Mayo Clinic

Programs: Patient care (see schedule o)mayo clinic hospital - rochester works collaboratively with mayo clinic in rochester to form an integrated medical center dedicated to providing comprehensive diagnosis and treatment in virtually every medical and surgical specialty. Utilizing common governance, shared systems and standardized policies and procedures whenever possible, mayo clinic hospital - rochester and its affiliated entities strive to provide consistent, high quality health care services and knowledge delivery regardless of where and how these are provided. Mayo clinic is the sole member of mayo clinic hospital - rochester. Overall governance for mayo clinic and its affiliated entities is provided by a board of trustees composed of a majority of public members along with mayo clinic physicians and administrators. This board of trustees ensures the entire organization, including mayo clinic hospital - rochester, remains true to its mission of providing for the health care needs of the public rather than for private benefit. A separate board of directors provides governance and policy direction for mayo clinic hospital - rochester. Mayo clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit medical group practice in the world. Its style of care brings together teams of experts to provide high-quality, affordable and compassionate care to each patient consistent with our primary value - "the needs of the patient come first". Mayo clinic's mission is "to inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research". Mayo clinic hospital - rochester combines its heritage of medical expertise, careful attention to individual patient needs and the expertise and resources of our affiliated entities to provide a thorough and personal approach to health care to meet the needs of our patients. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester is one of the largest private, non-profit hospitals in the world, providing a broad range of services in almost all medical specialties. Some of the treatment areas at mayo clinic hospital - rochester include: neurosurgery (including computer-assisted brain surgery and gamma knife treatment); epilepsy monitoring unit; cardiac treatment (including heart and lung transplant and robotic heart surgery); rehabilitation unit specializing in care of stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury; a pain rehabilitation center to treat patients who have chronic pain; ten intensive care units with 192 icu beds; mayo eugenio litta children's hospital (which includes a neonatal intensive care unit); and the mayo psychiatry and psychology treatment center. In addition, mayo clinic hospital-rochester houses a number of research laboratories, including units for gastrointestinal, endocrinology, and diabetes research as well as a general clinical research center which coordinates a wide variety of patient-related research. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester has 2,059 licensed beds and 67 operating and procedural rooms where 56,775 surgical procedures were performed in 2014. During 2014, 54,010 patients were admitted to mayo clinic hospital - rochester for a total of 299,864 patient days and there were 15,923 observation unit stays. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester operates on a nondiscriminatory basis, regardless of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester provides care to persons covered by governmental programs and services are provided to both medicare and medicaid patients/residents at substantial discounts from standard fees. Charity care is also provided for patients that are financially unable to pay for services provided. In 2014, the cost of charity care provided was approximately $8,950,000. The cost of uncompensated care provided to low income patients through medicaid and minnesotacare (a program that provides health care for low income minnesota residents) was approximately $49,056,000. This amount includes a medicaid surcharge of $16,829,330 and a minnesotacare tax of $18,416,058. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester is accredited by the american college of surgeons as a level 1 trauma center, directly servicing patients within a 200 mile radius, while also caring for patients from a much broader geographical spectrum. During 2014, approximately 72,000 emergency room visits were recorded. Mayo one helicopter service is available for patients within a 50-150 mile radius and is utilized to transport emergently ill patients to mayo clinic hospital - rochester. With mayo clinic, mayo clinic hospital - rochester operates the lifeline program, a personal response system for people who need help at home. Lifeline is dedicated to provide the highest quality system for the elderly and physically challenged individuals within the community to summon help when home alone as well as offering an automated fall recognition system. To accomplish its mission, lifeline pledges to provide quality equipment in the home and instant access to a twenty-four hour response center with highly trained staff, provide customer satisfaction through education and a rapid response time, recognize the responsibility for the safety of those served, continually search for innovative strategies to improve service, and strive to be recognized for excellence by those served and by the community.

