A 3-bedroom house in Mayfield Heights for Hillcrest stays
If you're coming to Mayfield Heights for treatment at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest and want a whole house rather than a hotel room, we have one home here: Mayfield, a three-bedroom single-family house that sleeps six. One condition shapes everything about booking it, so here it is first: the City of Mayfield Heights requires stays of 30 days or longer. That rules the house out for a two-night consult. It makes it a genuinely good answer for a course of treatment, a recovery, or a caregiver settling in for a season.
Why a month-long minimum turns out to suit this trip
Most people searching for a rental near Hillcrest are planning around a calendar they didn't choose. Chemotherapy cycles, a transplant workup, a surgery with weeks of follow-up appointments, a parent who needs someone in the house afterwards. Those stays run long, and they run longer than anyone first estimates.
The 30-day rule is the city's, not ours, and it filters out weekend traffic. What it leaves is a house set up for people who are living here rather than visiting: laundry on the lower split-level, so you're not hunting for a laundromat between appointments, and a kitchen with the cooking basics already in the drawers. For stays of 30+ nights there's a non-refundable $50 monthly insurance fee, collected separately after booking, which covers the additional insurance requirements that come with extended stays.
How the bedrooms and bathrooms actually work
Three bedrooms, three queen beds, six people. No bunks, no sofa-bed arithmetic, no one drawing the short straw. That matters more than it sounds when siblings are rotating through to take shifts: everyone gets a real bed and a door that closes.
- Upstairs: the three bedrooms and one full bath, with a tub
- Downstairs: a 3/4 bath with a standing shower
- Two living areas: an upstairs living room with Apple TV for AirPlay, and a downstairs room with a Sony smart TV
Two living rooms on separate levels is the detail I'd point to hardest. A patient who needs to sleep at odd hours, or rest in quiet during the day, isn't stuck in a bedroom while everyone else talks over the TV one room away. People spread out. On a long stay, that's the difference between a household and a waiting room.
The house is a split-level, so there are stairs between floors. If stairs are a question for the person you're travelling with, ask us before you book and we'll walk you through the entrances and the layout honestly.
The kitchen is the reason to take a house at all
Yes, and properly: full stove and oven, fridge and freezer, microwave, blender, kettle, coffee maker with coffee to start you off, dishes and cooking basics, and a dining table to eat at together. The blender earns its keep when someone's on soft foods or struggling to eat; so does the freezer, when a neighbour sends casseroles or you batch-cook on a good day for the bad ones.
Eating out near the hospital is easy enough when nobody has the energy to cook. 56 Kitchen sits on Som Center Road just up from the hospital and does a quieter, more considered sort of dinner. Winking Lizard Tavern and The Juicy Seafood are both on Som Center too, and Cork-N-Bottle is right on Mayfield Road. There's a Panera inside Hillcrest itself, which is useful information at eight in the morning when the person you came with is in pre-op.
For anything else, Legacy Village on Cedar Road in Lyndhurst covers it: an open-air centre with The Cheesecake Factory, Crate & Barrel, Arhaus and The Capital Grille among the shops and restaurants. It's the place to go when you need a change of scene and can't face a long drive.
Parking, the EV charger, and the backyard
There's a driveway with plenty of room, plus a detached garage with a Tesla charger. Once you've checked in, the garage opens from inside the house. For anyone driving in from out of state for a month of appointments, charging at home instead of hunting for a public stall mid-treatment is a small daily relief that compounds.
Out back, the yard is fenced, with a patio, outdoor seating, a fire pit and a garden. The garden is where guests on long stays end up: coffee in the morning before a 9am appointment, or an hour outside in the evening when the house has started to feel small. There's also a crib in the house, which quietly answers a question families ask us often, when a young parent is the patient or the one doing the driving.
Pets aren't permitted at this home.
Getting around from the house
Hillcrest sits at the corner of Mayfield and Som Center Roads, just off the Mayfield Road exit of I-271, with the Atrium Medical Office Building connected to the main hospital. That's where physician offices are, along with the outpatient lab, pharmacy and the Patient Access desk where you register for procedures. Worth knowing on day one, because the Atrium is a different door from the one you'd instinctively walk toward.
If your care involves the Cleveland Clinic main campus as well, that's a straightforward run down the interstate from this side of town. Downtown Cleveland is roughly half an hour out, depending on the hour you leave. On a free afternoon, that puts West Side Market, Edgewater Park and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame within reach of an easy day, which is worth remembering when a month in one neighbourhood starts to close in.
Who this house is for, and who should look elsewhere
Book it if you're here for 30 nights or more, you want three real bedrooms, and you'd rather cook than eat out for a month. It suits a patient plus a spouse, with children or siblings cycling through, and it suits two couples sharing the load.
Don't book it for a three-night appointment: the city's minimum won't bend for us, and we'd rather tell you now than after you've planned around it. And if stairs or bathroom access are central to the patient's needs, call us before booking so we can describe exactly what's there instead of you guessing from photographs.
Booking it, and what we do once you're in
Book Mayfield direct with us and there are no platform booking fees, which on a stay measured in weeks rather than nights is not a trivial line. Check-in is contactless by smart lock, so arriving late after a long drive or a long day at the hospital doesn't require meeting anyone. Luggage drop-off is allowed if your timing is awkward.
We've spent more than ten years bringing homes like this one back to life around Cleveland, and we host them ourselves. If something isn't right at nine on a Sunday night, you're messaging the people who own the problem, not a call centre. Message us for anything, call for anything urgent. Guests on extended medical stays tend to need a little more than a lockbox code, and we'd rather you asked.
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