Hospital Design

A husband and wife team took a leasehold space in Simi Valley, Calif., and worked on it until they built a happy ending for Simi Valley Animal Hospital-one with satisfied clients and lots of growth.

If all you've got is a day or two, a super-limited budget, and elbow grease, these ideas are for you.

Opening your door to new profit centers can help take the bite out of remodeling and building expenses.

Brad Rabinowitz, AIA

PDF floor plan of New York Cat Hospital in New York

Closets, cabinets, cubbies-build in the space you need to keep everything from anesthesia drugs to suture material organized and close at hand.

You don?t have to own a facility to make a major impact on your practice?s layout and design.

While you may think all the action takes place inside your hospital, the front of your facility is hard at work speaking on your behalf. The question is, what's it saying? "Come on in"-or "Go away"?

2 architects' ideas + 22 veterinary hospitals = 4 fantastic exam rooms. Now you can learn from the best.

Dr. Ross Clark, Veterinary Economics Practice Management Editor

PDF floor plan of Coal Mine Animal Hospital in Littleton, Colo.

Your approach to housing animals speaks volumes to your clients about how you'll handle all aspects of their pets' care.

These three PDFs will show you how three hospital designers maximized every square inch available to fit everything into an odd or very small shape.

Dan Chapel, AIA, discusses the use of technology in practices entered in the 2007 Hospital Design Competition.

Wishy-washy decisions on purchases and buying equipment you don't need can blow your budget. Save money by avoiding these mistakes.

Ideally, your facility generates interest from passersby. Noses pressed up against the glass is a terrific goal-really the ultimate in curb appeal, I'd say.

Exclusive video clips of the quartet of judging experts sounding off on trends in hospital design.

PDF floor plan of Integrative Pet Care in Chicago

The first in a Web Exclusive series looking at past Hospital Design winners. How have the facilities held up? Who owns them now? What's in store for the future? Find out here.

Dr. Dennis Cloud, Veterinary Economics Editorial Advisory Board member

Just four years after opening a large award-winning facility, these doctors at Upstate Veterinary Specialists in Greenville, S.C., built again-doubling their space. The reason? It made great business sense.

Just four years after opening a large award-winning facility, these doctors at Upstate Veterinary Specialists in Greenville, S.C., built again and doubled their space.

Early planning and advance payments gave this hospital a financial edge. And this thinking has given the owners of South Suburban Animal Hospital in Perrysburg, Ohio, the freedom to focus on medicine in a new way.

Early planning and advance payments gave this hospital a financial edge. And this thinking has given the owners of South Suburban Animal Hospital in Perrysburg, Ohio, the freedom to focus on medicine in a new way.

A humble-sized facility loaded with extras, Atascocita Animal Hospital in Humble, Texas, is the 2007 Veterinary Economics Hospital of the Year.

A humble-sized facility loaded with extras, Atascocita Animal Hospital in Humble, Texas, is the 2007 Veterinary Economics Hospital of the Year.

How one hospital design winner suprised his family with the big news.

After 42 years in the same location, Grady Veterinary Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a fresh face but maintains its old spirit.

After 42 years in the same location, Grady Veterinary Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio, has a fresh face but maintains its old spirit.

Perfect timing, expert advice, and the owner's eye for bargains make the new facility for Animal Emergency & Critical Care of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Va., a source of client satisfaction-and financial success.