Business | Buying or Selling a Practice

What this emergency and specialty center lacks in space, it makes up for in efficiency and accessibility.

You want a cut-and-dried answer. Three architects show there isnt always a cut-and-dried answer. But the more you know about that sometimes arbitrary number, the smarter youll be in planning, negotiating and building your best new veterinary hospital.

This interactive map collects the most current information from the AVMA on laws governing nonveterinarians owning or partly owning veterinary practices as relatively traditional corporations. Remember that laws are always changing, some attorneys have new ways to allow nonveterinary ownership, and your success will be based on the appropriate practice agreement you craft with your own lawyer. Now dive in!

Face it: Some areas of your practice are, well, kinda gross. Let this cleanliness-focused veterinary architect show you better ways to be germ-free.

Building and running a practice is all about efficiency these days, veterinary architect Dan Chapel explains.

No, we mean that in a good way! Your first little inkling, a fleeting thought, a dream of future wishes that you want to own a practice? Read this.

Veterinarians retain stake but focus exclusively on patient care.

Fewer than a third of veterinary professionals aspire to own a practice.

Veterinary architects Wayne Usiak and Heather Lewis discuss the appeal of smaller practices in today's market.

The future is calling! Will you answers? Decide after diving into insights from years Veterinary Economics Hospital Design Competition judging.

How veterinary teams pull together when a practice owner passes away or becomes incapacitated.

In holistic veterinary medicine the atmosphere is a key component in treatment, as one practitioner explains.

You might not examine your veterinary patients in low light, but there other places in the clinic where you can try this trick out.

Do dogs take an interest in faux trees? Maybe not, but clients love them.

North Carolina clinic serves cases that cant wait but dont need emergency hospitalization.

A few things are certain: Death, taxesand the countless ways a practice sale can be brought to a screeching halt.

As these business gurus follow us to dvm360.com, a few of them offer a parting piece of advice in the magazine for you.

A tight leasehold footprint could squeeze out this prospective practice owner.

We curated our very best tools to help you dream, plan, build and stock your next veterinary hospital.

Check out this interactive feature to see what elements make reception areas shine.

Sometimes all thats needed is a little creativity to help your feline patients feel better about being in your clinic.

Tougher standards can improve the legal professions well-deserved reputation.

Templates make the business paperwork easy, but the catch is knowing where to look for problems.

Architect Heather Lewis is working with veterinary experts to figure out what colors could help calm canines and felines in a veterinary practice.

The session shared facts, studies and attendee's personal experiences regarding the feminization of the profession.

A CVC forum hosted by dvm360 and WVLDI tackles issues confronting women in the profession.

Lawsuits and nuisance employees should give aspiring veterinary owners perspective.

Maybe not, experts say. Service, rather than separate space, should shine.

Strategic cage placement in veterinary practices can alleviate cats' behavioral problems.

What does a practice team need to do to be Fear-Free? That's an open question, but here is a checklist that tries to gather the very latest on the topic. Find out what you're doing, what you could start and what's going to need you to think about it for a while before trying ...