Practice Ownership
The Banker’s Role in a Practice Acquisition
You can’t afford to skip any critical steps when buying a veterinary practice.
Finance
Don’t Shortchange Yourself
Practice owners, just like their staff, deserve fair compensation. Revenue is key, of course, but you can increase it by regularly adjusting your fee schedules and eliminating giveaways.
Practice Management
Stop Observing and Start Reacting
What does an independent veterinary practice need to do to meet the demand for a new way of doing business? Implement telemedicine, enrolled preventive/membership care plans, urgent care hours and hospice care.
Hospital Construction/Design
How to Modernize Your Veterinary Practice
Embrace new techniques to increase customer satisfaction, boost productivity and drive revenue long term.
Practice Ownership
Ready, Set, Grow!
Elevating your hospital from the status quo to something really fabulous requires an honest assessment of where you stand and then formulation of a detailed action plan.
Finance
Should you buy a no-lo practice?
Don’t automatically rule out a profit-challenged hospital. The problems, from a less-involved owner to poor inventory controls, might be easily correctable.
From the Editor
The Past and the Future
Who wants to own a veterinary hospital? Listening to the American Veterinary Medical Association’s chief economist, Dr. Matthew Salois, I found out that fewer people do.