Talk:Mayo Clinic/Archive 1

Famous patients
Why the list of famous patients? I'd prefer to see a list of famous doctors, trainees, or medical students. Evry top 20 hospital could boast of its many famous patients: everyone gets sick...


 * I agree somewhat, although to be fair Mayo is known for treating a disproportionate amount of the worlds rich and famous, in fact its probably the only city that has a downtown almost entirely devoted to serving these patients. Rochester itself has a large temporary population that seeks care at the clinic (more than the cities resident population). Gtadoc 04:41, 19 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I think the list belongs in a "History of Mayo Clinic" sibling article rather than on the main page.--Daveswagon 16:21, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Mayo Clinic diet
ehhhh.. Why is there a link to the 'mayo clinic diet' here? It's something which has no connection(bar the obvious one)to the Mayo Clinic. I've deleted it before but it was put back.

Helminski 02:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)Well, speaking as the Mayo Clinic's former trademark attorney, I think it's important to keep the mention in as long as it's made clear that the diet is bogus. Even Mayo's own website mentions it because the supposed diet keeps circulating all over the place and refuses to die. Many people have heard of this diet, and should be reminded that it's a fraud.


 * It's not Wikipedia's purpose to defend an organization's branding scheme or expose fraud.--Daveswagon 16:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)


 * Perhaps not, but it is noteworthy. That said, the best way to dispel the myth might be to not mention it at all.  My only concern (knowing nothing specific about the diet) being that people would potentially put their health at risk following something they believe to be backed by legitimate health professionals. Gtadoc 20:23, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Copyrighted source
Ugh, this text appears to have been lifted from a copyrighted source (just a fragment, though).


 * The above comment is old, from May 27, 2003 &mdash;Mulad (talk) 20:28, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

"World renowned"
I suspect that "world renowned" is a bit of an overstatement. "Renowned in the United States" would probably be more accurate. David.Monniaux 11:43, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC)


 * I disagree. People fly from all over the world just to go to the Mayo Clinic. -- DarkNight 15:47, 2005 Jan 3 (UTC)


 * True, especially before 9/11 folks were coming from all over, and especially the Mideast.


 * I agree, world renowned is accurate, in fact the international airport at Rochester existed so that people, particularly from the ME, could fly directly there to get medical care at Mayo. In my personal experience its also recognized by name in many foreign countries, some I didn't expect (India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Cambodia from my own experience).  Gtadoc 18:06, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

Also, I removed a reference to Johns Hopkins, seemed a bit tacky to have them advertising there; also interesting they don't want any mention of Mayo on their page and for same reason I don't think it needs to be listed here.

The concept of taking a patient into a clinic and doing a full assessment including diagnostic testing that was perhaps outside of the scope of the acute illness then gather in a grand round setting and discussing in a team fashion an approach to further diagnosis and then treatment certainly was a unique Mayo approach. In an era of cost saving this remains a very unusual approach to patient care. Clinical evidence that a patient is better served by this approach is indirect but it is non-the less a gratifying experience for both Doctor and Patient. This is the 'world-renowned" reference. If you could afford it this was a beacon of hope to the sick and has been a reason the world "beat a path" to tiny Rochester Mn. I do not see any PR in this really as certainly a PR department would have generated some of this idea in this rather bland article. Perhaps this is why Wiki is not ever going to be a great encyclopedia. To write well you must bring some fact and opinion that is based on consensus. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.208.129 (talk) 21:03, 19 October 2008 (UTC)


 * The phrase "world-renowned" appears in Wikipedia's examples of peacock terms. SlowJog (talk) 01:40, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Changing "world renowned" to "internationally renowned" doesn't fix the problem. The same principle applies, even if the new term isn't in the list of peacock terms. The list is  not intended to be exhaustive. SlowJog (talk) 23:25, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Carillon
They also have a 56-bell carillon in the Plummer bldg. (This page says 23 but it may simply be decades out of date; there seems to have been an expansion.) The bells were made by Petit & Fritsen and Gillett & Johnston. Kwantus 02:55, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

infobox
If anyone has time can you put the information about how many patients, how much grant money, etc. etc. in an info box? Might be a better way to list it than in the article. If not I'll try to figure out how to do it. Gtadoc 17:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Pop culture section
Unencyclopedic and unworthy of an article about one of the world's best hospitals. I don't understand why these trivial sections show up so often. MoodyGroove 00:40, 29 June 2007 (UTC)MoodyGroove

Entered by the Mayo's P.R. Dept?
The Mayo Clinic entry is so sycophantic that it almost seems as though it has been written by the Mayo Clinic's public relations department. In the interests of the Wiki dictum that articles should be neutral maybe a few references to a some of the Mayo's peccadillos should be included? WikiUserisme (talk) 19:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

You're right. –


 * Provide reliable sources which detail the criticisms, and you'll be fine.  Corvus cornix  talk  23:12, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

So far as Wikipedia is concerned, apparently the Wall Street Journal and the U.S. Dept of Justice aren't "reliable sources." I posted links to a WSJ article about a Mayo Clinic patent and a U.S. Dept. of Justice account where the Mayo was fined $6.5 million for misapplying a taxpayer grant. They were edited out. Seems like a double standard. Is the Mayo Clinic a Wiki benefactor? —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiUserisme (talk • contribs) 13:44, 13 May 2008 (UTC)


 * You didn't add the links to those sources as a reasonable edit to the article, you added a polemic which had to be removed. If you want to create a section on Criticisms, list the criticisms in an encyclopedic manner, and add those sources that way, that would be fine.   Corvus cornix  talk  16:02, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

I'm trying to remove some of the "PRness" the article has at the moment. BJ Talk 22:56, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, BJ. You did a good job. It'll be interesting to see if the Mayo Clinic P.R. people (I read that the Mayo calls them "The Dept of External Affairs")try and sneak some puffery back into it. Thanks again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiUserisme (talk • contribs) 17:41, 17 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't want to create a criticism section.* And I didn't want to criticise the Mayo Clinic. Anyone with access to a computer can find out for themselves that, just like everyone else and every other organisation on the planet, the Mayo Clinic has skeletons in its closets. It is more that I wanted to criticise Wikipedia for allowing what I thought was a just a syrupy sales puff piece for the Mayo Clinic rather than a scholarly encyclopedic statement. It was so blatant that IMO it was written by some Mayo Clinic P.R. hack. A sort of amalgam of their sales brochures.


