University Hospitals opened a sports medicine clinic on the Cleveland Browns campus in Berea Tuesday, putting advanced imaging and injury care just yards from the team's practice fields and training facilities. Opening ceremonies for the clinic were held Tuesday afternoon, marking the first completed piece of a much larger development rising around the team's headquarters.
The new facility, part of the Haslam Sports Group's multi-use development in Berea, is designed to serve far more than the Browns roster. According to Cleveland.com, the clinic serves Browns players, youth athletes, high school and collegiate competitors, weekend warriors and active adults from across the region, giving players quick access to medical care without leaving the practice facility. Officials said the clinic's on-site MRI and X-ray services will help streamline evaluation, diagnosis and treatment for patients.
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's providers will be on hand to offer specialized care for younger athletes' developing bones, muscles, ligaments and joints, addressing a population with different injury patterns than adult competitors. Dr. James Voos, the Browns' head team physician and the Jack & Mary Herrick Distinguished Chair in Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at University Hospitals, said sports medicine care should make expertise, diagnostics and treatment readily available so clinicians can evaluate injuries quickly, build treatment plans and help athletes safely return to activity.
A 16-Acre Campus Taking Shape Around the Clinic
The clinic is the first finished building inside the CrossCountry Mortgage Campus, a 16-acre mixed-use neighborhood the project's own site describes as blending healthcare, housing, retail, recreation and community uses. The Browns broke ground on the expansion in June 2025, building out from the team's existing 160,000-square-foot, two-story practice and administrative building, according to the Haslam Sports Group.
Haslam Sports Group is working with DiGeronimo Companies on the broader project, which eventually will include a Marriott Barker Hotel, apartments and a community field intended for Berea High School games. The campus naming itself dates to July 2021, when the Browns and CrossCountry Mortgage announced the long-term partnership that put the mortgage company's name on the facility. The full expansion, known separately as District 46, is expected to open in early 2027, per the sports group's announcement with Berea City Schools and the City of Berea.
Cost estimates for the broader District 46 project have varied between reports. The Cleveland mayor's office described it last year as a $150 million project, while a separate report from Audacy's 923 The Fan put the development at more than $200 million, featuring a 7,000-seat community stadium or field alongside the hotel, apartments and University Hospitals sports medicine facility. The discrepancy between those figures has not been resolved.
Modeled on an Existing Institute at Ahuja Medical Center
The new Berea clinic follows the template set by UH's Drusinsky Sports Medicine Institute at UH Ahuja Medical Center, which celebrated its own grand opening in June 2023 as part of a $236 million expansion, according to University Hospitals. That 76,200-square-foot facility packs in rehabilitation rooms, treatment stations, sports clinic rooms, advanced imaging, a therapy pool and an on-site cafe, offering multidisciplinary sports medicine, rehabilitation and performance training to athletes of all ages.
The Ahuja institute already supports more than 70 local high school and college athletic programs, the health system notes, and runs an After the Lights Injury Clinic that gives high school athletes immediate access to sports medicine experts when they're hurt during a Friday night game or practice. It's the same blueprint of serving elite pros and everyday athletes under one roof that UH appears to be extending to Berea.
A Familiar Model From Atlanta
The arrangement echoes a similar partnership in Georgia, where Emory Healthcare and the Atlanta Falcons broke ground on an approximately 29,000-square-foot musculoskeletal and sports medicine clinic at the team's IBM Performance Fields, according to the Atlanta Falcons. That clinic, built after Emory became the Falcons' official team healthcare provider in 2018, was designed to care for both NFL players and the general public, with an open date originally targeted for fall 2020 following 14 to 16 months of construction. A separate Emory Sports Performance and Research Center tied to that project was built to study injury prevention and recovery, particularly in high school and younger athletes.
Back in Berea, officials have not detailed the clinic's square footage, staffing or hours, and it remains unclear whether the early-2027 opening target applies to the sports medicine facility itself or only to the rest of the campus around it. What's confirmed for now is that the clinic is open and running, giving Browns players and area athletes a shared front door to imaging and treatment right next to the team's practice fields.
