MAYO CLINIC

'Mayo Clinic' is an internationally renowned medical practice based in Rochester, Minnesota, USA integrated with hospital facilities and a medical school. The first and largest facilities of Mayo Clinic are also located in Rochester, but it also runs additional hospitals and physician practices in Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition, Mayo Clinic operates a number of smaller clinics and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, known as the "Mayo Health System". Mayo Clinic was ranked the best hospital in the U.S. in 2006, and the second best hospital in the U.S. by ''U.S. News & World Report'' in 2007^[1] and is consistently ranked by other sources as one of the best hospitals in the United States. The Mayo cooperative group model of clinical practice is recognized throughout the world.^[2]

The term "clinic" in the Mayo Clinic's name normally implies a single small outpatient facility. The Mayo Clinic did begin as such, but it is now a comprehensive health care system in its home region of southern Minnesota and neighboring states (the Mayo Health System) and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient care through its hospitals and clinics. It is also a medical research organization of nationwide scope and global reputation, including both schools of graduate education and the medical school, a part of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Historically, the Mayo Clinic was the first educational institution to train physician residents, pioneering the current model of post graduate medical education.
The primary value at the Mayo Clinic is, "The needs of the patient come first." The mission is, "Mayo will provide the best care to every patient every day through integrated clinical practice, education, and research."^[3]

In terms of revenue, Mayo Clinic is the state's second-largest non-profit organization, after health insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association of Minnesota. In 2004, the organization took in US$5.6 billion. In terms of nonprofit funding the Mayo Clinic is the largest in Minnesota, with a 2006 income from donations of 266 million dollars. The education and research activities of the Clinic are funded in part by the net revenues of the clinical practice.
Statistics for 2004:
513,377 unique patients,
2,271,484 total outpatient visits,
130,093 hospital admissions, and
599,002 hospital days of patient care.
Mayo Clinic is significant in the way the medical physicians are paid. In most health care systems, medical doctors are paid based on the number of patients that they see. The more patients seen, the more a doctor gets paid. At Mayo Clinic, medical doctors are paid a salary that is unaffected by patient volume. Salaries are determined instead by the marketplace salaries for physicians in comparable large group practices. This allows the doctors to spend time with their patients and not worry so much about time constraints. Thus, the problem of financial incentives that normally exist for physicians and surgeons to do more procedures and operations is greatly reduced by this system.

Contents

History

Traits

Notable and famous patients

Rochester Buildings

Jacksonville Buildings

Scottsdale Buildings

In pop culture

See also

References

External links

History

Mayo Clinic evolved from the frontier practice of Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his two sons, William James Mayo (1861–1939) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939). Dr. William Worrall Mayo emigrated from Salford, United Kingdom to the United States in 1846 and became a doctor.
Dr. Mayo's two sons began their medical education at their father's side, observing and later by assisting their father on patient visits and with autopsies. "Dr. Will" (as he was known) graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1883 and "Dr. Charlie" graduated from Chicago Medical College of Northwestern University in 1888. After graduation both returned to Rochester and joined their father's practice.
In 1883, an F5 tornado struck Rochester, causing a substantial number of deaths and injuries. Dr. W. W. Mayo worked with nuns from the Sisters of St. Francis to treat the survivors. After this, Mother Alfred Moes and the Drs. Mayo recognized the need for a hospital and joined together to build the 27-bed Saint Marys Hospital which opened in 1889; today, the hospital has 1,157 beds. The Clinic also operates Methodist Hospital in Rochester, as well as hospitals in Jacksonville, Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona.


Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer joined the practice in 1901. Plummer is considered the "architect" of the Mayo Group Practice, and the inventor of many of the systems of group practice which are now universal around the world today in medicine and other fields, such as a shared, individual dossier-style medical record and an interconnecting telephone system.
The Clinic's Plummer Building, designed by Dr. Plummer himself, was the tallest building in Rochester for many years. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
Of note, the Drs. Mayo helped found the medical school at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Later in 1972, the Mayo Clinic began its own medical school in Rochester. ^[4]
Today, Mayo Clinic is led by President and CEO, Denis A. Cortese, MD.
Public trustees include:

★ Robert E. Allen, Former Chair and Chief Executive Officer AT&T, Basking Ridge, N.J.

