by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. I was driving home from a clinic earlier this week and heard on the radio that unemployment had reached an all-time low of about 3.7% nationally[1]. The AVMA has confirmed that it’s even lower in veterinary medicine at around [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. Holiday festivities. Family. Friends. Good food. Year-end inventory counts. Annual budgeting. Performance reviews. To some, the above two lines may seem as polarizing as a lump of coal and a shiny new present. Fortunately, for veterinary managers and owners [...]
by Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Vetsource. It takes a village to raise a child. If you’re a practice owner like me, your practice is your child(or at least one of them!). As hospital owners, we’ve honed the skills necessary to run a hospital and assumed [...]
by Carissa Welsh, Susan Bradshaw, and Jason Maag | Blue Heron Consulting Driving veterinary industry revenue is more crucial than ever. In this week’s Vetsource blog post, guest authors from Blue Heron Consulting, including Jason Maag, chief growth officer; Susan Bradshaw, director of HR; and Carissa Welsh, director of hiring services, share strategies to build [...]
By Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Today's Veterinary Business. I sat next to a registered veterinary technician at a recent continuing education meeting. As we chatted, she explained that she was no longer in practice. Her employer informed her that after over a decade of service, [...]
By Stith Keiser | Blue Heron Consulting This article was written for and featured in Today's Veterinary Business. I was speaking at a veterinary conference when an attendee, a midcareer owner of a multidoctor hospital, asked, “If you could identify one factor that separates average or even good hospitals from the great ones, what would [...]