Allegheny Equine Associates
Internal Medicine
Allegheny Equine’s Internal Medicine and Isolation Unit allows us to provide advanced care to the horse with the goal of allowing them to lead longer, healthier, and more productive lives by managing acute and chronic medical conditions. Our board-certified internal medicine specialist helps guide our team to ensure the best patient evaluation, diagnosis and treatment. If you have been working with your primary care provider but need an advanced medicine consultation, this can be done with our internist.
At our facilities, patients visit for:
Out-patient visits for anything from wellness work and dentals to evaluation of a medical illness or lameness.
Intermediate care such as wound management, daily administration of medications, supportive care during an illness, foaling out of pregnant mares, advanced ophthalmic and dental conditions
Intensive care and advanced diagnostics for critical illnesses such as colic, diarrhea, pneumonia, inflammatory airway disease or “heaves/equine asthma,” fevers, and sick foals.
Isolation for horses and foals with potentially contagious diseases.
Equine Medicine Facility Features
Our 30-stall facility has multiple temperature-controlled treatment areas, an isolation area to contain contagious diseases, a computerized medical record system that allows our staff to be more effective and efficient with patient care, 24-hour support staff and cameras for remote monitoring by our veterinarians. Our full-service in-house laboratory allows us to run critical blood work immediately to provide a quick diagnosis and timely monitoring. Outdoor paddocks allow turnout for mares and foals and other patients with non-infectious conditions.
Jake Swink
Dr. Jacob Swink grew up in nearby Acme, Pennsylvania, competing in 4-H and the Western Pennsylvania Youth Rodeo Association. He attended The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine where he earned his DVM in 2016. Following graduation, Dr. Swink completed a year-long rotating hospital internship at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky. He then returned to The Ohio State University to complete an Equine Internal Medicine Residency from 2017-2020. During this time, Jacob also obtained his M.S. while studying neonatal foal endocrinology. Each year of his residency, Dr. Swink spent additional time at Rood and Riddle gaining further training in equine neonatal critical care. Following graduation, Dr. Swink spent 3 years working at nearby Brown Equine Hospital, seeing a variety of internal medicine cases. Dr. Swink’s professional interests include equine neonatology, cardiology, and respiratory disease.
