Midwest's Most Affordable Pet Care Hospital 708-345-2146
See Why We're Different...
For your pet... We do our best. Every day.
What this means is that we strive to equip ourselves to serve the needs of your pet better and better every day. This means constant learning for all of our staff in order to gain the knowledge and wisdom to practice better Veterinary Medicine. It means investing in equipment that allows us to do better job all the time. It means never being satisfied with the status quo, but striving to stay atop the latest developments and techniques.
In many ways, we set the standard for Veterinary Medicine in the chicago area.
What do we do that makes us different?
Continuous Education:
Our professional staff is required to attend Continuing Education on a regular basis.Professional Staff attends many continuous education seminars and webinars on constant basis. These minimum standards are routinely exceeded by our staff members.
Dr. Marwaha is a long-time member of the American Veterinary Medical Ecucation (AVMA) and Idexx Learning Center, where consultation with the very best experts in veterinary medicine from around the country and the world is readily available and routinely used in making decisions for your pet's care.
Pain Control:
It is a long disproven myth that it is good for animals to have pain because it limits their activity.We address pain control aggressively.Through science, we know that animals whose pain is treated aggressively recover quicker and do better than animals that are allowed to suffer.
StonePark Animal Hospital treats pain with the best drugs and techniques available, including routine use of Continuous Rate Infusions (CRI’s) and epidural and other types of pain blocks.After hospitalization, we provide advanced pain medications whenever they are needed for the ongoing comfort of your pet.
Patient Safety:
We monitor our surgical patients very carefully.We use the latest equipment and have personnel present to monitor the patient throughout anesthetic procedures and during recovery.Our routine surgical monitoring includes measuring blood oxygen and ECG parameters throughout the procedure. All that is in addition to physically touching and monitoring patients during anesthesia.
We use mechanical ventilators to breathe for our patients (especially important in larger dogs) as needed during anesthetic procedures.In our surgery suite we have ready access to resuscitation equipment, including defibrillators, and any drugs that may be necessary.
We routinely perform anesthetic procedures on very elderly pets and high risk animals. Our safety record is very good because we take the time to fully evaluate our patients and make minute to minute adjustments in their care.
Patient Care:
Studies confirm that patients kept warm during and after surgical procedures do better under anesthesia and have better recovery rates after the procedures.We use advanced heating techniques and devices that allow us to keep your pet warm during and after surgical procedures.
StonePark Animal Hospital does not believe in “white knuckling” it with minimal staffing.We are very well staffed, which allows our doctors to focus on being doctors and our staff members to focus on doing their jobs to the best of their ability, whether it be nursing care or walking dogs or changing litter boxes.Patients are closely attended at all times within the hospital, and our staff is constantly cleaning cages and taking care of the personal needs of every animal within the facility.
Over and over, our clients tell us our loving patient care sets us apart in the region.
Diagnostics:
StonePark Animal Hospital has the only Direct Digital Radiography facility in the entire area. Our equipment sets the standard in the industry and includes regular Direct Digital Radiography. Digital Radiography allows us to obtain very high quality instant x-rays in order to help reach quick diagnoses for your pet.
While we can run emergency (STAT) lab tests in house (including blood gas and electrolytes) in our brand new state of the art idexx all computerized VetLab station with the most advanced and fastes equipment in the industry, we use nationally certified reference labs for all our routine lab work, providing you with reliable results. For cultures we use idexx laboratory services that meet the exacting standards of the human health care industry.