★ H. Brewster Atwater Jr., Chair and Chief Executive Officer - retired, General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.

★ James L. Barksdale, Barksdale Management Corporation, Ridgeland, Miss.

★ John H. Dasburg, Chair and CEO, ASTAR Air Cargo, Inc., Miami, Fla.

★ A. Dano Davis, Former Chair, Board of Directors, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc., Jacksonville, Fla.

★ Bert A. Getz, Chair, Globe Corporation, Scottsdale, Ariz.

★ Louis L. Gonda, President, Lexington Commercial Holdings, Beverly Hills, Calif.

★ Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., Senior Fellow, JFK School of Government, Cambridge, Mass.

★ Honorable Charles T. Manatt, Manatt, Phelps & PhillipsLos Angeles, Calif., Former Ambassador to the Dominican Republic

★ Patricia E. Mitchell, President and CEO, Public Broadcasting Service, Alexandria, Va.

★ Marilyn Carlson Nelson, Chair and CEO, Carlson Companies, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.

★ Luis G. Nogales, J.D., Managing Partner, Nogales Investors, LLC, Los Angeles, Calif.

★ Ronald L. Olson, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, Los Angeles, Calif.

★ Hugh B. Price of Counsel Piper Rudnick, LLP, New York, N.Y.

★ Frederick W. Smith, Chair and CEO, FedEx Corporation, Memphis, Tenn.

★ Anne M. Tatlock, Chair and CEO, Fiduciary Trust Company International, New York, N.Y.

Traits

Rather than using the typical insurance and patient billing system, Mayo Clinic uses a comprehensive patient financial counseling system. Patients are appraised of costs and possible financial support that could come from their insurance companies. Fees are typically much higher than in a standard practice. However, Mayo Clinic explains on their website, and many patients have been quoted stating that the costs are well-mediated by this financial counseling system and by the benefits of the group practice in reducing their expected future health costs. Patients report non-typical experiences with Mayo Clinic physical exams and treatments, typified by long waiting lists for a first exam, half-day and full-day visits to the clinic, and being seen by two to ten doctors in one visit. Mayo Clinic is known for finding diseases missed by other doctors, sometimes long series of them over years or decades, often saving lives from detecting rare diseases and detecting cancers earlier than other practices would normally detect them.

Notable and famous patients

★ President Franklin D. Roosevelt

★ President Harry S. Truman

★ President Dwight D. Eisenhower

★ President John F. Kennedy

★ President Richard Nixon

★ President Gerald Ford

★ President Ronald Reagan

★ President George H.W. Bush

★ King Hussein of Jordan

★ Jalal Talabani, President of Iraq

★ Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, former president of the United Arab Emirates

★ Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen

★ Patrick J. Kennedy, member of Congress from Rhode Island

★ Evangelist Billy Graham

★ Former Governor / WWE wrestler Jesse Ventura

★ Baseball great Joe DiMaggio

★ Trumpet great Louis Armstrong

★ Late Night Host Johnny Carson

★ Author-Visually Impaired Helen Keller

★ First Lady Barbara Bush

★ Actor Jimmy Stewart

★ Former Honduras Vice President Jaime Rosenthal

★ Beatle George Harrison

★ Folk singer Art Garfunkel

★ Jazz musician Benny Goodman

★ Guitar Player Eddie Van Halen

★ Bono, member of the band U2

★ Author Ernest Hemingway

★ Author Robert Jordan

★ Baseball Great Lou Gehrig

★ Football Hero Walter Payton

★ Larry Brown, Famous NBA Coach

★ Candy Heiress Helen Brach

★ Actor-comic Danny Kaye Star of funny movies "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" - entertained kids in the little theatre at Saint Mary's hospital there, while seeking treatment.

