $10 million gift from the Helen K. and Arthur E. Johnson Foundation to build a new teaching equine hospital, promote equine medicine, and provide specialty care for horses.

The gift will support construction of a 180,000-square-foot-facility on CSU's Fort Collins campus, where 27 equine clinicians will care for approximately 4,000 horse patients each year and conduct clinical studies that provide new knowledge in equine medicine. The hospital also will house a high-resolution computed tomography scanner—the only one of its kind in the region—for use in standing patients for accurate and low-stress diagnosis of disease and injury in the head and neck. In addition, the gift will be used to expand the university's respected equine sports medicine and rehabilitation program in partnership with CSU's Orthopedic Research Center.