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SPUC 3rd Annual Conference • October 6-8, 2017 • Seattle, Washington

The SPUC 2nd Annual Conference was a Success!

SPUC 2nd Conference

The Second Annual Society for Pediatric Urgent Care Conference was held in Atlanta this September. We had a nearly 50% increase in attendees from the inaugural conference. Physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, public health workers, dentists, and administrators were in attendance for lectures and discussion about pediatric urgent care.

With rapid growth in numbers of patients seeking urgent care as well as the number of urgent care centers available in the US (estimates ranging from 7,100 to 20,000), there was much interest surrounding the operations and business of urgent care. Because most urgent care centers nationwide focus on care of adults, attendees were genuinely concerned about assuring that quality pediatric care is delivered at all urgent care centers as well as ones specially designed for children. For this reason, SPUC members discussed the importance of setting standards for pediatric urgent care.

Clinical presentations at the meeting covered best practices, radiology, sports medicine, allergic reactions, dental emergencies, and pain management. Administrative topics included considerations when launching a new urgent care center as well as ways to deal with burgeoning patient load such as online queuing software, medical scribes, and other aids to facilitating flow in a busy pediatric urgent care. In addition, there were thirteen poster presentations on timely pediatric urgent care topics including Zika preparedness, asthma scoring, a focused respiratory clinic for the busy viral season, and an update on the developing OUCH (Organization for Urgent Care Health) database.

Kudos for Children's Mercy East Urgent Care

The Examiner, a publication in the Kansas City area, recently awarded Children's Mercy East Urgent Care with their Reader's Choice Award for Best Urgent Care. Staff at the site were recognized for their outstanding service combined with the convenience of care their site offers families in the Eastern Jackson County area.

Kudos to Children's Mercy East

We want to hear from you…

If your Pediatric Urgent Care facility has received an award or you would to feature your PUC or an outstanding colleague, let us know. Please send ideas and suggestions for an upcoming SPUC Spotlight or feature to: carolyn@urgentcarepeds.org

Editor
Jennifer Johnson, MD, FAAP

Associate Editors
Peg Orcutt-Tuddenham, DO

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OUCH Survey

The OUCH survey will be open until Dec 16, 2016. This important collection of pediatric urgent care data is vital to benchmarking efforts, and will help us Improve care
to our patients.
Complete the OUCH survey here.

Early survey results were presented at PUCC in New York. Please, if you have not entered your data (small or large) do so as soon as possible.

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