Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Nonprofit Academic Medical Center

Nonprofit academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research, providing innovative practice, clinical research and diagnostics, compassionate patient care.

What is Mayo Clinic?

The Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit academic medical center based in Rochester, Minnesota. Founded in 1889, it has a long history and strong reputation for innovation and advancement in patient care, medical research and education.

The Mayo Clinic pioneered the integrated group practice model of medicine, bringing together medical specialists from various fields to provide comprehensive diagnostics and care tailored to individual patients' needs. Its practice focuses on an integrated model of care centered around the patient, aiming to meet all patient health care needs seamlessly under one roof.

Key focus areas for the Mayo Clinic include complex and rare diseases, organ transplantation, regenerative medicine, cancer, heart and vascular conditions, brain disorders, infectious diseases and medical genetics. It is at the forefront of using precision medicine to customize treatments based on patients' genes, environments and lifestyles.

In addition to direct clinical practice, Mayo Clinic has an extensive medical research program, publishing hundreds of studies each year to advance medical knowledge and improve patient care. It offers highly specialized medical training to resident physicians and fellows.

With campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; Scottsdale/Phoenix, Arizona; and a large network of affiliated hospitals and clinics, the Mayo Clinic provides care to over 1.2 million patients per year. Its website contains a wealth of freely accessible medical information for public education.

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