Predicting 25 years is no easy task-long term assessments have variable criteria such as sustainability, strategic relevance, and financial performance. In Veterinary Medicine and Practice 25 Years in the Future and Economic Steps to Get there, Tom Catanzaro and Terry Hall condense facts from recent studies, identify the social and technological long-term trends to watch, and supply an economic roadmap that will help veterinary professionals steer their practices through the next quarter of a century.

Veterinary Medicine and Practice: 25 Years in the Future and the Economic Steps to Get There

Science & Math

Catanzaro, Thomas E.

Hall, Terry H.

Agricultural Sciences

Wiley/Blackwell

Most veterinary practitioners have an innate love of animals, a desire to alleviate suffering, and compassion for the people they serve when delivering health care. To be successful, practitioners must convey these traits to their clients sincerely and consistently. In this book, Dr. Catanzaro explains how practitioners can promote the human-animal bond, a growing area of emphasis, and why it will make their practices more profitable. The extensive appendices provide practitioners with many useful tools that will help them foster the human-animal bond as they work with clients.

Promoting the Human-Animal Bond in Veterinary Practice

Written to follow Dr Catanzaro's Building the Successful Veterinary Practice series this book relies on the team approach to veterinary healthcare. The 'how to' format, complete with examples and concepts, is a necessary primer for veterinarians in today's competitive society. The author's active clinicians, offer options and alternatives to old habits in the form of workable solutions. The solutions are then tailored to specific practices and their unique needs.

Veterinary Healthcare Services: Options in Delivery

Business & Money

Weinstein, Peter

Haig, Thom

Leake, Judi

Howell, Heather

Management & Leadership

A follow-up to the successful and sensible Building the Successful Veterinary Practice series, this new volume provides the business know-how needed to make today's emerging practices tomorrow's established practices. Author and consultant Thomas Catanzaro reveals his secret to building a business for the future: a strong succession plan. This book will help readers incorporate a defined leadership structure; address the internal and external legal issues of a practice; and understand the economic factors of owning and selling a practice.

Beyond the Successful Veterinary Practice: Succession Planning & Other Legal Issues

Deegen, Robert W.

Guiducci, Edward J.

The second volume of Building the Successful Veterinary Practice shows how to: apply the leadership skills and tools presented in Volume 1 to the veterinary practice of today and tomorrow; integrate leadership into new programs and net producing procedures; create and maintain a successful veterinary practice that will prosper well into the new century. 
Using the methods explained in this book, veterinarians can: ensure quality health care delivery; provide adequate remuneration to provider, staff, and facility; and establish a clear community role and market niche. An extensive appendix provides fiscal tracking systems, nine types of forms and other net enhancing materials which may be used in total or adapted to specific practice needs.

Building the Successful Veterinary Practice, Vol. 2: Programs and Procedures

In this cutting-edge text, Thomas Catanzaro brings his considerable experience and training to bear on management in the veterinary profession. He discusses changes emerging in the twenty-first century veterinary medical practice and the alterations they demand in management style and practice organization. Besides the techniques and concepts for developing new programs and procedures, Dr. Catanzaro provides real-life applications for immediate use by veterinary practitioners around the world. Veterinary Management in Transition specifically addresses the following areas: 
* Are you and your practice ready for change?; * What is governance?; * Why is it needed?; * How does it work?; * In group practices, how can the leadership role be shared?; * What issues do you need to consider when hiring a group administrator, and how do you train him or her?; * How can the transition from traditional, single-doctor forms of management to new, more effective forms be made? A self-assessment at the end of each chapter helps readers understand their own strengths and weaknesses. Generous appendixes offer stand-alone reviews of the concepts presented in the text as well as model administrative action plans for staff development and change management.

Veterinary Management in Transition: Preparing for the Twenty-First Century

This is the first volume of a multi-volume set of veterinary practice leadership and management resources. Veterinarians will discover the concepts and tools that can enable them to help the staff in their practices develop into a team, one that eagerly responds to changes in the marketplace and is committed to improvement. 
Catanzaro has written in pragmatic terms about: the attitudes that promote a sense of teamwork; evaluating and developing your own leadership skills; the structure of a successful group; communication techniques; and Continuous Quality Improvement--all with an eye on the special circumstances and dynamics within veterinary practices. Appendices include a glossary of terms, leadership calibration instruments, summary leadership skill sessions, and suggestions for additional reading. The next volume in the series will address key programs to enhance net income.

Building the Successful Veterinary Practice, Leadership Tools

The final volume of Catanzaro's benchmark series on building a veterinary practice, this is also the series' keystone, providing the ways and means to keep a veterinary business going and growing under all sorts of circumstances. Creativity is the key to healthy change, and it is also the key to Catanzaro's approach as he helps the vet and clinic staff to "colour outside the lines"--to think in new ways that will enhance procedures and employee morale in any practice. 
A noted veterinary practice management consultant, Catanzaro draws on his own extensive experience and that of other consultants, writers, and speakers to bring together the essential tools for individual brainstorming and organisational restructuring. Liberally illustrated with examples, tables, chats, and forms, and full of exercises for stimulating creativity, this volume focuses on hiring strategies and job redesign, establishing leadership and building a client base, learning and teaching new techniques, and, last but not least, money matters. It offers advice and insights on a wide range of particulars, from marketing gimmicks to computerised medical records to fiscal shelters. Culminating and capping an indispensable series, it will be essential to the ongoing success of any veterinary practice.

Building the Successful Veterinary Practice, Vol. 3: Innovation and Creativity

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