Society for Pediatric Urgent Care

The Society for Pediatric Urgent Care began as a collaboration among leaders in pediatric urgent care delivery at top children’s hospitals across the country. Due to limited and scattered resources available regarding the delivery of pediatric urgent care, the collaboration began with information sharing about practice management, strategic planning, and provider performance.

Mission:
The Society for Pediatric Urgent Care (SPUC) is the professional society for providers of Pediatric Urgent Care medicine. They strive to establish standards for high-quality, unscheduled pediatric care outside of the emergency department setting in collaboration with the medical home.

They promote the importance of the specialty of pediatric urgent care and set the practice and professional standards using evidence-based guidelines. they facilitate communication among national leaders and providers of pediatric urgent care in order to establish quality standards and national practice benchmarks. They define a career path for pediatric urgent care providers and establish educational opportunities to ensure the continued delivery of high quality care