 * If you start having criticism sections couldn't it lead to anyone with an axe to grind about the subject of any entry having a field day? I'd be interested in the opinions of others as to whether or not they think your suggestion about a criticism section has merit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by WikiUserisme (talk • contribs) 17:32, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't think a criticism section is needed at this time, Mayo doesn't really receive enough criticism that would merit it. BJ Talk 17:57, 17 May 2008 (UTC)


 * If someone has an ax to grind or not, they need to use NPOV language, and cite references. SlowJog (talk) 01:58, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

I seldom come to the talk page of a WP article, but I had to this time to check and see if it had been mentioned how absurdly non-neutral this article is. Reading it feels like reading an advertisement for Mayo -- it's not at all the normal WP feeling. Bragging, comparative words like "more than" are severely overused. Rankings are severely over-emphasized. I'm really not that surprised, given how many times I've visited Mayo Clinic's articles and been graced with the numerous, large advertisements interspersed with the medical information I'm looking for. As my opinion of this institution declines, I'm becoming more and more interested in those 'skeletons in the closet' that someone else mentioned. Think I'll head off now to search for them and balance out the amount of glittered hype that I've just read! Really hope some folks can beat this back into a neutral article. And ''Mayo Clinic people -- please, back off and let others fix this. You're hurting your credibility.'' 2601:E:CC80:118:7C9C:8F34:C4E6:1D3D (talk) 11:08, 13 March 2015 (UTC)

I'm just a regular guy but what the hell. This article seems straight from the PR department of Mayo. There's actually an entire chapter on "Core Values". This really reads more like an inspirational internal memo than it does a wikipedia entry. Shameful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.61.127 (talk) 22:56, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
 * I trimed about 300 words that are not needed. Editors who want to add good RS from non-Mayo sources are invited to do so. Rjensen (talk) 23:10, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Split?
Mayo owns a dizzying amount of property and this article doesn't (and can't) properly describe them all. Right now the article seems to focus on Rochester and doesn't say much of anything about the actual hospitals. I think this article should cover Mayo the foundation and 3 article should be broken off for the three hospitals. (Mayo Building being one?) Comments? BJ Talk 23:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Maybe there should be an article on Mayo Health System which addresses all of those other sites. Right now it's just a redirect to here.   Corvus cornix  talk  17:38, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure about the clinics but aren't hospitals "notable by default"? BJ Talk 18:41, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * There should be a separate article on the Mayo Clinic Health System. These hospitals are run by Mayo Clinic, but, if you go to their web site's list of locations, Rochester, Minnesota isn't shown. It is reasonable to conclude they are separate but related entities. And, my understanding is, yes, hospitals are notable by default. 199.86.16.239 (talk) 03:01, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Mayo did not own or operate a hospital until the mid 1980's. St. Mary's and the Methodist Hospital were operated independent of the Clinic. It started out as a private medical practice in the 1860's, and evolved into a not-for-profit Clinic in 1919. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.56.99 (talk) 01:50, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Even though they weren't 'owned' by Mayo, they were run by Mayo, and Mayo physicians exclusively practiced there and at the clinic, so the difference was really in named only. ChillyMD (talk) 01:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
 * But, they were separate entities, each with their own histories. If Mayo's history is to be expanded in one article, there could be three parallel histories. On that basis, assuming all three will have a significantly sized history section in Wikipedia, I favor three articles. By the way, the "integration agreement" was signed May 28, 1986, according to Mayo's website. Prior to that, Mayo regards the relationship as "collaborative". SlowJog (talk) 05:19, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Building Category
There were too many red-links on the list of buildings previously list on this article. Should there be a category for the existing building pages, since some will have no links to them? Say, Category:Mayo Clinic Buildings?Mangledorf (talk) 13:26, 17 July 2008 (UTC)


 * My feeling is that most individual articles on the buildings would fail to meet notability guidelines, and never grow beyond stub class. I would favor an article on the Mayo Campus, with a a section for each of the more important buildings. SlowJog (talk) 01:17, 25 November 2008 (UTC)


 * Maybe three articles: One each for Rochester, Scottsdale, and Jacksonville.  On the other hand, Saint Marys in Rochester might deserve its own article. SlowJog (talk) 17:58, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Version 0.7
This topic would definitely be important enough, but the article right now is very weak. Please renominate for the next release once it reaches B-Class or so, and it'll probably be included. Walkerma (talk) 03:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)


 * The current article is very weak. Its a shame, I remember one time (not sure when) this article was long and rather good.ChillyMD (talk) 01:32, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Yes, surprisingly weak for such a prominent institution. If there was a better article, maybe it could be found, and reverted back to that. SlowJog (talk) 00:38, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Notable people who have visited the clinic
Is there a list of these people anywhere? Should one be included in the article? 67.135.49.116 (talk) 19:39, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * That would be an exceedingly long list and probably not useful. A great many notable people visit every year.
 * A list of notable staff of the clinic, on the other hand, might be manageable. Jonathunder (talk) 21:39, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
 * There probably are or have been many people employed at Mayo who are or were prominent in their field. They may have received recognition such as a Nobel Prize. I think such a list would be worthwhile. SlowJog (talk) 18:06, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

founding - role of Catholic nuns
I am curious why the Sisters of St Francis aren't mentioned - they were the ones who suggested a hospital to Dr Mayo in the first place, and were among the first staffers. I've read this elsewhere, and the MC website itself mentions it. Was this considered and left out for a no-doubt good reason? http://www.mayoclinic.org/tradition-heritage/ and links. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 02:42, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Mayo Clinic's dark underside
I see a sterile page here, yet there's been some issues with fraud coming from the Mayo Foundation, including an ongoing case:   and going as far back as 2005:. Torinir ( Ding my phone   My support calls   E-Support Options  ) 16:49, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

