How to Focus on Saving Pets, Not on Your Practice Financials

You know exactly how to perform a complicated surgical procedure on a cat or a dog. You have had many years of education and experience to do so.

But managing Quickbooks isn’t in your wheelhouse. You’ve most likely never been formally trained in business management, balancing your accounting, entering your invoices, paying your bills; the list goes on.

But QuickBooks isn’t supposed to be your job.

So many veterinary practice owners have told me how they struggle to balance medicine with business.

Here’s the thing – when day-to-day operations suck up your time — you not only risk practice burnout and compassion fatigue, but your practice starts to suffer.

You risk your skills falling behind in veterinarian advancements because you are attending management lectures, not veterinary medical lectures.

How to fix this: hire an experienced professional to manage your practice’s business operations.

More time means you can focus on what you’re trained to do-provide quality, expert veterinary medicine to enhance pets’ lives.

If you already have a manager, can that person support you in all aspects of managing a veterinary practice? Can that manager make decisions that you can support? If not, they need expert training and evaluation, or you need to consider finding a manager who can.

An experienced practice manager will support you in day-to-day operations like:

  • Developing a fee increase policy and instituting consistent fee increases.

  • Dealing with day-to-day emergencies like broken equipment, repairs, staff call-outs, etc.

  • Helping you utilize your Profit and Loss statement to make smart decisions for your practice.

  • As a management team, develop and set achievable goals for the growth of your practice.

You’ve always dreamt of opening your own practice, practicing cutting-edge medicine, and giving clients a place they can rely on for their pets' yearly well exams and when they aren’t feeling well.

Focus on your dream by delegating the business details.

Grow your bottom line and keep the focus on your veterinary care by ensuring you have a trained professional Practice Manager as your partner.

Tell me what’s holding you back from hiring a practice manager to support your practice.

Shirley Lockhart