Mayo Clinic

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Mayo Clinic

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legal form Non-profit organization
founding 1889
Seat Rochester , Minnesota
management Gianrico Farrugia (CEO)
Number of employees 65,000 (1/2020)
sales 12,603,000,000 USD (2018)
Website mayoclinic.org

Mayo Clinic (German Mayo Clinic ) is a US non-profit organization based in Rochester , Minnesota , and operator of the Mayo Clinics . In addition, Mayo Clinic is also engaged in research and training.

There are additional offices in Jacksonville , Florida and Scottsdale , Arizona . In addition, the Mayo Health System also includes other smaller practices and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa , and Wisconsin .

history

The origins of the Mayo Clinic lie in the medical practice of British immigrant William Worrall Mayo . He had come to Rochester in the 1860s and ran a group practice with his sons William James and Charles Horace and served as a military doctor and mayor during the American Civil War . After Rochester was hit by a tornado in 1883, the Saint Marys Hospital was built on the initiative of the sisters of St. Francis , which William Worrall Mayo had built and opened in 1889 with a capacity of 27 beds. The clinic quickly gained fame through innovative treatment methods. The Mayo brothers were able to expand their knowledge through treatments and operations in specialist areas that had previously hardly been researched.

Entrance to the Gonda building in Rochester.

In order to be able to treat the large number of patients, the expansion was necessary. With the recruitment of new and young specialists, a concept was implemented in which the patients received comprehensive and very effective medical treatment under one roof through the cooperation of the doctors in individual specialties. In 1901, Henry Stanley Plummer came to the Mayo Clinic as a doctor , whose development he promoted - both medically and administratively. So, based on Plummer's ideas of what an ideal treatment building should look like, the “1914 Building” was created. The Plummer Building , also built according to Plummer's plans, was opened in 1928 .

In 1915, the Mayo brothers developed the "Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research", a study and research program in collaboration with the University of Minnesota to teach medical knowledge and develop. This was done out of the conviction that they wanted to use the income they had earned by running their practice to benefit the patient again. They funded this program with $ 1.5 million from their personal wealth. In 1964 this was renamed the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine .

On October 8, 1919, William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo signed a contract that transfers the Mayo Clinic assets to a newly formed, non-profit Mayo Properties Association . In 1964 it was renamed the Mayo Foundation .

The Mayo and Gonda building of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester

During the Second World War, Mayo Clinic supported the US armed forces in a special way: In addition to research projects in aviation medicine - for example an anti-G suit was developed - all services were sold to the US government for one dollar a year . In 1950, biomedical scientists Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip S. Hench received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discoveries in the hormones of the adrenal cortex .

On May 28, 1986, the Mayo Clinic , Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital became partnerships within the Mayo Foundation . With a total of 14,000 employees, 1,800 beds and 81 operating theaters, the world's largest medical clinic center was created. In October 1986 and June 1987, Mayo Clinic opened additional offices in Jacksonville and Scottsdale. In the early 1990s, the construction of a Mayo Health System began to bring together smaller medical practices and hospitals in southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and western Wisconsin. In 2004 the Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital was completed.

Mayo Clinic currently employs around 63,000 people. In 2008, 528,000 patients were treated.

Mission statement and awards

The company's mission statement is based on the principles of a speech by William James Mayo, which he gave in 1910 to graduates in Chicago. In this he emphasized that the patient's welfare alone should be the primary goal. With the mission statement created by the Mayo Foundation and the Mayo Clinic Model of Care , the quality of care should be ensured in the long term in the spirit of Mayo. It states that “every patient should be offered the best possible treatment at all times”. This should “be achieved through practicing medicine, training and research.” The approach of integrated care, combining an inpatient facility and a practice clinic and creating a holistic, consultative and clinical care offer through interdisciplinary cooperation, has become the model for numerous clinics. It was named the second best clinic in the United States in a 2006 US News survey .

Due to the non-commercial background, the profits generated are reinvested and thus benefit the patients directly or indirectly. The physicians' payment model, which is not paid according to the number of patients treated as usual, but as a lump sum, should also offer the patient individual treatment according to his needs. Another special feature is that Mayo Clinic in Rochester offers patients free interpreters for 30 languages.

organization structure

Hospitals and medical practices

  • Rochester
    • Mayo Clinic Medical Center
    • Saint Marys Hospital (1,157 beds)
    • Rochester Methodist Hospital (794 beds)
    • Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital (85 beds)
    • Charter House retirement home (243 rooms)
  • Jacksonville
    • Mayo Clinic Medical Center
    • Mayo Clinic Hospital (214 beds)
  • Scottsdale
    • Mayo Clinic Medical Center
    • Mayo Clinic Hospital (244 beds)
  • Mayo Health System
    • Hospitals in Minnesota, Northern Iowa, and Western Wisconsin

Education and research system

(Rochester Campus, Jacksonville Campus, Scottsdale Campus)

  • Mayo Graduate School of Medicine
  • Mayo Graduate School
  • Mayo Medical School
  • Mayo School of Health Sciences
  • Mayo School of Continuing Medical Education

Known patients

Due to its good reputation, a large number of national and international personalities have already been treated in the Mayo Clinic . These include, for example, John F. Kennedy , Gerald Ford , Ronald Reagan , George HW Bush , Billy Graham , George Harrison , Art Garfunkel , Bono , Ernest Hemingway , Robert Jordan , Lou Gehrig , Larry Brown and Oliver Kahn .

Picture gallery

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. < http://history.mayoclinic.org/timelines/history-timeline.php
  2. https://www.mayo.edu/research/faculty/farrugia-gianrico-md/bio-00078130
  3. https://www.mayoclinic.org/about-mayo-clinic
  4. ^ The Best Interest of the Patient
  5. Michael B. Wood: Mayo Foundation at the Turn of the 21st Century: Adapting to Change but Consistent in Values ; 2000 ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mayoclinicproceedings.com
  6. Mayo Clinic: Mayo Clinic Model of Care ; 2002 (PDF; 364 kB)
  7. ("Mayo will provide the best care to every patient every day through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.") Mayoclinic.org - Mayo's Mission
  8. Best Hospitals 2006 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.usnews.com
  9. See also US News and World Report: Best Hospitals Honor Roll. Best Hospitals: # 1 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Retrieved January 18, 2020 .

Coordinates: 44 ° 1 ′ 19.9 "  N , 92 ° 27 ′ 59.8"  W.