Disclosure
I am an employee of the Mayo Clinic. The quality of this article is very low, so I have undertaken a well cited and non-biased update to the article. I'm adding historical information, as well as some information about the institution. I am personally staying out of the "need" that some claim say is necessary to mention things such as fraud etc. This is a DISCLOSURE for a possible Conflict of Interest (COI); however, I'm specifically updating the factual pieces of the Clinic's history and current status.--BrandonBigheart (talk) 18:26, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for saying that. I will be happy to help out with the article. This page is on my watchlist, but if anyone wants to raise an issue please don't hesitate to contact me at my talk page. Thanks. Jesanj (talk) 18:44, 24 October 2011 (UTC)

The "dirt" on Mayo Clinic
Look, I understand Mayo Clinic is considered one of the world's best medical centers, but I think we ought to take a more journalistic approach to things: find the nitty gritty, the undesirable, the "dirt"... Mayo Clinic is like that perfect princessy type girl. You know that there's a darker side to it all, but you just don't hear about it ;) Or at least you hope there is... I Already see a few links to law suits etc, I think we should give them greater notability 134.148.10.13 (talk) 22:10, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Error/Joke in "Contributions" on Mayo Clinic page?
Contribution #16 states that Mayo Clinic "Proved the link between sexual intercourse and pregnancy"! Is this a joke? If not, what is the basis for this astonishing breakthrough? Radagast44 (talk) 22:46, 10 March 2017 (UTC)

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Medical kidnapping at Mayo Clinic
Could you write about this shocking story: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/13/health/mayo-clinic-escape-1-eprise/index.html 91.83.110.18 (talk) 23:06, 13 August 2018 (UTC)

Agreed, this should be added. I already added an entry myself but it was quickly reverted by Zefr citing WP:NOTNEWS and WP:RECENTISM. While there may be some merit (for the time being) in WP:RECENTISM I would argue against WP:NOTNEWS based on the fact that it's not a single article and is an incident that doesn't involve only the Mayo Clinic itself; the Sanford Medical Center in Sioux Falls where she was subsequently admitted have now weighed in publicly, challenging the Mayo specialists. It's also getting extensive coverage on TV with additional family interviews etc and now other patients are also coming forward with allegations against the Mayo group (e.g. the Boston Globe article). This isn't exactly some little corner page article in a local newspaper. 203.214.35.208 (talk) 23:45, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Improving citations
Hello! My name is Audrey, and I am here on behalf of my employer, Mayo Clinic. While the banner across the top of this article mentioning "multiple issues" including the need for "additional citations for verification" and the excessive reliance on "sources too closely associated with the subject" has been removed, I compiled many third-party sources to help with the article's sourcing issues. Here are additional resources to verify portions of the article tagged "citation needed". For details where no independent sources could be found, it might be best to delete the information.

Citations needed

History


 * "As the private practice grew, it required additional space. In 1914, the partners planned, designed and built a new clinic building"


 * Source: Lens on history: The first Mayo Clinic, The Post Bulletin


 * "Ellerbe Architects are the architect of record for the 1914 Mayo "Red" building …"


 * Source: Re-Design Re-Build, Twin Cities Business


 * ... as well as for the 1922 Mayo Institute of Experimental Medicine, the 1927 Plummer building, the 1954 Mayo Clinic building, and the 2002 Gonda building. In 1914, and under the guidance of Henry Plummer, the new building allowed the integrated group medical practice concept to be fully expressed.


 * Can this be deleted due to lack of sources?


 * "... to design and fabricate many of the building systems innovations like the steam sterilization rooms, metal surgical tools and equipment, pneumatic tube system, knee operated sinks, and a state of the art HVAC system."


 * Sources:


 * Little known characters in America: Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer, Journal Gazette/Times-Courier


 * Mayo Clinic names $1B tech project after big-thinking doc, Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal


 * "These and other aseptic procedures helped bring the overall patient infection rates down"


 * Source: Little known characters in America: Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer, Journal Gazette/Times-Courier


 * "In 1928, the Plummer Building was completed with considerable input from Clinic staff, and again under the guidance of Henry Plummer. Frederic Maass again worked closely with Plummer and staff on system design. After this project was complete he

assumed the position as the "Chief Engineer" for the Clinic."


 * Source: National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, National Park Service


 * Working hand-in-hand with physicians, scientists and other Mayo Clinic staff, the engineering department developed unique medical devices and systems, many designed to meet the needs of individual patients


 * Note: This sentence is not specific. Can it be deleted due to lack of sourcing?


 * "At the time of its completion, the Plummer Building was the tallest building in Minnesota and remained so until the Foshay Tower was finished in Minneapolis in 1929."


 * Source: Lego Land in Rochester? Not quite, but here's one amazing structure, The Post-Bulletin


 * "It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969 ... "


 * Source: Plummer Building, Emporis


 * Note: ... "and has recently undergone a complete restoration of its bell tower" is unsourced and seems like it is too minor to be included here. Can it be deleted due to the lack of sourcing?


 * "The historic 1914 "Red" Mayo Clinic building, a National Landmark listed on the National Register, was demolished by the Clinic in the 1980s to make way for the Hammel, Green and Abrahamson-designed Siebens building"


 * Source: Lens on history: The first Mayo Clinic, The Post Bulletin

Core operations


 * "This practice is thought to decrease the monetary motivation to see patients in large numbers and increase the incentive to spend more time with individuals"


 * Source: A new way to pay physicians, The New York Times (used in preceding sentence)


 * "Salaries are determined by the marketplace salaries for physicians in comparable large group practices"


 * Can this sentence be cut due to lack of available sourcing?

With my aforementioned conflict of interest, I am here to see if other editors can make the above changes.

Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 18:35, 14 March 2019 (UTC)

Reply 15-APR-2019
Regards, Spintendo  20:55, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The COI editor's use of the   filter has rendered the text in the proposal unreadable. Kindly omit the use of this filter. When ready to proceed, please change the  template's answer parameter to read from yes to no. Thank you!


