Dr. Kasturi Bhadsavle — profile on LinkedIn
Ophthalmology
Co-founder of The Eye Vet. DIBVO. Chair of the Ophthalmology Specialty Council.
For independent practice owners
Partner your practice
You keep the practice you built. You stop carrying it alone. Specialty and emergency depth sits behind you, and the case comes back to you with a plan.
01Fit
Fit
Who this is for
Established, founder-led practices. The kind where the clients follow the doctor.
Every conversation with a practice owner is confidential, and stays that way whether or not anything follows.
This is written for the owner who still practises and intends to keep practising. If you are looking to hand the medicine to somebody else, this is not a fit, and we will say so early.
02The group behind the offer
The group behind the offer
Thirteen businesses, six cities, two countries
Thirteen Specialty Councils. No referral commission anywhere in the group.
Veterinary Holdings International is a group of separate operating companies, each responsible for its own clinical services.
Referral depth comes from Specialty Vet Hospitals, The Eye Vet, The Cancer Vet and The Exotics Vet. Training comes from IIVS. The group’s scope also covers The Dermatology Vet, The Family Vet, The Emergency Vet, The Behaviour Vet, The Veterinary Nursing Company, The Radiology Vet, The Pathology Vet and The Hospice Vet.
India
Mumbai · Pune · Bangalore · Hyderabad · Gurugram
United Arab Emirates
Dubai
03What stays yours
What stays yours
Four things a partnership does not change
Ownership changes. These do not.
The name on the door, the team, the schedule and the standard of care stay exactly where they are.
Operational control
You run the practice. The schedule, the rota, the front desk. None of it moves to a head office.
Clinical control
The standard of care is yours. So is the formulary. In your building, on your case, you are the doctor.
Your team
Your people stay your people, working for you. They gain training and a career ladder no single practice can build alone.
The name on the door
The practice keeps its name and its character. If that would change, you hear it in the first conversation.
04What you gain
What you gain
Depth behind you
The things a single practice cannot build alone.
IIVS, the International Institute of Veterinary Specialization, is the group’s academy, wholly owned. Fourteen disciplines, delivered digitally with clinical rotations through the network.
Specialty backup
The case you would rather not take at five in the evening has somewhere to go. It comes back to you with a plan.
Training your team stays for
Your vets and nurses train through IIVS, the International Institute of Veterinary Specialization. Fourteen disciplines, on a ladder from PG certificate to specialist. People stay where they are still learning.
Shared records and procurement
One clinical record system across the network. You buy on the network’s terms.
The IIVS ladder
Entry
PG certificate
Then
Fellowship
Then
Rotating internship
Then
Residency
Outcome
Specialist
05The bench your referral reaches
The bench your referral reaches
Thirteen Specialty Councils
Each chair sets the medical standard for a discipline and is clinically accountable for every case in it, at every site.
A chair is accountable for the discipline, not for a site. Medical Director appointments are made by peer selection.
A council owns the protocols, the pathways and the credentialing for its discipline. The standard does not change from site to site, and it does not bend to a local commercial argument.
Dr. Noopur Desai — profile on LinkedIn
Oncology
Co-founder of The Cancer Vet. The only US board-certified veterinary radiation oncologist practising in India. Chair of the Oncology Specialty Council.
- 01Ophthalmology
- 02Oncology
- 03Exotics
- 04Emergency and Critical Care
- 05Internal Medicine
- 06Behaviour
- 07Dermatology
- 08Orthopaedics
- 09Dentistry
- 10Cardiology
- 11Neurology
- 12Radiology
- 13Pathology
06No exceptions
No exceptions
What we will never do
Four commitments. They are the same in every partnership.
No exceptions. These four are the same in every partnership, and they are the same for every business inside the group.
- Never Pay or take a referral commission No commission is paid or taken anywhere in the group, in either direction.
- Never Pay clinicians on production Our clinicians are salaried. Nobody here earns more by treating more.
- Never Take over the medicine We resource your standard. We do not overrule it. Tie-breaks follow one order: patient safety, then quality, then finance.
- Never Compete with you for your patient A patient you send in is yours. The referral comes back to you. We do not keep a client you introduced.
Patient safety, then quality, then finance. In that order, in every tie-break.
The founding principle The VHI tie-break rule.
07Process
Process
How a conversation goes
Four steps, at a pace you set. Every conversation is confidential.
You set the pace. Nothing is signed before the outline is in writing and you have read it.
- 01 A first conversation, in confidence One or two of us, and you. You tell us what you built. We tell you whether a partnership fits.
- 02 You look at us Visit the clinics. Talk to the clinicians who lead businesses inside the group, and to their teams.
- 03 We look at the practice We spend time in your building at a pace you set. The method is agreed with you before we start.
- 04 A written outline What stays yours, what the group brings, and how decisions get made. In writing, before anything is signed.
08Start a conversation
Start a confidential conversation
Write to us
Tell us where you practise and what you have built. If it is not a fit, we will say so quickly.
A first conversation is one or two of us, and you. It is confidential, and it stays that way whether or not anything follows.
Partnerships
partnerships@vhi.vet