Integrated pediatric urgent care: A perfect fit into patient-centered medical home and meeting the needs of population health and our profession

General Pediatricians have been constrained into a narrower band of primary care practice with the advent of hospitalists, advanced practice professionals and pediatric specific urgent cares. This new patient care structure will require electronic medical records and institutional systems to decrease interfaces and increase integration, thereby allowing a free flow of information that will provide more efficient and safe care. Pediatric specific urgent cares that are integrated will be able to utilize both efficient system level 1 thinking and deeper more thoughtful system level 2 thinking, which will benefit the pediatric patient by decreasing diagnostic errors. If done appropriately, everywhere a pediatric patient contacts the healthcare system, including pediatric specific urgent cares, the patient should be provided a longitudinal, seamless and specific high quality of care that fits the venue they contact.