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We Will Help You Own Your Own PetHealth Location!
PetHealth UrgentCare is a privately held company founded by David Hoe. In the past 10 years, David partnered with over twenty veterinarians to establish equity in their own hospitals.
David is an MBA trained entrepreneur with vast experience in GP, multi-specialty and urgent care new hospital development and serves as the founder and Chief Executive Officer.
We are looking for Managing Partners (Medical Directors) to join the PetHealth team in launching additional locations across the country!
Partnership
We are selective on who we partner with, and we are more interested in the quality of you as a person and a veterinarian, than we are about where in the country you live.
If we agree to do this together, you will own up to 30% of the practice we open together.
Operations
David’s Vet Management Incorporated (VMI) company has a team in place that manages the back-end administration (site selection, lease negotiation, construction management, financing, equipment procurement, hiring/recruiting, software development, payroll management, HR support, marketing, analytics, bookkeeping, tax preparation etc).
This means that you get to focus your efforts on what you do best - delivering high quality medical care and great experiences for sick pets.
Benefits
You will receive a generous Pro-Sal (no negative accrual), a Medical Director stipend, benefits including health insurance and 401K, and your percentage of the profits.
Culture
All of David’s hospitals are family owned with his wife, Dr. Lori Hoe, which means that they are not backed by Private Equity.
This allows us to maintain a family-owned culture, and it allows you to establish the culture you want for your hospital.
Why Urgent Care?
It only requires +/- 3,200 SF of leasable space, and it works well in a high-traffic shopping center. This means that finding a suitable location is easy, affordable, and quick to pull off.
Additionally, it’s a highly profitable and underdeveloped niche in the profession with opportunityfor growth. We can charge a premium over GP prices for a sick visit (think 50-100% higher).
It’s easier to staff than a 24/7 emergency hospital, and with high margins we can afford to pay our doctors and our support staff well.
Our structure and quick flow allows us to charge almost as much as an ER, without the staffing headaches that come with a 24/7 operation.
We won’t have to build a client base, which means we will be busy faster than if we opened a general practicetogether.
Who Should Apply?
Applicants will need a minimum of 3 years of experience. ER or Urgent Care experience is a plus, but not required.
You will need to be willing to bet on yourself, by risking some of your own hard-earned money next to some of our hard-earned money.
You will need to be willing to work and staff Urgent Care hours (we commit to being closed on major holidays.)
Preferably, we can build this outside of any restrictive covenants you’ve signed, but challenging a non-compete is something David has experience in and we will consider doing it with you.
You will need to be a good human who treats people with dignity and respect, and be someone who cares about diversity and inclusion, such that others will want to follow you and work hard for you.
You (and a plus one, if desired) will need to travel to Wilmington, DE to see First State Urgent Vet and to meet David.
Why Partner With Us?
David has a proven track record of success partnering with veterinarians to open new hospitals. He is also the one who created the only national mobile specialty medicine company, with over 30 surgeons, internists and cardiologists.
We have experience in the Urgent Care space, and we’ve developed a team that knows how to open and support new Urgent Care locations.
Owning up to 30% of something that is valuable and profitable, is better than owning 100% of something that is not valuable and not profitable. The best way to build wealth as a veterinarian is to own equity in a successful practice. You can do this!
We have corporate vendor relationships with the biggest suppliers and receive significantly better pricing than an owner of a single hospital would.
If you believe in yourself, bet on yourself!
If we choose you to partner with us, and you choose us to partner with you, we will have a lot of fun building something special together that you can finally call your own.
There Are Benefits of Developing Your Own Space.
Sharing space with another business takes communication, compromise and mutual respect to work well. Not having to share someone else’s space makes it easier to operate a business, but it comes with a cost. We will not have limits on hours of operation and services offered (wellness).
There Are Benefits of Sub-leasing From an Existing Facility
Save over $1,000,000 in construction and equipment costs and, potentially, the Brand can be launched within 2-3 months of signing a contract vs. 9-12 months if we have to develop our own space.
This option allow for a smaller down payment and no business debt to take on. This will likely only work if you have a connection to a privately held hospital that would want to receive a significant rent check each month from PetHealth (think $15,000+/month)