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The rural vet who mentors students every summer, and the placement data nobody has yetThe prep-room bottleneck costing you billable time between casesYour practice burns 400-600 hours a year on prescription admin aloneFourteen Cats Got Dog Plasma. Here's the Number Emergency Vets Need.CVS Just Became Your Pharmacy Competitor, and Your Client Already Has the AppRoo Just Put a Number on Every Relief Shift You Couldn't FillEleven High Schoolers Just Spent Five Weeks in Vet Research Labs. One Learned She Could Skip Surgery.Your CE Hours Might Not Count. Here Is How to Check.The rural vet who mentors students every summer, and the placement data nobody has yetThe prep-room bottleneck costing you billable time between casesYour practice burns 400-600 hours a year on prescription admin aloneFourteen Cats Got Dog Plasma. Here's the Number Emergency Vets Need.CVS Just Became Your Pharmacy Competitor, and Your Client Already Has the AppRoo Just Put a Number on Every Relief Shift You Couldn't FillEleven High Schoolers Just Spent Five Weeks in Vet Research Labs. One Learned She Could Skip Surgery.Your CE Hours Might Not Count. Here Is How to Check.

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The Roll-Up.

Who bought which practice this month, which corporate group is behind it, and what actually changes for the doctor on the floor.

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01 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

Mars, NVA, and IVC Evidensia Are Not the Same Job

All three own thousands of hospitals and call their doctors "associates," but the paycheck, the mentorship, and who owns the practice down the line look nothing alike.

4 min read · Jul 28

02 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

Specialty and ER Went Corporate First. The Math Explains Why

Brakke Consulting estimates corporate groups own roughly 75 percent of specialty and emergency hospitals versus about 25 to 30 percent of general practices as of 2023, a gap that opened years before private equity discovered the neighborhood GP clinic.

4 min read · Jul 28

03 · VeterinaryPracticeNow Desk Research

The "700-800 a year" consolidation number is five years old. Here's what replaced it.

We traced the stat everyone repeats about corporate practice buyouts back to its source, found it stopped being true in 2022, and mapped who is actually buying now.

5 min read · Jul 28