Renovations
Arrange renovations
- Order office furniture
- Record personal items transferred to business. The tax laws basically say that “any reasonable expense incurred to earn income” can be deducted for tax purposes. Keep track of your expenditures, and save your receipts.
- Obtain virtual phone
- Design and print Patient Intake forms
Clinic renovations under way
Remember, changes will add to your cost. Be gentle with your contractors!
Clinic renovations
- Interview and hire a lab service provider
- Phone line installed
- Develop office procedures
- Patient tracking system
- Hire receptionist (you may want to wait until you start)
- Order initial stock of supplements
Speak to other NDs about this, and learn from others’ mistakes. Most will tell you that when they started out, they sank FAR too much cash into supplements that just ended up expiring on the shelf. Others will say that they bought many supplements for conditions they thought they would be treating but now are not. If you live in the GTA you may want to consider using BMS as a resource at the beginning when volume is low. Also consider that most supplement companies have a very short turn-around time and you can always have supplements directly shipped to your patient. Ideally, you want to purchase a supplement from a company on your credit card, and sell it before you pay for it (i.e., before your credit card bill is due).
