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Veterinary design projects are a serious investment. Use these tips from Dan Chapel AIA, NCARB, to help you keep it manageable in the process.

Our recent survey uncovered your most pressing problemshigh peaks you struggle to summit. Here are the top problems, with some suggested advice to help.

How to add better medicine, smarter business, engaging education and a little fun in your reception area and avoid just thinking, Um, put the desk over there.

Putting thought into the interior design of your veterinary hospital has myriad benefits.

Increasing hard costs and restrictions on income have driven up veterinary prices.

Will Dr. Greenskin bite back at Dr. Codgers carefully prepared offer? Or will Dr. Codger eat crow?

You can appeal to fun, style and client satisfaction everywhere else in your hospital design. The surgery suite is where you keep it real ... real CLEAN.

Don't let your sign detract from the quality care you provide. Use these tips to boost your curb appeal.

Self-employed people—from Uber drivers to high-powered consultants—need to save for retirement, and a tax-advantaged retirement plan is the best way.

You can make time for life and family and hobbies and healthy priorities and healthy boundaries as a practice owner. Let your team help.

Practice owners: You own/rent a building. You employ a staff. You have computers. If youre interested, you have a chance to build more businesses, help more people and earn more money than just the hospital.

Cities are ordering businesses to stop dumping rain water into storm drains and help get it to the soil. Heres how your veterinary practice can make it happen.

To keep a veterinary practiceand its staffstable, take this advice to heart after the death of the practice owner.

Put unused wall space to good use, driving home your practices logo and philosophy with veterinary clients.

People who’ve made both pretax and after-tax contributions to their workplace retirement plan can now easily separate them when rolling them over to traditional and Roth IRAs, thanks to a recent IRS ruling.

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

There are at least 10 good reasons for dumping a mutual fund or an ETF besides poor performance.

Evaluate your income potential and cost of living in your proposed new state, not only its tax rates. Use estimates specific to your lifestyle instead of general cost-of-living metrics. Consider both one-time and recurring costs that you might incur as a result of the move.

If you're a member of Generation X ”in the range of 35 to 51 years old” and aren't saving enough for retirement, start now.

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.

Large corporations buying veterinary practices get a bad rap. If you dont want to join them, at least take a look at their management style to help your practice run more efficiently.

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!

The bad news? Veterinary debt-to-income levels are on a fast track to disaster. The good news? Our professionwide DIR might improve with these strategies.

Veterinary dentist Dr. Heidi Lobprise cites legal precedent for making the switch to this dental essential.

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.

What should you charge for veterinary therapy laser treatments? How will you market to pet owners? And, PSSST, whats the deal with acupuncture? Company men from two therapy laser manufacturers have answers, and weve got resources.

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

What would you do if pet owners could buy the majority of their pet medications at their local human drug store? New data shows 6 strategies your veterinary colleagues think they'd use to respond.