Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is an American non-profit organization based in Rochester, Minnesota and operator of the Mayo Clinic. In addition, Mayo Clinic is also involved in research and training.
Further offices in Jacksonville, Florida, and Scottsdale, Arizona. In addition, part of the Mayo Health System more smaller practices and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin.
History
The origins of Mayo Clinic are in the medical practice of the British immigrant William Worrall Mayo. He had come in the 1860s to Rochester and led there, along with his sons William James and Charles Horace, a community practice. After Rochester had been hit by a tornado in 1883, was initiated by the Sisters of St. Francis, Saint Marys Hospital, which was established in 1889 with a capacity of 27 beds. Through innovative treatments attained the Mayo Clinic, as she was known colloquially, fast fame. The Mayo brothers were always able to further expand their knowledge through treatments and surgeries in subjects that were previously poorly understood.
In order to handle the large number of patients, it required the expansion of the Mayo Clinic. With the recruitment of new and young specialists, a plan was implemented, in which the patients received comprehensive and highly effective medical treatment by the cooperation of the physicians of individual disciplines under one roof. 1901 came Henry Stanley Plummer as a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, whose development it - both medical and administrative terms - drove forward. Indeed, according to the ideas of Plummers look like an ideal treatment building would have the " 1914 Building". In 1928, built also to plans by Plummer Plummer Building was opened.
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 the medical knowledge and develop. This happened out of the conviction that they wanted their income, which they had obtained by the operation of their practice, again benefit the patient. They financed this program with 1.5 million U.S. dollars from their personal assets. In 1964 it was renamed the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine.
On October 8, 1919 William James Mayo and Charles Horace Mayo signed a treaty of a newly formed, non-profit Mayo Properties Association overwrites the assets of the Mayo Clinic. In 1964 it was renamed the Mayo Foundation.
During the Second World War, Mayo Clinic supported the U.S. armed forces in a special way: In addition to research projects in aerospace medicine - for example, an anti- G-suit was developed - all services for one dollar per year were sold to the U.S. Government. 1950 received the biomedical Edward Calvin Kendall and Philip S. Hench for their discoveries in the hormones of the adrenal cortex the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
On 28 May 1986, the official partnership between the Mayo Clinic, the Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital were signed within the Mayo Foundation. With a total of 14,000 employees, 1,800 beds and 81 operating rooms that was how the world's largest medical center clinic. In October 1986, and in June 1987 the Mayo Clinic opened additional offices in Jacksonville and Scottsdale. At the beginning of the 1990s began with the construction of a Mayo Health System, in the smaller medical practices and hospitals in southern Minnesota, northern Iowa and western Wisconsin are members. In 2004, the Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital was completed.
Today, Mayo Clinic employs about 56,000 people. Within the year 2008 528.000 patients were treated.
Mission and Awards
The corporate mission of Mayo Clinic based on the principles of a speech by William James Mayo, which he held before 1910 graduates in Chicago. In this he pointed out that only the welfare of the patient should be top priority. With the model developed by the Mayo Foundation and the Mayo Clinic Model of Care, the quality of care should be ensured in the long term in the sense Mayos. It states that " every patient the best possible treatment to offer at any time " was. This should be " by practicing medicine, education and research can be achieved. " The approach of integrated care to combine an inpatient facility and a clinic and to create interdisciplinary collaboration a holistic konsiliarisches and clinical care offered, became the model of many clinics. In a survey by the U.S. News she was honored in 2006 as the second best hospital in the United States.
Due to the non-commercial context, the profits generated are reinvested and are thus directly or indirectly benefit patients. Also, the payment model of doctors who do not, as usual, depending on the number of treated patients but are paid a flat rate, should provide the patient with individual treatment depending on his needs. Another special feature is that the Mayo Clinic in Rochester offers free patients interpreters for 30 languages.
Organizational structure
Hospitals and medical offices
- Rochester Mayo Clinic medical center
- Saint Marys Hospital ( 1,157 beds)
- Rochester Methodist Hospital ( 794 beds)
- Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital (85 beds)
- Charterhouse Retirement Home ( 243 rooms )
- Mayo Clinic medical center
- Mayo Clinic Hospital (214 beds)
- Mayo Clinic medical center
- Mayo Clinic Hospital (244 beds)
- Hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa and North Western Wisconsin
Training and research system
( Rochester Campus, Campus Jacksonville Campus Scottsdale )
- 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 the good reputation of a large number of national and international personalities from Mayo Clinic has already seek treatment. 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.
Gallery
In the Gonda Building.
The Plummer Building.
Opus Imaging Research Building.
Input of the Gonda Building.