 * User:Spintendo: I deleted the "nowiki" filter as you requested. My initial thought was that the wikitext would make it easy for editors to review add the citations, but I'm happy to do it this way, too. Let me know if this format works better for you.


 * Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 19:45, 16 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your help with that, it's much appreciated. I'll review this shortly. Spintendo  00:20, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Reply 16-APR-2019
Below you will see where proposals from your request have been quoted with reviewer decisions and feedback inserted underneath, either accepting, declining or otherwise commenting upon your proposal(s). Please read the enclosed notes within the proposal review section below for information on each request. Please note: any sections for which clarification has been requested ought to be provided in a newer edit request placed below these reply posts. Spintendo 01:40, 17 April 2019 (UTC)


 * User:Spintendo: Thank you!


 * You asked for clarification on one point, writing: "It is unclear what is meant by the direction "Legoland in Rochester?" Directions for the placement of text and references are difficult to understand when placed in the form of a question. Kindly clarify the directions for this portion of the text." I was asking for the source titled "Lego Land in Rochester? Not quite, but here's one amazing structure", published in The Post-Bulletin to be added as an inline citation to the unsourced sentence "At the time of its completion, the Plummer Building was the tallest building in Minnesota and remained so until the Foshay Tower was finished in Minneapolis in 1929."


 * Another clarification: The sentence "It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and has recently undergone a complete restoration of its bell tower" was unsourced. The source Plummer Building published on Emporis verifies "It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969"


 * Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 22:41, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
 * The item concerning the Plummer building being the tallest in Minnesota was omitted, and in any event, was a notable distinction of the building for less than one year — and even then — is a bit of information more apropos to the article on the Plummer building. The claim regarding the bell tower was asked to be removed, while the Emporis reference is crowd-sourced. References concerning national registry of historic places ought to be referenced by the National Register of Historic Places. Regards, Spintendo  20:49, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Corporate information
Hello again! On behalf of my employer, Mayo Clinic, I am here with a request to create a Corporate affairs section. This could serve as an umbrella to incorporate details from Locations and Leadership. My draft below rewrites content from both of those sections, but I tried to keep this simple, giving a synopsis of important Mayo Clinic information, such as corporate structure, locations, and leadership.

Corporate affairs

Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida. Mayo Clinic employs 63,000 people, including more than 4,500 physicians and scientists and 58,400 administrative and allied health staff, as of 2018. Of those, approximately 34,000 are based in Rochester. In addition, Mayo Clinic partially owns and operates the Mayo Clinic Health System, which consists of more than 70 hospitals and clinics across Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Mayo Clinic also operates the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, a non-profit college dedicated to training medical and allied health professionals at Mayo Hospitals in Minnesota, Arizona, and Florida. The clinic created an independent business subsidiary in London in partnership with the University of Oxford and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to operate a clinic starting in 2019.

Mayo Clinic is led by President and CEO John H. Noseworthy, M.D. The previous CEO, Denis Cortese, retired in November 2009. Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., the CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida, became CEO when Noseworthy retired at the end of 2018. Samuel A. DiPiazza, Jr., retired CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is chairman of Mayo Clinic's governing board of trustees.

With my aforementioned conflict of interest, I am here to see if other editors can make the above changes.

Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 18:33, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
 * It looks good, but I'd call the Scottsdale clinic and hospital one campus. Yes, they are a couple of miles apart, but so are SMH and downtown Rochester. Jonathunder (talk) 21:29, 3 May 2019 (UTC)


 * I agree with Jonathunder that this looks good. As for the Scottsdale clinic and Phoenix hospital, are they under the same accreditation? SMH and Methodist in Rochester technically became a single legal entity in 2013. In any case, perhaps the first two sentences can be combined: "Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida." Trantorian (talk) 17:52, 4 May 2019 (UTC)
 * I think the first sentence should continue to say that Mayo is a group clinical practice focused on education and research, but I'm open on the best way to word that. Jonathunder (talk) 19:00, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Hey, User:Jonathunder and User:Trantorian! Thanks for the feedback. I would agree and I support Trantorian's revision: "Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida." The draft above is updated. Since I have a conflict of interest, can one of you make the changes? Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 20:11, 7 May 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Jonathunder and User:Trantorian: Is there still interest in creating this Corporate affairs section, as we discussed here? The draft above is updated. Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 17:52, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Audrey at Mayo Clinic: As there does not seem to be any active discussion on this matter, I partially implemented your edits by removing both Locations and Leadership, and adding the Corporate affairs section. The first paragraph is identical to your revised request; however, the second paragraph was edited for clarity. In particular, this sentence appears to be out of date: "Mayo Clinic is led by President and CEO John H. Noseworthy, M.D." Trantorian (talk) 22:00, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Trantorian: Thank you! This looks great. I really appreciate you updating the information. Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 19:20, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Ozmun redirect?
Why does "Ozmun Building" redirect here? I know the Ozmun Building is one of Mayo's buildings. But, if there is going to be a redirect to this article, shouldn't this article mention it at least once? SlowJog (talk) 17:49, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Erroneous edit
Hello again! On behalf of my employer, Mayo Clinic, I am here with a request to fix erroneous information added on October 16. This edit is incorrect. The hospital was actually opened by the nuns, the sisters; not the brothers, as the editor changed it to. It was correct before. Will editors please correct this error?

With my aforementioned conflict of interest, I am here to see if other editors can make the above fix.

Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 02:37, 10 November 2019 (UTC)


 * ✅ This has been fixed by Kablammo. Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 02:02, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Core operations
Hello again! On behalf of Mayo Clinic, I am here with a request to update Core operations. Essentially, there are a few figures that need to be updated. These include:
 * Number of patients seen
 * Number of countries from which those patients came
 * Numbers of research personnel
 * Number of new human research studies approved by the institutional review board
 * Number of ongoing human research studies
 * Number of research publications and review articles in peer-review journals
 * Number of health sciences career fields offered at Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences
 * Number of residencies and fellowships at Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education

I highlighted the updated content for easy review.