education (see schedule o)mayo clinic hospital - rochester is integral to the education programs of mayo clinic college of medicine, providing essential clinical care experiences for residents, students and trainees. As a teaching hospital, mayo clinic hospital - rochester provided educational experience to the more than 1,665 residents of the mayo school of graduate medical education in 2014. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester provides clinical experiences for several mayo school of health sciences programs. These include a dietetic internship program, pharmacy residency program, chaplaincy internship program, nurse anesthesia, clinical pastoral education and others. Undergraduate clinical nursing experience is offered to students through affiliations with a number of nursing school programs. In addition, an administrative internship program is sponsored by mayo clinic hospital - rochester. Echocardiography and cardiovascular invasive specialist programs within the mayo school of health sciences are also based at mayo clinic hospital - rochester.

community activities & services and other (see schedule o): several subsidized community activities and services are offered by the hospital. Community education activities include a variety of childbirth and prenatal education classes including cesarean birth, six-week prenatal, prenatal comfort measures, infant massage, sibling preparation, magnificent multiples, infant passenger safety and grandparenting. Livestrong exercise programs specially developed and offered for post-treatment cancer patients are also available and falls prevention education and awareness for adult and pediatric populations are other specialty programs available. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester also offers teen traffic safety schools with presentations and interactive learning activities, underage alcohol and chemical trauma-related education and awareness, adult traffic safety through community events and safety fairs, bike safety helmet education and child passenger education. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester conducts daily chapel services open to the public and has a healthy living center for employees and their families. Mayo clinic hospital - rochester, has very active and engaged volunteers. In 2014, 674 active volunteers provided 76,821 hours of donated time in service to the patients, visitors and staff of the hospital. The estimated value of the time donated by these hospital volunteers was approximately $1,772,260, as valued by the independent sector's average estimated hourly value of such service. Some of the activities of the volunteers include:volunteers provide the "come & see program", a class for first grade students to introduce them in a non-threatening way to the hospital and to being a patient. A pediatric nurse conducts the class and includes all class participants in role-play situations. From admission to discharge, students learn about blood draws, vital signs, a surgical procedure (tonsillectomy), x-rays, and much more. The volunteers pay for the busing for students from rochester school district #535 as well as the cost of the items for a take-home bag. Volunteer staff schedule and coordinate these classes. For the 2013-2014 school year the program hosted 1,808 first grade students from 80 classrooms from rochester school district #535, rochester catholic schools, rochester central lutheran school and schaeffer academy as well as public schools in the surrounding communities of byron, chatfield and lewiston-altura. 152 volunteers staff the hospital gift shops under the direction of a paid supervisor. Gift shop proceeds are donated to the poverello and good samaritan fund and used to help needy mayo clinic hospital - rochester patients' pay their hospital bills. The remaining proceeds provide funding for the volunteer's growth fund and other activities such as heart & lung pillows. Volunteers provide staffing to assist patients and families in the emergency department, surgical waiting areas, visitor cafeterias, information/welcome desks, pediatric outpatient desk and cast room. Volunteers offer hospitality services to patients and family members such as a picture cart offering patients a choice of framed art for their rooms during their stay, surgical messengers working with nurse communicators to keep families informed on the day of surgery and patient comfort items, such as fresh water and warm blankets for inpatients volunteers staff the hospital library circulation desk and provide books, magazines and audiovisual items to patients and visitors. The volunteers also offer book cart services to deliver materials to patients in their hospital room. Volunteers sew stuffed animals that are distributed to pediatric patients in the emergency room, same-day surgery and radiology areas. Other items produced by volunteers include craniotomy caps, crutch caddies, wheelchair and bed caddies, baby quilts, knitted caps and booties for nicu patients, toe cozies for orthopedic patients, cloth memory envelopes for bereaved families and prayer shawls. These items are provided to patients at no charge. Trained volunteers provided over 6,500 hand massages to patients, family members and staff. Volunteers provided vigil companions to patients in their last hours of life who have no family or friends to be with them through a program called "no-one dies alone". The auxiliary also administers the mayo clinic erickson hair and skin care center to provide products, services and education for patients experiencing the cosmetic side effects of cancer treatment. The center was developed in response to emotional suffering experienced by individuals who lose their hair because of chemotherapy or other cancer treatments. The center, which is staffed by 2 licensed cosmetologists and 12 auxilians, provides wigs and caps at no cost to patients. During the past year, they served more than 1,866 patients, gave away 320 wigs and 740 caps. In addition, the center provided "look good, feel better" classes for cancer patients. In 2014, 12 group classes were offered serving 70 patients.