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.
Finance
What are you buying exactly?
If you’re considering veterinary practice ownership, learn the differences between an equity purchase and an asset purchase.
Legal Issues
A Handshake Isn’t Enough
Veterinary practice partnership agreements need to be tightly written and account for eventualities, such as how disputes are settled and how a buyout is accomplished.
Practice Ownership
Insure your property properly
Extensions. Deductibles. Exclusions. Not understanding the terms of your commercial policy could leave you short on coverage.