Core operations Patient care In 2018, more than 1.2 million different patients from all 50 states and 138 countries were seen at a Mayo Clinic facility. Mayo Clinic offers highly specialized medical care, and a large portion of the patient population are referrals from smaller clinics and hospitals across the upper Midwest and the United States. Mayo Clinic physicians are paid a fixed salary, which is not linked to patient volume (relative value units) or income from fee-for-service payments. This practice is thought to decrease the monetary motivation to see patients in excessive numbers and increase the incentive to spend more time with individuals.

Research Mayo Clinic researchers contribute to the understanding of disease processes, best clinical practices, and translation of findings from the laboratory to the clinical practice. As of 2018, research personnel included 254 full-time scientific faculty; 766 physicians actively involved in research; and 4,027 full-time research personnel. In 2018, there were 3,067 new human research studies approved by the institutional review board and 12,760 ongoing human research studies. These research initiatives led to 9,275 research publications and review articles in peer-review journals.

Education

The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (MCCMS), established in 1915, offers educational programs embedded in Mayo Clinic's clinical practice and biomedical research activities. MCCMS consists of five accredited schools, including the M.D. degree-granting Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine as well as the master's and Ph.D. degree-granting Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences offers training for about 60 health sciences career fields.lightgreen The Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education runs 300 residencies and fellowships in all medical and surgical specialties.lightgreen The Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development delivers continuing education courses aimed at practicing medical professionals.

With my aforementioned conflict of interest, I am here to see if other editors can make the above changes.

Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 16:08, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
 * , sorry about the delay in getting to this. To be honest, I don't love having this much organizational trivia in an article when it's only sourced to the organization itself, but if it's there already it might as well be current. Updated. creffett (talk) 23:12, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅, In the future when dealing with edit requests, when you are done, could you update the request edit tag to answered? This prevents a page which has already been solved from staying in the backlog. I have updated the tag as such this time. Thanks! WallabyWombat  ❯❯❯  Let's Talk!  10:06, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
 * , whoops, sorry about that. Thanks for pointing that out. creffett (talk) 10:15, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, creffett! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 19:54, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

History
Hello again! On behalf of my employer, Mayo Clinic, I am here with a request to update History. The page now contains inaccuracies, arcane information, and lacks some key developments while giving prominence to topics that are factually correct but arguably less significant in the history of a 155-year-old organization. My draft below rewrites content from the existing article. I attempted to simplify the writing (example: removing that the Mayo brothers attended medical school "when old enough"), fix inaccuracies (the 1914 "red brick" building was a national landmark, but was not on the National Register), and introduce major developments (the origins of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, expansion to Florida and Arizona, and creation of the Mayo Clinic Care Network) and reliable sources.

History



Early years

Mayo Clinic dates to the medical practice of William Worrall Mayo, M.D., (1819–1911), who immigrated to the United States from England in 1846. He came to Rochester, Minnesota, in 1863 as part of his appointment as an examining surgeon for the military draft board during the American Civil War.

On January 27, 1864, Dr. Mayo advertised in the Rochester City Post the opening of a private medical practice "over the Union Drug Store on Third Street" with "all calls answered by day or night".

Both of Dr. W.W. Mayo's sons, William James Mayo (1861–1939) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939) grew up in Rochester and attended medical school. William graduated in 1883 and joined his father's practice, with Charles joining in 1888.

On August 21, 1883, a tornado struck Rochester, causing at least 37 deaths and over 200 injuries. One-third of the town was destroyed, but the Mayo family escaped serious harm. Relief efforts began immediately in a variety of makeshift facilities. Dr. Mayo was placed in charge of organizing medical care for the wounded survivors. Needing nurses, he reached out to Mother Alfred Moes, the founder of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota (a teaching order).



After the crisis subsided, Mother Alfred approached Dr. Mayo with a proposal: The Sisters of Saint Francis would raise the funds to build a hospital in Rochester if Dr. Mayo and his sons would

provide the medical and surgical care. The agreement was made over a handshake. On September 30, 1889, Saint Marys Hospital was opened by the Sisters, with the three Mayo physicians on staff.

Group practice

Starting in the 1890s, other physicians whose professional skills and ethos of teamwork complemented those of the Mayo brothers were invited to join the growing practice. Preeminent among them was Henry Stanley Plummer, M.D. A specialist in thyroid disease, he contributed to the treatment of goiter. Dr. Plummer, whose interests included architecture and engineering, developed systems and procedures that have remained central to Mayo Clinic, such as the multi-specialty group practice and integrated medical record.

Growth and current practice

As the private practice grew, it required additional space. Saint Marys Hospital underwent frequent expansion. Rochester businessman John Kahler built hotel-hospital facilities that served Mayo patients. In 1914, the partners opened a new clinic building for multi-specialty group practice. This approach was replicated with the adjoining 1928 building, later named for Dr. Plummer, its principal designer, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The "red brick" building, a National Historic Landmark, was demolished by the Clinic in the

1980s to make way for the Siebens Building. Mayo Clinic's campus has undergone expansion over the years.

Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education was established in 1915, and is now part of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, which is divided into five schools. Those schools include Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development, and Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

In 1919, the Mayo brothers donated the clinic property and significant amounts of their wealth to transform the private practice into a not-for-profit organization.

In 1986, Mayo Clinic formally united with Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital. Also that year, Mayo Clinic expanded to Jacksonville, Florida, followed by expansion to Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1987; the Phoenix, Arizona, campus opened in 1998. In 1992, Mayo Clinic Health System began as a network of community-based

medical services in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. In 2011, Mayo Clinic launched the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a collection of facilities with access to Mayo Clinic protocols and experts.

Mayo Clinic rules mandate that its CEOs must be physicians and come from within Mayo Clinic. John H. Noseworthy, M.D., served as president and CEO from 2009-2019. Under his leadership, Mayo Clinic was reorganized into a single operating company with a unified strategy and business plan, which helped the system expand. This included the launch of the Destination Medical Center, a 20-year economic growth plan in Rochester. During this time, annual revenue reached nearly $12 billion and Mayo Clinic added 7,200 employees.

