This post originally appeared on Trupanion.com. The Business of Healing Pets, Trupanion’s new blog series written by Stith Keiser of Blue Heron Consulting, will take a deep dive into the business side of animal medicine. Look for a new installment each month featuring topics such as business best practices, effective leadership, strategic hiring, and more. [...]
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 not only the financial risk of owning a practice, but also the emotional burden that [...]
Preventive care is a commonly underutilized service veterinarians provide today, and it's one of the most important. So how can we change that? I stepped back to take an overall view of what preventive care encompasses and how important it is for the patients and clients we serve. Click here to read the full article [...]
Through an Editorial Advisory Board position with Veterinarian’s Money Digest, BHC’s Stith Keiser is proud to help advance Vet’s Money Digest’s and BHC’s commitment to positively shaping the lives of practice owners by arming them with the tools and resources to find financial success in their personal and professional lives. Learn More: Business Wire Veterinarian's [...]
Four new officers joined the AAHA Board of Directors at its annual meeting during the 2017 AAHA Yearly Conference in Nashville, Tennessee. Learn More.
BHC’s Stith Keiser will be working with a team of veterinary professionals from Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences under a federal grant to develop strategies to expand rural veterinary services and improve financial and business acumen of rural practice owners. The team will identify best practices of high performance rural [...]
Tracey Jensen, DVM, DABVP (Canine/Feline Practice) will be leading a workshop in May 2017 for specialty practice owners and administrators at the VSPA conference in Vancuever, B.C. Attendees in this session, led by Dr. Jensen, will investigate root causes behind the wage gap and discuss strategies to increase specialty practices’ ability to leverage their staff, [...]
Todays' veterinary medical students deserve exceptional support, especially considering some of the current financial and competitive pressures that exist. And many service sectors within academic veterinary medicine are developing strategies for providing ever greater levels of support. One method for doing that is creating coalitions of like-minded professionals at different institutions to share ideas and [...]