Services

If you are interested in creating your own veterinary hospital, boarding facility, or emergency clinic, Crootof Veterinary Consulting has the experience and connections to make it happen.

As one of the few consultants who specializes in assisting veterinarians with startups, Dr. Mark Crootof has a great deal of experience with finding sources of financing, offering crucial advice on the benefits and drawbacks of different properties, and avoiding common pitfalls and headaches.

A full list of the startup services CVC offers are listed below:

Finances

• Applying for and negotiating loans
• Handling banking issues
• Applying for credit cards
• Selecting insurance

Building and Land

• Determining type of building
• Selecting location
• Negotiating cost
• Handling zoning issues
• Creating floor plan
• Determining use of architectural vs. design/build

Legal Issues

• Determining type of legal entity
• Selecting attorney
• Selecting CPA

Mission Statement

• Creating a Mission Statement, Vision, and Goals for you and your hospital

Equipment

• Selecting equipment
• Negotiating price

Communications

• Selecting phones and phone systems
• Selecting computer hardware and software
• Handling IT issues
• Handling printing

Staffing and HR

• Determining practice size
• Deciding amount and types of benefits
• Making hiring decisions

Pricing

• Determining prices for your services

Marketing

• Creating a marketing campaign

Throughout this project and these tasks, Dr. Mark Crootof will be available for unlimited phone consultations to provide general support and advice. He will also be available for on-site consultations on an as-needed basis.

If you are interested in expanding or renovating your veterinary hospital, boarding facility, or emergency clinic, Crootof Veterinary Consulting has the experience and connections to make it happen.

As one of the few consultants who specializes in assisting veterinarians with expansion and renovation, Dr. Mark Crootof has a great deal of experience with finding sources of financing, offering crucial advice on the benefits and avoiding common pitfalls and headaches.

A full list of the startup services CVC offers are listed below:

Finances

• Applying for and negotiating loans
• Handling banking issues
• Applying for credit cards
• Selecting insurance

Building and Land

• Determining type of building 
• Negotiating cost
• Handling zoning issues
• Creating floor plan
• Determining use of architectural vs. design/build

Legal Issues

• Determining type of legal entity
• Selecting attorney
• Selecting CPA 

Equipment

• Selecting equipment
• Negotiating price

Communications

• Selecting phones and phone systems
• Selecting computer hardware and software
• Handling IT issues
• Handling printing

Throughout this project and these tasks, Dr. Mark Crootof will be available for unlimited phone consultations to provide general support and advice. He will also be available for on-site consultations on an as-needed basis.

Throughout the life of your project and the tasks performed, we will be available for unlimited phone consultations. We will provide general support and advice 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. We will also be available for on-site consultations on an as-needed basis. We are here to help you!

Crootof Veterinary Consulting provides the following other quality services (not limited to the following):

Practice Negotiations

• Assist either buyer or seller

Productivity Analysis

• Site visits
• Staff evaluation
• Staff training
• Business strategies to increase net income

Practice Evaluations

• Determine the fair market value for either buyer or seller

Lectures

• ACHIEVING YOUR DREAM (45 to 60) - A syllabus for starting your own hospital
• START UP HOSPITAL OR PURCHASE AN EXISTING ONE (30 to 45) - Pro’s and con’s of starting a hospital or buying an existing profitable one.
• STARTING A NEW PRACTICE WITH A TWIST (45 to 60) - Doing a start-up hospital with daycare and boarding too
• CONSIDERING A START UP NEW HOSPITAL – BASICS YOU NEED TO KNOW (45 to 60) - Going through all the steps of planning and creating a start up hospital
• LESSONS LEARNED – KEEPING MISTAKES TO A MINIMUM (60 to 75) - How to avoid making the same mistakes that thousands of hospital owners have made.
• BEGINNERS GUIDE FOR THOSE ENTERING A NEW PRACTICE (30 to 45) - Common sense methods to helping with fitting into a new practice
• THREE WAYS TO INCREASE NET PROFIT (45 to 60) - Looking at different ways to raise the net profit, which work and which don’t
• MONEY, QUALITY MEDICINE OR SUPERB SERVICE (45 to 60) - How does one decide which is the most important factor in being successful?
• HOW TO CREATE A BUSINESS PLAN AND YOUR SURVIVAL (45 to 60) - Review of creating a business plan and also looking at Your personal budget.
• 10 MOST COMMON MISTAKES IN VETERINARY PRACTICE (60 to 75) - I review 10 of the major mistakes that most veterinarians make early in their careers.
• GENERATION GAP – COMMUNICATION THAT WORKS (30 to 45) - A primer on how to improve your communication with the significantly older hospitals owners you will be dealing with in your jobs.
• RECESSION PROOF YOUR PRACTICE (45 to 60) - Simple ways to still make money when the economy is crashing
• WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL VETERINARIAN? (30 to 45) - There are many ways to define what is successful, I look at some of them.
•  LESSONS FROM THE WORLD OF PRACTICE (90 to 120) THE GOOD, THE BAD AND OF COURSE, THE UGLY. - After visiting thousands of hospitals, a look back at many of the mistakes that most practices make and how to avoid doing the same thing.
• YOUR FIRST JOB – HOW TO MAKE IT THE RIGHT ONE. (30 to 45) - Ways to maximize your success at accepting the “RIGHT” position for YOU!
•  SPACE – THE ULTIMATE VETERINARY FRONTIER (45 to 60) - or how to squeeze everything we need into a tiny space
• BUILDING A GREEN HOSPITALS (in the Caribbean) (45 to 60) - Ecco construction – the basics.

Crootof Veterinary Consulting can assist you with a boarding facility startup or with the expansion and renovation of your existing boarding facility. Dr. Mark Crootof created one of the first dog and cat luxury boarding facilities in the nation; he has the experience and know-how to design an efficient facility that caters to the needs of pets, clients, and staff alike.

"Mark is like a guide on a new journey. He understands the concerns of his client, the features to focus on and the distractions to ignore. As he has worked with me to open a luxury boarding facility, Mark uses his insider's knowledge, mind for detail and extraordinary patience to develop a facility that is pet and consumer friendly, financially feasible and growth-oriented. He makes me feel like I am his only client!"

Diane Blanchfield Paws at White Cross Farm Manlius, New York