CLEVELAND, Ohio — A pediatric doctor’s office is opening this month inside a place Cleveland children already know by heart: the Boys & Girls Club on Broadway Avenue. Akron Children’s Pediatrics at Broadway Boys & Girls Club, at 6114 Broadway Ave., brings full-service primary care for patients from birth through age 21 and older into the club’s campus, according to Akron Children’s own announcement of the partnership.
The new practice covers 3,165 square feet, with six exam rooms and a dedicated room for behavioral health appointments, Akron Children’s said in its release. Families will be able to get same-day sick visits, well checks and comprehensive pediatric primary care there, with integrated behavioral health services offered in the same building where many children spend their afternoons and summers.
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The office is open to the whole surrounding community, not just club members, Akron Children’s said. Every Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio Broadway Club member can use it, and so can any child or family in the neighborhood — a design meant to put a doctor’s office within walking distance of the families it serves instead of across town.
Brian Dinger, vice president of primary care and school health services at Akron Children’s, told Cleveland Magazine that the goal is to make health care more convenient and approachable for families. Cleveland Magazine reported that the practice opens in November 2026 and that the wider partnership extends to more than 30 Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio locations across Cuyahoga, Lorain, Erie and Summit counties.
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The Broadway opening has been building for most of this year. Akron Children’s announced on Feb. 27, 2026, that it had been named the exclusive pediatric partner for health care services and programming for Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, and that the partnership would include the new primary care office at the Broadway Club. The November opening delivers the brick-and-mortar piece of that announcement.
For Cleveland’s Broadway-Slavic Village area, the practical effect is a shorter trip for routine care. Well visits, sports physicals, vaccinations and the first appointment when a child spikes a fever are the visits families postpone most often when transportation or time off work gets in the way. Putting those visits inside a building families already visit several times a week removes much of that friction.
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The behavioral health room matters for the same reason. Akron Children’s built dedicated space for behavioral health appointments into the floor plan rather than treating those visits as an afterthought, and the health system describes the services as integrated with primary care — so a concern raised at a well check can be followed up in the same practice instead of starting over somewhere else.
The Broadway practice also extends a pattern Akron Children’s has been following across Northeast Ohio: embedding primary care where children already are. The health system operates school-based and community-based offices alongside its Akron and Boardman hospital campuses and dozens of primary and specialty locations, and the Boys & Girls Club partnership applies that same idea to an after-school setting.
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Akron Children’s role at the clubs goes beyond the exam rooms. As the exclusive pediatric partner for Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Ohio, the health system also provides health care services and programming for club members across the organization’s locations, Akron Children’s said in its announcement — so the relationship reaches children at more than 30 club sites, while the Broadway office gives that partnership a clinical home base in Cleveland.
For parents, the details to know are the basics Akron Children’s has published: the office is at 6114 Broadway Ave. in Cleveland, it serves patients ages 0 to 21 and older, and its services run from same-day sick visits to well checks and behavioral health appointments. It is, in other words, a regular pediatrician’s office — just located in a building where hundreds of Cleveland children already spend their afternoons.
What happens next: the Broadway practice opens this November, as Akron Children’s announced. Families in the Broadway neighborhood and Boys & Girls Club members across the four-county partnership can expect the health system’s programming role at club sites to continue alongside the new office, with the Broadway location serving as the partnership’s first full primary care home.