A full-service pediatric practice is opening this month inside a place Cleveland children already know: Akron Children’s Pediatrics at Broadway Boys & Girls Club, at 6114 Broadway Ave. in Cleveland, will offer same-day sick visits, well checks, comprehensive primary care and integrated behavioral health for patients from birth through age 21 and beyond, Cleveland Magazine reported.
The 3,165-square-foot practice includes six exam rooms and a dedicated space for behavioral health appointments, and it is open to any child or family in the surrounding community — families do not need to be Boys & Girls Club members to make an appointment, Cleveland Magazine reported. Broadway was chosen to launch the partnership because Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio serves a large number of children and families there, in an area with need.
“All families in the area can access healthcare more conveniently and confidently,” Brian Dinger, Akron Children’s vice president of primary care and school health services, told Cleveland Magazine. “We really want to meet the families where they are,” Dinger told Cleveland Magazine, noting that club members are already at the locations for afterschool and summer programs, mentoring, education and athletics…