Computer Access for Patients and Their Families

Wireless Access

Mayo Clinic offers high-speed wireless Internet access to Mayo Clinic patients and their guests. This free service is available on the Saint Marys Hospital campus and the downtown campus (in the Mayo, Gonda, and Charlton buildings and Rochester Methodist Hospital).

Gonda Building

Twelve computers with Internet and email access are available for Mayo patients and family members in the Patient Communications Center on the lobby level of the Gonda Building. Two Internet connections are provided for personal laptop computers. There is a 30-minute time limit if people are waiting. Printing is free for up to five pages; beyond that, there is a 10-cent fee per page. The center is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Computers with Internet access are also available for patient use in the lobbies of the Gonda Building, floors two through 10.

Mayo Hospitals

Computers are available in the patient libraries at Rochester Methodist Hospital and Saint Marys Hospital.

CarePages

Mayo Clinic offers CarePages, a free Web service to help you keep in touch with loved ones back home and elsewhere. Through CarePages, family members can post messages, updates and pictures efficiently and quickly. Loved ones can respond with messages of support and encouragement. Families often find CarePages easier to use than making and receiving multiple phone calls.

CarePages can be created or visited by anyone with Internet access. The service is confidential, secure and private.