Solutions for Veterinary & Pet Care
Veterinary Clinic Buildouts and Pet Store Rollouts in One System
A pet care portfolio can hold stand-alone animal hospitals, clinics built into a retail store, grooming salons, and daycare or boarding sites, sometimes under one owner. RolloutIQ™ gives the construction team a schedule and an approved budget for every one of those projects, from site selection to opening day.
The Challenge
Where veterinary and pet care buildouts run into trouble
Controlled Substance Storage
Federal rules require Schedule II through V drugs to be kept in a securely locked, substantially constructed cabinet, so the pharmacy room has to be settled in design. Moving it late in the build means tearing out finished millwork and rerouting access control.
Grooming Tubs in a Leased Suite
Each grooming station needs hot water and a drain, plus a hair trap so fur never reaches the building line. In a retail suite that usually means trenching an existing slab, a cost that surfaces late if nobody priced it during site selection.
Odor and Noise Around Boarding
Kennels and daycare rooms need dedicated exhaust and enough sound isolation that barking stays out of the sales floor and the tenant next door. A landlord will often ask to see that detail before approving the plans.
Registering the Premises
Some states license the clinic as well as its veterinarians. California requires every veterinary premises to be registered with its Veterinary Medical Board under a named licensee manager, which puts that application on the critical path next to the certificate of occupancy.
Platform Features
How vet groups and pet retailers run construction in RolloutIQ™
RolloutIQ™ keeps each hospital, in-store clinic, salon, and boarding build as its own project, with the regulatory steps on the same schedule as the construction.
Clinics Inside Existing Stores
A clinic added to a pet store runs as its own project on that store's record, with a separate schedule and budget, so the hospital buildout and the retail refresh stay apart in every report.
A Template for Each Build Type
Set up a schedule template for each kind of build, such as a de novo hospital, an in-store clinic, a grooming salon, or a daycare conversion. Applying one to a project lays out every deliverable with an owner by role, dated from whatever start you pick.
Registrations as Scheduled Deliverables
State premises registration and DEA registration sit on the schedule ahead of the opening date, each owned by a named person. When one runs late, the opening date moves with it.
Equipment Submittals With a Runway Warning
Cut sheets for X-ray units, surgical lights, and grooming tubs go out for review, and each submittal carries its install date and lead time. If review needs more time than the runway leaves, RolloutIQ™ warns you.
Filter the Portfolio by Service
With a services field on the store record (grooming, daycare, clinic), an Analytics grid can sort and export every project by what the location offers.
Access for Specialty Vendors
Give an equipment supplier or kennel fabricator a role on the projects they work, and everyone at that company picks up access to those projects only.
Single Source of Truth
One source of truth for your Veterinary & Pet Care portfolio
As your Veterinary & Pet Care footprint grows across sites, the same store ends up spread across separate spreadsheets and point tools, and the numbers drift apart. RolloutIQ™ keeps one durable record per store from the first deal through opening day, so your Veterinary & Pet Care rollout runs on one set of numbers every team can trust across the whole multi-site portfolio.
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The same RolloutIQ™ system of record that runs the whole program, from deal to grand opening across every store.
By the numbers
Public figures from company filings, trade associations, research firms and federal data on how this industry is building, and none of them are RolloutIQ™ results.
spent on pets in the US in 2025, up 3.7% on the year
APPA, 2026
full-service vet hospitals in Petco's network, which it builds into existing pet care centers
Petco 10-K, 2026
Banfield pet hospitals across the US and Puerto Rico
Banfield, 2026
hospitals Mission Pet Health runs after two consolidators merged
Today's Veterinary Business, 2025
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FAQ
Common questions
Multi-site veterinary groups use RolloutIQ™ to run each new hospital, relocation, and refresh as a project with a critical-path schedule, an approved budget, drawings, submittals, and a punch walk at closeout. The development team works in it, and appointments and medical records stay in your practice management system along with the rest of clinic operations.
Yes. In RolloutIQ™ the clinic buildout runs as its own project on the store's record, started from an in-store clinic template, with its own schedule and budget. The retail team can run a separate refresh project on the same store at the same time, and reports keep the two apart.
RolloutIQ™ tracks each registration as a deliverable on the clinic's schedule, with an owner and a due date tied to the opening, so a late application shows up as schedule risk. Filing with the state board and the DEA stays with your team, and RolloutIQ holds the dates and the documents.
Pet care operators keep a separate RolloutIQ™ schedule template for each format, such as a grooming salon add or a daycare and boarding conversion, alongside their clinic templates. Every project lands in the same portfolio, so a construction director sees hospitals, salons, and boarding sites on one list and can filter by brand or region.
Under DEA regulation 21 CFR 1301.75, controlled substances in Schedules II through V must be stored in a securely locked, substantially constructed cabinet. That shapes the pharmacy room's layout and access control, so veterinary groups settle it in design. RolloutIQ™ keeps the design decision and the drawings on the clinic's record, and it does not certify DEA compliance.
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