Mayo Clinic Celebrates 15 Years in Scottsdale, Arizona

Tuesday, June 25, 2002

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., June 25, 2002 – Mayo Clinic celebrates 15 years of providing patient care, research and education in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, June 28.

Since opening in 1987, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has provided medical care for more than 600,000 patients including people from all 50 states and 80 countries.

When the Clinic opened, there were 42 physicians and 220 support personnel. Today, including Mayo Clinic Hospital in northeast Phoenix, the organization is comprised of 279 physicians and a support staff of nearly 4,000.

Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale is part of Mayo Foundation which includes the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., founded over a hundred years ago by Dr. William W. Mayo, and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, which opened a year before the Scottsdale facility. Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 66 disciplines, including programs in cancer and organ transplantation.

Now, an integrated, multi-campus system, the organization includes Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale (the outpatient facility), Mayo Clinic Hospital, the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building, four primary care centers throughout the Valley, and the Mayo Center for Women's Health. The 181-bed Mayo Clinic Hospital, which opened in 1998, was the first hospital planned, designed and built by Mayo Clinic. Its organ transplant program opened in 1999, and to date more than 100 liver transplants and nearly 100 kidney transplants have taken place there, including the first live donor liver transplant in Arizona.

Research and education are integrated with patient care at all Mayo Clinic facilities. The basic science research program at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale began in 1990 with researchers working in temporary trailers. Today, the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building houses nine basic science research programs in cell and molecular biology, focusing on diseases such as asthma, breast cancer, and cystic fibrosis. Clinical research studies at Mayo Clinic Scottsdale now number over 150, having started with 44 in 1987. Medical education at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has also grown rapidly since 1987, and today includes more than 20 Scottsdale-based residency and fellowship programs, continuing education courses, medical student clerkships, nursing, allied heath training opportunities and patient education programs. Some $17 million in new construction projects will begin later this year at the Mayo Clinic Hospital site, including the addition of 24 hospital beds, expansion of the transplant and radiology areas and construction of new administrative and data buildings.

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