In 2011, the foundation that oversees the Mayo Clinic went before the Supreme Court to argue that medical residents should remain

exempt from Social Security deductions. In Mayo Foundation v. United States the court sided with the Social Security Administration and required FICA to be deducted going forward. The same year, Tarek Obaid made a major donation in the name of his family to establish the Essam and Dalal Obaid Center for Reconstructive Transplant Surgery. In 2010, when plans to establish a proton beam therapy program and to build new facilities in Rochester and Phoenix were underway, philanthropist and longtime Mayo Clinic patient Richard O. Jacobson donated $100 million to the nonprofit. At that time, the donation was the largest in the Mayo Clinic's history.

In 2018, Mayo Clinic announced that Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician for more than 30 years, would replace Dr. Noseworthy as CEO. Dr. Farrugia had served as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida since 2015. By 2018, Mayo Clinic doctors saw approximately 1.3 million patients annually.

With my aforementioned conflict of interest, I am here to see if other editors can make the above changes. User:Jonathunder and User:Trantorian: If you are still interested in updating this article, I appreciate your feedback.

Thanks! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 19:42, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
 * In general, I'd prefer to see the history section grow, not shrink, as there's so much material. If it becomes long enough, it could be spun off into a History of Mayo Clinic article with a summary of it here. Jonathunder (talk) 16:47, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for working on this section, Audrey at Mayo Clinic. I agree that the current published version needs significant revision. I also agree with Jonathunder in that Mayo Clinic has a rich enough history to be it's own article. This is where you can add significant value as a paid, albeit conflicted editor; volunteer editors like us simply don't have the time to build such an article alone. I encourage you to work on expanding the history and seeking input form non-COI editors in the process. That said, here are my general thoughts on what you have so far:
 * The Group practice section needs to be expanded. Consider adding short biographies of key physicians and scientists in the early group practice. It only talks about Henry Plummer right now, but Stinchfield, Graham, Millet, Judd, and Balfour (in addition to others I am sure) all deserve mention for their contributions.
 * The Growth and current practice section lacks coherence. Consider making a timeline (a graphic would be great here!) and discussing the history in a chronological manner (I see dates jumping from 1928, to the 1980s, back to 1915, then to 1986, which makes for a confusing read). I highly recommend moving some of this material in to new sections for clarity. I see these sections at the very least:
 * Architecture and art collection: Talk about all the historical buildings here. You can even add details about Mayo Clinic's art collection here, since I understand that it tries to create beautiful spaces to comfort patients and their families.
 * Educational programs: Talk about how the educational programs were started here. Be sure to include details on the partnership with the University of Minnesota and other institutions to maintain a neutral point of view. This can even link to Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science as the main article, or vice versa. Mayo Foundation v. United States would fit here too.
 * Research contributions: Talk about the historical contributions to research here. Some ideas include the G-suit, flight masks, cortisone, and Lambert Eaton syndrome (a small sampling from ).
 * National expansion: Talk about the founding of the AZ and FL campuses here. Can also include details on how the Mayo Clinic Health system came to be.
 * Philanthropists: Talk about the role of philanthropists in the growth of Mayo Clinic here. Tarek Obaid and Richard O. Jacobson are the only two mentioned in your history, but there must be so many others, including some with larger donations.
 * I'm happy to give you feedback along the way, but I may not always be prompt. Therefore I encourage you to solicit feedback from a broader set of editors (you will also get less push back on your COI edits if many editors weight in). Try alerting editors at WikiProject_Medicine for a quicker, broader response. Trantorian (talk) 16:47, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Wow, Trantorian, thank you so much for your input and guidance! I'm still learning how to navigate here and really appreciate your feedback. Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 14:02, 17 June 2019 (UTC)


 * User:Trantorian and User:Jonathunder: This is such great feedback. Thank you. Entire books could be written about the history of Mayo Clinic. In fact, they have! Mayo Clinic has been involved in the preparation of a great deal of historical reference work that discusses many of these issues, including The Mayo Clinic: Faith—Hope—Science, by David Blistein and Ken Burns, and Caring for the Heart: Mayo Clinic and the Rise of Specialization, by W. Bruce Fye. Could I use them to help grow this section? I wasn't sure if Mayo Clinic's involvement in these works might prohibit them from being used to grow History.


 * Also, this existing Wikipedia article contains sections on Innovation and Contributions to medicine. I am working on a draft that combines those two sections and really focuses on the contributions Mayo Clinic has made to medicine. Is material on innovation and contributions to medicine better handled in History, or within a Contributions to medicine section?


 * I really appreciate your feedback. Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 13:21, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Per Reliable sources, the work should editorially independent of the subject, as I know the Burns documentary was. A good article would ideally draw from and balance multiple reliable sources, of which there are many. Clapsaddle's The Doctors Mayo is one I've read which seems pretty good for the early history of Mayo. Jonathunder (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2019 (UTC)


 * User:Trantorian and User:Jonathunder: Thanks again. I will go back to work to expand this based on your feedback. Do you have any opinions on whether advances in medicine belong in History or a Contributions to medicine or Innovation sections? Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 20:29, 2 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Audrey at Mayo Clinic: I think either way works as I cannot find any pertinent Wikipedia policies or guidelines (but be sure to read over Manual of Style/Layout). I suggested above that advances in medicine could be a Research contributions subsection of History; however, it could be its own section if it is lengthy and includes recent advances. In that case, I would title the section as Contribution to medicine and science rather than Innovation to maintain a neutral point of view for the article structure. Right now, there are both Contributions to medicine and Innovation sections; these should be consolidated and expanded. Trantorian (talk) 14:21, 6 July 2019 (UTC)


 * Trantorian: Thanks so much for your feedback. I'll get to work on it! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 16:35, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

Trantorian and Jonathunder: Thank you again for your input and guidance! I updated my draft based on your thoughts. Certainly, there is more than can be written about the history of Mayo Clinic, and it is my hope that editors will continue to develop History. My draft can serve as a foundation for further collaboration among Wikipedia editors. Note that I tried something a little different with my citations; for books cited many times, I used the "reference pages" template to reduce the number of times the sources are listed in References. It should also be noted that, if my History is to be implemented, the current Innovations and Contributions to medicine could be removed, as my draft deals with those topics. Lastly, in my draft I removed information on philanthropists that is in the current article. Due to the number of donations Mayo Clinic has received during its history, the value of singling out specific donations in the encyclopedia is dubious.

