The Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta-based Emory Healthcare partnered to build a new orthopedics and spine center in Flowery Branch, Ga., the team reports.
What you should know:
1. The clinic will be 29,000 square feet and is the physical manifestation of a long-term partnership between the two entities. The Falcons and Emory partnered in 2018.
2. The clinic will provide northeastern Georgia residents with orthopedic care and will serve as a care facility for Falcons players.
3. The clinic will bear both Falcons and Emory Healthcare branding.
4. The site will also feature the Emory Sports Performance and Research Center, which will work to advance research around common sports medicine maladies. The Falcons and Emory will also provide injury prevention seminars to area high schools.
5. Developers expect to open the building by fall 2020.
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