Dr. Jeannie Kenkare is President of Yale New Haven Health Urgent Care and a candidate for the Board of Directors for the Urgent Care Association.

Randy Johansen is the former CEO and current Advisor to the CEO at American Family Care, and a candidate for the Board of Directors at the Urgent Care Association.

Amy Wright is the Director of Urgent Care, Telehealth and Access at Jefferson Health, and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association

Catherine Grant is Founder and CEO of ExperCARE and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association.

April Gillam is the head of Industry Strategy and Consulting at Solv, an urgent care investor, and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association. 

Dr. Cassandra Donnelly is a Regional Medical Director at Wellstreet Urgent Care and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association.

Dr. Alicia Tezel is a pediatrician with Little Spurs Pediatric Urgent Care and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association.

Janae Walsh is a family nurse practitioner at Davam Urgent Care and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association.

Dr. Shelley Janssen is the Chief Medical Officer at Doctors Care in South Carolina, and a candidate for the Board of Directors of the Urgent Care Association.

Join me and UCA's Advocacy Manager, Kristin Rastatter, as we talk with Kelli L'Heureux from Resilient Advocacy in Sacramento, California.  Kelli's firm works with the California Urgent Care Association on their legislative and regulatory e...

Dr. Ellis is the chair of the Government Affairs Committee of the California Urgent Care Association (CalUCA) and leads state efforts to influence legislation and regulation.  Learn how he got started, what the key issues are, what they've...

Dr. Halpert is the co-chair of the Government Affairs Committee of the Northeast Regional Urgent Care Association (NERUCA) and has over a decade of experience influencing state legislation and regulation.  Learn how this got started, meet ...

UCA's Advocacy efforts recently achieved a milestone - inclusion of Urgent Care in the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule publication issued by CMS.  This episode goes into more details about what that means, why it's important, what hap...

This episode goes into the details of what it takes to make things happen in state legislation and regulations, through the experience of Christopher Nugent, MBA, CRA, RT(R)(CT).  Chris has been instrumental in the work of UCA member coali...

Brandon Robertson is the Founder and CEO of UCP Merchant Medicine and Intellivisit Solutions and is a candidate for the Urgent Care Association Board of Directors in 2024.

Stephanie Bond is the Practice Administrator at Intermountain Health and a candidate for the Urgent Care Association Board of Directors in 2024.

Boyd Faust is the Chief Strategy Officer at GoHealth and a candidate for the Urgent Care Association Board of Directors in 2024.

Derek Newell is the Chief Executive Officer of NextCare  and is a candidate for the Urgent Care Association Board of Directors in 2024.

Rachel Sossoman is the President and CEO of Mercy Urgent Care and Occupational Medicine and is a candidate for the Urgent Care Association Board of Directors in 2024.

Dr. Jeff Schor is the founder and former CEO of PM Pediatrics and a candidate for the Board of Directors for the Urgent Care Association in 2024.

Eric Zimmerman leads UCA's lobbying team at McDermott+ in Washington, D.C.  McDermott+ serves the health industry exclusively, and their team of lawyers, physicians, policy professionals, data analysts and Capitol Hill/government agency ve...

Selena and Lou Ellen discuss UCA's advocacy strategy and tactics:  how we got here, what progress we've made, lessons learned and insights gained, and what everyone who works in urgent care (or just loves and believes in it) can be doing t...

UCA Chief Executive Officer Lou Ellen Horwitz provides an update on Urgent Care Advocacy and the next steps, both as an organization and an industry.

Since the founding of the Urgent Care Association, it's been governed by a democratically elected Board of Directors.  So, every year, UCA members elect a new class of directors to the Board.  In the next few episodes of the podcast y...

Since the founding of the Urgent Care Association, it's been governed by a democratically elected Board of Directors.  So, every year, UCA members elect a new class of directors to the Board.  In the next few episodes of the podcast y...