• Young June Choe, Jue Seong Lee, Yoon Lee, Kyu Hyun Park, Young Yoo, Gi-Jung Im, Sung Woo Lee, and Jun Eun Park.
• Department of Pediatrics, Korea University Anam Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
• J. Korean Med. Sci. 2023 Apr 3; 38 (13): e96e96.

AbstractIn mid-2022, as the wave of pediatric coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases escalated in South Korea, a public-private partnership was made to establish a Pediatric COVID-19 Module Clinic (PMC). We describe the utilization of the first prototype children's modular clinic in Korea University Anam Hospital functioning as the COVID-19 PMC. Between August 1 and September 30, 2022, a total of 766 children visited COVID-19 PMC. Daily number of patient visits to the COVID-19 PMC ranged between 10 and 47 in August; and less than 13 patients per day in September 2022. Not only the model provided timely care for the COVID-19 pediatric patients, but it also enabled safe and efficacious care for the non-COVID-19 patients in the main hospital building while minimizing exposure risk to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 transmission. Current description highlights the importance of spatial measures for mitigating in-hospital transmission of COVID-19, in specifically on pediatric care.© 2023 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences.

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