Early years Mayo Clinic originates with the medical practice of William Worrall Mayo, M.D., (1819–1911), Born near Manchester, England, he was mentored by the eminent British scientist John Dalton  and immigrated to the United States in 1846. He worked his way west, earning two medical degrees at a time when formal education for physicians was limited. Dr. Mayo settled in Indiana, and he married Louise Abigail Wright in 1851. They moved to Minnesota Territory in 1854, seeking a more healthful climate. The family relocated within Minnesota several times until Dr. Mayo’s appointment as an examining surgeon for the Union Army military draft board during the American Civil War brought them to Rochester. On January 27, 1864, Dr. Mayo advertised in the Rochester City Post the opening of a private medical practice "over the Union Drug Store on Third Street" with "all calls answered by day or night".

Both of Dr. W.W. Mayo's sons, William James Mayo (1861–1939) and Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939), who became known as Dr. Will and Dr. Charlie, grew up in Rochester and attended medical school. William graduated in 1883 and joined his father's practice, with Charles joining in 1888. On August 21, 1883, a tornado struck Rochester, causing at least 37 deaths and over 200 injuries. One-third of the town was destroyed, but the Mayo family escaped serious harm. Relief efforts began immediately in a variety of makeshift facilities. Dr. Mayo was placed in charge of organizing medical care for the wounded survivors. Needing nurses, he reached out to Mother Alfred Moes, the founder of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota (a teaching order).

After the crisis subsided, Mother Alfred approached Dr. Mayo with a proposal: The Sisters of St. Francis would raise the funds to build a hospital in Rochester if he and his sons would provide the medical and surgical care. The agreement was made over a handshake. On September 30, 1889, Saint Marys Hospital was opened by the Sisters with the three Mayo physicians on staff.

Group practice The growing specialization of medicine and the expanding use of railroads, automobiles, and mass communications provided context for what Mayo Clinic calls its most significant and enduring contribution to the medical field: the content of integrated multispecialty practice.

Starting in the 1890s, the Mayo brothers welcomed other physicians to join them. Dr. W.W. Mayo’s solo practice had evolved into a family practice with his sons' participation and now became a group practice with colleagues whose professional skills and ethos of teamwork complemented those of the Mayo brothers. Mayo Clinic's first partners were physicians Drs. Augustus W. Stinchfield, Christopher Graham, Melvin C. Millet, Henry Plummer, E. Star Judd, and Donald Balfour.

Preeminent among the early physicians who joined the practice was Henry Plummer, M.D. A specialist in thyroid disease, he made milestone contributions to the treatment of goiter. In terms of organizational development, he collaborated with the Mayo brothers in coordinating the introduction of specialties that expanded the scope of the Mayo practice beyond its origins in surgery. A polymath whose interests included architecture, engineering and art, Dr. Plummer also created many of the systems and procedures that remain central to Mayo Clinic today, such as the integrated "dossier" medical record. In fact, Dr. Will said that hiring Dr. Plummer was the best day’s work he ever did.

Growth and national expansion By virtue of their surgical skills and efficient management, the Mayo brothers were financially successful and professionally prominent. They both served as president of the American Medical Association and achieved international recognition as surgeons. In 1919, the brothers and their wives donated the assets of the medical practice including land, buildings and equipment, as well as the majority of their life savings, to transform the private partnership into a not-for-profit organization dedicated to an integrated mission of patient care, medical education and medical research.

Following World War II, Mayo Clinic continued to expand in Rochester, Minnesota. The 1980s initiated transformative changes that set the course for the modern Mayo Clinic. An early adaptor of the Internet, Mayo Clinic has been recognized for its online communications to patients, members of the public and medical professionals.

In 1986, Mayo Clinic formally united with Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital. Also that year, Mayo Clinic expanded to Jacksonville, Florida, followed by expansion to Scottsdale, Arizona, in 1987; the Phoenix, Arizona, campus opened in 1998. In 1992, Mayo Clinic Health System began as a network of community-based medical services in Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. In 2011, Mayo Clinic launched the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a collection of facilities with access to Mayo Clinic protocols and experts.

Contributions to medicine and science In the early 20th century, Dr. Henry Plummer developed Mayo Clinic's multi-specialty group practice model and an integrated medical record system. Plummer's system allowed doctors to better share patient information with one another. Prior to Plummer's system, doctors worked in solo practice and shared patient information when necessary either verbally or by letter. Plummer also helped design and fabricate building systems innovations, such as steam sterilization rooms, metal surgical tools and equipment, pneumatic tube system, and knee operated sinks. In 1905, Mayo Clinic advanced a technique of using frozen tissue during surgery to determine if a patient had cancer while the patient was still in the operating room. Mayo Clinic offered the first graduate medical education program in 1915 and the first nonprofit practice aligned with medical education and research. In the 1920s, Dr. Albert Compton Broders of the Mayo Clinic created the first index to grade tumors. Mayo Clinic opened the first hospital-based blood bank in Rochester in 1935. Early in Mayo Clinic's history, the hospital designed the one-legged mobile instrument stand known as the Mayo stand.

In the 1930s, Mayo Clinic Drs. Walter M. Boothby, Randolph Lovelace, and Arthur Bulbulian developed a high-altitude mask for oxygen therapy that became known as the BLB flight mask.

During World War II, the U.S. Army tasked Mayo Clinic with finding a solution for pilots who were dying after suffering blackouts. Mayo Clinic hired a team of doctors to research and define the specific physiologic effects causing blackout and unconsciousness during high G forces. Physiologists Drs. Earl H. Wood, Edward Baldes, Charles Code and Edward Lambert developed the G-suit with air bladders that prevented blood from pooling in pilots' legs. The suit was worn by U.S. pilots toward the end of World War II.

