Mayo Clinic
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| Mayo Clinic | |
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| Type | Non-profit organization |
| Founded | Rochester, Minnesota, U.S. (1889) |
| Founder | Dr. Mayo Dr. Stinchfield Dr. Graham Dr. Henry Plummer Dr. Millet Dr. Judd Dr. Balfour |
| Headquarters | Rochester, MN, U.S. |
| Area served | North America |
| Industry | Healthcare |
| Website | http://www.mayoclinic.org/ |
Mayo Clinic is a non-profit medical practice based in Rochester, Minnesota. Its headquarters, the Mayo Medical School and its research facilities are in Rochester in addition to hospitals and clinics in Jacksonville, Florida and Phoenix, Arizona. Mayo Clinic partners with a number of smaller clinics and hospitals in Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin, an organization known as the "Mayo Health System".
For historical reasons, the institution is referred to as "Mayo Clinic", rather than "The Mayo Clinic" or "Mayo's Clinic." The clinic started as a single small outpatient facility.
Mayo Clinic pays medical doctors a fixed salary that is unaffected by patient volume. Salaries are determined instead by the marketplace salaries for physicians in comparable large group practices.
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[edit] History
Mayo Clinic evolved from the frontier practice of Dr. William Worrall Mayo and his two sons, William James Mayo (1861–1939) & Charles Horace Mayo (1865–1939). Dr. William Worrall Mayo emigrated from Salford, United Kingdom, to the United States in 1846 and became a doctor.
The Mayo Clinic founders and partners included the Dr. Mayo, Dr. Stinchfield, Dr. Graham, Dr. Henry Plummer, Dr. Millet, Dr. Judd, and Dr. Balfour. These early partners shared in the profits of the private group practice, while other staff hired later were salaried. In 1919, this group created the Mayo Properties Association, and their private practice become a not-for-profit entity. The Mayo brothers, who had retained ownership of all the Clinic properties and furnishings, gave everything to this newly formed association. The integrated group practice has it roots firmly planted in this early partnership.
In 1892, Dr. Augustus Stinchfield was asked to join the practice by Dr. Mayo, who considered him to be the best doctor in the small towns adjacent to Rochester. Once Dr. Stinchfield joined the practice, Mayo retired at the age of 73.
Dr. Henry Stanley Plummer become a partner in the Clinic practice 1901. He is considered by many to be the "architect of the modern medical practice"[who?] and a primary reason for Mayo Clinic's early success. He designed many of the systems which are now universally used around the world today, such as a shared, individual dossier-style medical record and an interconnecting telephone system.[citation needed] He was well known for his pioneering work on the diseases of the thyroid, but his organizational skills proved to be his lasting legacy at Mayo Clinic.[1] While the Mayo brothers excelled as surgeons, Dr. Plummer is largely credited with establishing and developing the diagnostic and clinical aspects of the practice. Dr. Louis B. Wilson was hired by the Clinic in 1907 - at Dr. Henry Plummer's urging - to establish research and diagnostic laboratories.
The Clinic's Plummer Building, was designed by Johnathan William Dawson from the architectural firm of Ellerbe & Round, with considerable input from Clinic staff, and all under the guidance of Dr. Henry Plummer. At the time of completion in 1928, it was the tallest building in Minnesota and remained so until the Foshay Tower was built in Minneapolis. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and has recently been undergoing an award winning restoration of its bell tower.[citation needed] The Ellerbe firm is the architect of record for the 1914 Mayo "Red" building, the 1922 Mayo Institute of Experimental Medicine, the 1927 "Plummer" building, the 1954 Mayo building, the new 2002 Gonda building, as well as the Rochester Methodist Hospital. The Mayo campus in Rochester occupies roughly three times the area of the Mall of America. Mayo Clinic Rochester employees over 30,000 people.
Dr. Mayo helped found the medical school at the University of Minnesota with a two million dollar gift in 1917, and until the early 1970s, staff doctors were professors at the medical school. In 1972, the Mayo Clinic began its own medical school in Rochester. [2]
Mayo Clinic is led by President and CEO, Denis A. Cortese, MD, who earns approximately US $745,000 per year.[3] In 2007, annual revenue at Mayo Clinic grew 10%, to $6.9 billion. [4]
[edit] See also
- Analyze (biomedical software package)
- 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
[edit] References
- ^ Willius, F. "Henry Plummer: A Diversified Genius", Springfield, Ill: Thomas, 1960.
- ^ Mayo Medical School
- ^ "Who Makes What" Minnesota Monthly, January 2008
- ^ "Mayo Clinic Reports Revenue Grew 10%" Star-Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul), March 17, 2008]
[edit] 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
- Mayo Clinic Bookstore
- History of Mayo Clinic
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