2026 UCA Poster Award Winners
This year’s Poster Program showcased innovation, impact and practicality across Urgent Care. Congratulations to our 2026 Poster Award Winners:
- Clinical Excellence
Paul Hansen, MD, FACP, FAAP, FCUCM
Development of an Adult Urgent Care Escalation Index (UCEI) - Operational Excellence
Amy Lomas, MSN, RN‑BC
Streamlining Medical Supply Inventory: A Technological Approach to Cost Reduction - People’s Choice Award
Samantha Harrison, MSN, APRN, FNP‑BC & Makenzie Sangalli, PA‑C
Amplifying Outcomes: Definitive Follow‑Up for Moderate Acuity Urgent Care Conditions
UCA would like to thank all who presented and voted. Your work continues to move Urgent Care forward.
Clinical Posters
Amplifying Continuity: Closing the Loop on Orthopedic Patients in the Urgent Care Ecosystem
Vanessa Gamboa, MSHIA, BSN, RN, Nataly C. Ucros, MBA
Anchoring Bias in the Acute Scrotum: A Case of Testicular Infarction Identified in Urgent Care
Joaquin A. Villegas Inurrigarro, MD, MPH
Barriers to optimal prescribing of antivirals to urgent care patients with mild-tomoderate COVID-19 in the United States
Maria M. Fernandez, Iqra Arham, Domenick Francis, Joshua Coulter, Leila G. Lackey, Brett Hauber, et al.
Bridging the Follow-Up Gap: Scheduled Follow-Ups for High-Risk Infections Reduce Emergency Department Escalations in Urgent Care Patients
Samantha Harrison, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, Makenzie Sangalli, PA-C
Delivering POCT Glucose in Urgent Care
John Weissert, BA, Joshua Russell, MD
Demographic and Clinical Predictors of Rib Fracture, Complication, and Follow-up among Patients with Rib Injuries Presenting to Urgent Care
Rebeka Sultana, MBBS, Kristin Breslin, MPH, Abigail Steiner MS MPH, Douglas B. Richardson, MAS, and Lindsey E. Fish, MD
EMS & Urgent Care Partnership Working Together for Safer, Stronger Patient Care
Bari Berger DNP, MSN-Ed, MBA-HCM, FNP-BC, APRN
Evaluation of Tympanometry Utilization and Impact on Antibiotic Prescribing for Ear Complaints at an Urgent Care Clinic
Rebeka Sultana MBBS, Kristin Breslin MPH, Jeff LaCour MD, Renee Roybal RN, Scott Mann MD, Tammy Wang, MD, Lindsey E. Fish, MD
Elevating Urgent Care Through Quality Science: Optimizing Electronic Order Sets for Pediatric Acute Illness
Andrea Knighton, DO, Jaime Gibson, MSN, APRN-CNP
Idiopathic Fournier’s Gangrene in a Healthy Middle-Aged Male: Staged Debridement and Multicomponent Reconstruction
Abdoul Majid Sires, Mohamed bsher alnajari, Hussein Debsawi, Jihad alahmad, Aladdin etr
Influenza and COVID-19 Antiviral Prescribing and Medication Pick-Up Rates in Urgent Care: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Yonas Woldekiristos, MBBS, Shawni Vaughn, MAS, Abigail Steiner, MS, MPH, Lindsey E. Fish, MD
Multistate Data Acquisition Helping to Guide Machine Learning for Image Identification of Streptococcus in Children Aged 3-17
Patrick Dolan MD FAAP FCUCM, Aleese McKinnon, Raj Shekhar
Quality Matters: Driving Excellence in Radiology through QA
Melissa Rushing, BSMI, CRA, RT(R)
Reducing Unnecessary Emergency Department Transfers Through Clinical Education, Same-Day Ultrasound Access, and Implementation of an Outpatient DVT Pathway in Urgent Care
Ashley Portela DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, Rita Amendola MSN, APRN, Melanie Raffoul, MD, MBA, Lisa Shakun PA-C, MBA, FCUCM & Amelia Nadler DNP, APRN, FNP-C, FCUCM
Sustained Reduction in Antibiotic Utilization in Urgent Care: A System-Wide Stewardship Initiative
Kris Decker, PA-C, Jennifer Vande Loo, PA-C, Christopher Chao, MD
The Essential Role of the Patient-Centered Pelvic Exam: Enhancing Care Quality in Urgent Care
Amy M Quiñones, MSN, APRN, FNP-BC, CNEcl
Operational Posters
Amplifying Access: Building a Sustainable Rabies Vaccine and HRIG Program in Urgent Care
Joaquin A. Villegas Inurrigarro, MD, MPH, Sheterra Jenkins, MSML, MAES, and Naoshia Carroll, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Amplifying Clinical Efficiency: A Multi-Site Evaluation of Bedside Documentation in Urgent Care
Vanessa Gamboa MSHIA, BSN, RN, CMSRN, LSSYB
Enhancing Access Implementation and Lessons Learned from a Hospital Based 24-Hour Urgent Care
Whitney Haugland DNP, RN, AMB-BC, CPEN, NEA-BC
Streamlining Medical Supply Inventory: A Technological Approach to Cost Reduction
Amy Lomas, MSN, RN-BC
Don’t Lose the Patient: Amplifying Access with Automated Outreach for LWBS
Alexander Mangas, DO, FCUCM, Erin Hunt, PA-C, FCUCM