★ Actress Agnes Moorehead "Endora" on Bewitched, died at Mayo Clinic seeking stage 4 cancer treatment 1974.

★ Actor Robert Redford

★ Actors - vaudeville Frank Gumm & Ethel Milne Gumm Parents of Judy Garland, (born in Grand Rapids, MN,) who were treated at Mayo in the 1920's.

★ Actor-comic Bill Cosby

★ First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt

★ Football player and broadcaster Pat Summerall

Rochester Buildings

★ Plummer Building

★ Mayo Building

★ Hilton Building

★ Guggenheim Building

★ Eisenberg Building

★ Charlton Building

★ Colonial Building

★ Gonda Building

★ Siebens Building

★ Harwick Building

★ Baldwin Building

★ Ozmun Building

★ Stabile Building

★ Medical Sciences Building

★ Opus Imaging Research Building (under construction)

★ Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center (Opens 2007)

★ Charter House

★ Foundation House

★ Radiology Research Building

Jacksonville Buildings

★ Davis Building

★ Cannaday Building

★ Mayo Building (renovation to be completed in 2008)

★ St. Luke's Hospital (Belfort Road campus)

★ Joe A. Adams Building (Belfort Road campus)

★ Roger Main Building (Belfort Road campus)

Scottsdale Buildings

★ Mayo Clinic Building

★ Mayo Clinic Hospital

★ Mayo Clinic Specialty Building

★ Mayo Clinic Support Services Building

★ Mayo Clinic Women's Health Internal Medicine Building

★ Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Buildings (Three locations at Arrowhead, Fountain Hills, and Thunderbird)

In pop culture

★ In the television series ''House'', Dr. Wilson mentions that Dr. House would have gotten into Mayo Clinic for a fellowship had he not been expelled for cheating when he was at Johns Hopkins Medical School. Also, Dr. Cameron did her internship at Mayo Clinic.

★ In the movie ''Airplane!'', Mayo Clinic is referenced by showing an office in Mayo Clinic with shelves lined with mayonnaise.

★ In ''The Simpsons'' episode "The Mansion Family", Mr. Burns visits Mayo Clinic for a check-up and is found to have every disease known to medicine - but "in perfect balance".

★ In the TV series ''Grey's Anatomy'', Dr. Ellis Grey, mother of the show's main character, was said to have a distinguished career, with tenures at Mayo Clinic and with the U.N.

★ On the TV show ''M
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★ In Mel Brooks' and Carl Reiner's 2000 Year Old Man, it is stated that the 2000 year old man has been to the Mayo Clinic.

★ In most of Vince Flynn's novels, a native of Minnesota, he references Mayo Clinic in some form.

★ Musical artist Killa Cam, a.k.a. Cam'ron speaks of the Mayo Clinic in his song ''IBS'' off of his album ''Killa Season'

See also

★ Analyze (biomedical software package)

★ ECMO (heart-lung bypass machine)

★ List of hospitals in Minnesota

★ Mayo Clinic Diet - a fad diet that uses the name of Mayo Clinic but otherwise has no connection to it

★ Franciscan Skemp Medical Center - La Crosse, Wisconsin

References

1. "America's Best Hospitals 2007," ''U.S. News & World Report'', Accessed July 15, 2007.
2. "Mayo clinic model of patient care can be taken as reference for Chinese healthcare system reform," ''China View'', April 18, 2007. Accessed June 29, 2007.
3. "Mayo's Mission," ''Mayo Clinic Official Website'', Accessed June 29, 2007.
4. http://www.mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/mms.html

External links

★ Official site of Mayo Clinic

★ Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

★ Mayo Clinic Center for Translational Science Activities (CTSA)

★ Clinical Trials at Mayo Clinic

★ Jobs at Mayo Clinic

★ History of Mayo Clinic