Two Mayo Clinic doctors were among three people awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1950 for the discovery of cortisone. Professor Edward C. Kendall, PhD, and Dr. Philip S. Hench of Mayo Clinic were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine alongside Dr. Tadeus Reichstein, a Swiss chemist who conducted independent research, for the discovery. They separated and identified compounds from the adrenal cortex that produced cortisone and hydrocortisone. Later in the decade, Mayo Clinic began using and refining the Gibbon heart-lung machine in cardiac surgery. It is now known as the Mayo-Gibbon heart-lung machine.

Mayo Clinic Drs. Edward Howard Lambert, Lealdes (Lee) McKendree Eaton, and Edward Douglas Rooke were the first physicians to substantially describe the clinic and electrophysiological findings of what is known as Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome in 1956. In 1972, the clustering of LEMS with other autoimmune diseases led to the hypothesis that it was caused by autoimmunity.

In 1969, Mayo Clinic doctors performed the first Food and Drug Administration-approved hip replacement in the United States. In 1973, Mayo Clinic bought the first CT scanner in the U.S.

Mayo Clinic and Roche Molecular Biochemicals developed a rapid DNA test in 2001 to detect anthrax in humans and in the environment.

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation, was established in 2008 and has since worked on over 270 projects.

In 2013, Mayo Clinic specialists in regenerative-medicine begin the "first-in-human study" whereby patient cells are used to attempt to heal heart damage.

After several years using Apple Inc.'s Macintosh computers and mobile devices for patient care and test results, Mayo partnered with Apple in 2014 to develop the Apple Health and HealthKit apps to serve as a central location for personal health information. Mayo Clinic and Delos Living launched the Well Living Lab in September 2015. This research facility is designed to simulate real-world, non-hospital environments to allow Mayo Clinic researchers to study the interaction between indoor spaces and human health.

Architecture and art collection As the practice grew in the 20th century, it required additional space. Saint Marys Hospital underwent frequent expansion. Rochester business leader John Kahler built innovative hotel-hospital facilities that served Mayo Clinic patients. In 1914, Mayo Clinic opened the world’s first building expressly designed for multispecialty group practice, known as the 1914 "red brick" building. It facilitated ease of movement for patients and staff among specialty areas; brought research and education functions into proximity with clinical practice; and patient amenities. This approach was replicated and enhanced with the adjoining 1928 Mayo Clinic building, later named for Dr. Plummer, its principal designer, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Plummer Building features bronze entry doors designed by artist Charles Brioschi. Each 16-foot high, 5.25-inch thick door weighs 4,000 pounds and features ornamental panels. The doors are closed to memorialize important historical events and influential people, such as the deaths of the Mayo brothers, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and the victims of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The 1914 "red brick" building, a National Historic Landmark, was demolished by Mayo Clinic in the 1980s to make way for the Siebens Building (completed in 1989). Mayo Clinic's campus has undergone expansion over the years.

Other notable Mayo Clinic buildings include the Mayo Building (Rochester, Minnesota) (construction completed in 1955), Guggenheim Building (1974), Gonda Building (2001), and Opus Imaging Research Building (2007).

Over the decades, Mayo Clinic has established an extensive art collection, including works by Auguste Rodin, Andy Warhol, and Alexander Calder. Mayo Clinic's humanities program was founded on the belief that the arts and healing are linked.
 * '"Endangered Species" by Andy Warhol
 * "John D'Aire" by Auguste Rodin
 * "Fish" by Alexander Calder
 * "Man and Freedom" by Ivan Mestrovic
 * "Untitled" by Dale Chihuly
 * "Four Houses" by Jennifer Bartlett
 * "The Archer" by Joan Miro
 * "My Brother and I" by Tuck Langland
 * "Constellation Earth" by Paul Granlund

Educational programs

The first medical educational programs at Mayo Clinic were developed in 1915 with the assistance of the University of Minnesota. Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education and the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research were established in 1915. MFMER was established as a department of the University of Minnesota with a $1.5 million donation to offer graduate programs at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The Mayo Clinic School of Graduate Medical Education is now part of the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, which is divided into five schools. Those schools include Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic School of Continuous Professional Development, and Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.

In 2011, the foundation that oversees the Mayo Clinic went before the Supreme Court to argue that medical residents should remain exempt from Social Security deductions. In Mayo Foundation v. United States the court sided with the Social Security Administration and required FICA to be deducted going forward.

Current practice Mayo Clinic rules mandate that its CEOs must be physicians and come from within Mayo Clinic. John H. Noseworthy, M.D., served as president and CEO from 2009-2019. Under his leadership, Mayo Clinic was reorganized into a single operating company with a unified strategy and business plan, which helped the system expand. This included the launch of the Destination Medical Center, a 20-year economic growth plan in Rochester. During this time, annual revenue reached nearly $12 billion and Mayo Clinic added 7,200 employees.

In 2018, Mayo Clinic announced that Gianrico Farrugia, M.D., a Mayo Clinic physician for more than 30 years, would replace Dr. Noseworthy as CEO. Dr. Farrugia had served as CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida since 2015. By 2018, Mayo Clinic doctors saw approximately 1.3 million patients annually.

Trantorian and Jonathunder: If you both are still interested in updating this article, I really appreciate your feedback. Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 17:14, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅, thank you for taking the time to update this section. As there has been no input from other editors on this for several months and I do not see any major issues with your proposed revisions, I am publishing this to the main page. I hope other editors will continue to clean up this section and keep it up to date. Trantorian (talk) 03:11, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Thank you so much, Trantorian! Audrey at Mayo Clinic (talk) 15:54, 27 May 2020 (UTC)

How long were the Sisters of Saint Francis involved?
The section Mayo Clinic says that the Sisters of Saint Francis raised the funding for the initial hospital and helped staff it during its opening in 1889. Nothing more is said about the Sisters in the entire article. The article Sisters of Saint Francis of Rochester, Minnesota says that "While the congregation no longer owns or operates the hospital, it still maintains a close connection", but there is no citation for this claim.

Can information about the Sisters of Saint Francis' involvement over time be added? If the other article's claim is correct, when did they cease to own or operate the hospital? What is the nature of their "close connection" in the present day?-Thunderforge (talk) 04:36, 8 November 2021 (UTC)

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