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Talk
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Business Titans
RANDY LANGERHANS, DVM
BY ABIGAIL GIEGER
DECEMBER 2016
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
OWNER, FOUNDER, CEO, CFO
and VETERINARIAN
I-20 Animal Hospital
PCT: What is your primary title?
LANGERHANS: Being open and
staffed 24/7, I have to wear many
hats in this growing practice. We
have doctors and staff at the hospital
around-the-clock for our patients and
clients.
PCT: How long have you been in
business?
LANGERHANS: I have been in business at I-20 Animal Hospital six
years since opening in September
2010. Previously, I practiced in west
Fort Worth for 35 years where I
founded Fort Worth Animal Medical
Center – a 24-hour hospital. I have
been practicing veterinary medicine
since 1975 – general medicine and
surgery as well as emergency and
critical care my entire career. I was
one of the founding members of the
Fort Worth Small Animal Emergency
Clinic in 1975 (not in existence
today). I worked there several nights
each week as well as at my “day
job.” I opened my first clinic in 1977,
and merged it with Ridgmar Animal
Hospital in 1982. During the 1980s,
my partners and I owned and operated five veterinary clinics in Tarrant
County. You might say I learned
the lesson of spreading yourself too
thin back then with so many clinics
to manage. After dissolution of our
partnership, I concentrated on my
own practice in west Fort Worth and
transformed it into a 24-hour hospital
50
in 1992. It was the first around-theclock, fully staffed veterinary hospital
in Fort Worth and the third in the D/
FW Metroplex. After selling the practice to a major veterinary corpora-
tion, I spent most of the first decade
of the new millennium practicing
corporate-owned veterinary medicine. Since my wife and I had been
living in Parker County since 2000, I