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 twenty-seven equine clinicians will care for approximately four thousand 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 Orthopaedic Research Center.

In recognition of the Denver-based foundation's gift, the $47 million facility will be named the Helen and Arthur E. Johnson Family Equine Hospital. In June, the foundation announced that this will be its final year of grantmaking. Two smaller family foundations will begin awarding grants by 2017.

"We deeply appreciate this generous gift from the Johnson Foundation and greatly value its leadership in supporting health and education across Colorado," said CSU president Tony Frank. "The foundation has been a dedicated supporter of university programs for more than twenty years, and this gift will provide a monumental step forward for equine veterinary medicine at Colorado State."