August 1, 2024
Urgent Care Association employees met for three days in Miami to put in the effort and collaboration to solidify projects and plans for the next year and a half of UCA.
The 2025-2026 Strategic Plan, which will detail these plans, will be published later this year.
Three key groups met in Miami last week to strategize for the future of Urgent Care in three district ways: operations, medicine and Advocacy. Official plans are forthcoming, but key takeaways include:
Delegates Council
Great collaboration and vendor input took place with next steps involving groundwork on building up the new Delegates Council. The group, consisting of UCA members from Urgent Care organizations with 5-30 centers focused on grassroots Advocacy, identified leaders in new chapter areas.
Clinical Consortium
Three specific initiatives and deliverables were determined for 2024-2025, from the clinical thought leaders representing CUCM membership and Urgent Care educational leaders. Future projects include:
Strategic Advisory Group
Consisting of CEOs from organizations of 30 or more centers, the group talked about planning for continued growth strategically, to ensure all Urgent Care organizations have the room to succeed.
UCA’s Advocacy efforts recently achieved a CMS victory for Urgent Care: inclusion of Urgent Care in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. In this episode, Eric and Kristin break down the significance of what that means, why it’s important, what happens next and when those efforts might directly impact Urgent Care centers.
NERUCA – North East Regional Urgent Care Association Conference
September 22 – 24, 2024
Mashantucket, CT
SERUCA – Southeast Regional Urgent Care Association Conference
October 24 – 26, 2024
Atlanta, GA
CalUCA – California Urgent Care Association Western Regional Urgent Care Conference
November 7-8, 2024
Irvine, CA
CUCM President Cesar Mora Jaramillo, MD, FAAFP, FCUCM and Urgent Caring Editor-in-Chief Tracey Davidoff, MD, FCUCM are seeking contributions for the Q3 and Q4 editions of Urgent Caring. They are seeking any content relevant to the practice of Urgent Care medicine (interesting case studies, diagnosis or treatment of common or uncommon presentations, clinical successes, best practices, etc.).
Please submit your content to the CUCM website. All case reports should follow the CARES format, which can be found here. The next deadline is August 15 for the Q3 edition and November 15 for the Q4 edition. Urgent Caring is a peer reviewed publication and content is CME eligible with updates from both within and outside CUCM.
Questions? Contact Laurel Stoimenoff at lstoimenoff@urgentcareassociation.org. We hope to hear from you—the best content comes from Urgent Care clinical leaders and those delivering the care.
Urgent Updates are curated highlights of guidelines, reviewed by (and some directly coming from) Urgent Care physicians. These highlights represent the actual intent of these articles and how they relate to the practice of Urgent Care medicine.
Join Experity’s Phyllis Dobberstein and Heather Rothermel for an engaging webinar that addresses billing and credentialing obstacles. This session will provide you with practical solutions and actionable strategies to elevate your center’s performance.
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Join us for the third and final live session as we highlight UCA’s 2024 award recipients and important topics during the 2024 UCA Award Winner Webinar Series. The series will be available as an on-demand download 48 hours after live webinar.
August 6 – Leadership: What It Takes to Make a Difference presented by Chris Nugent, MBA, CRA, RT(R)(CT)
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