Backgrounder — Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

• Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale is a multi-specialty outpatient clinic emphasizing the team approach to delivering healthcare services. One of the leading academic medical centers in the Southwest, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale focuses on providing specialty and surgical care in more than 66 disciplines, including programs in cancer diagnosis and treatment and organ transplantation.
• Since opening in 1987, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has become an integrated, multi-campus system that includes the outpatient facility and the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building on a 150-acre campus in Scottsdale; Mayo Clinic Hospital in northeast Phoenix; and several primary care outpatient centers.
• With more than 280 physicians and an allied health staff of nearly 4,000, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has treated more than 600,000 patients from all 50 states and more than 80 countries
• Mayo Clinic Hospital, which opened in 1998 in northeast Phoenix, is a 205-bed facility that provides inpatient services by Mayo Clinic physicians for their patients who require hospitalization.
• Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale is one of three Mayo Clinic sites, including Rochester, Minn., and Jacksonville, Fla. Together, these three sites form a single Mayo Clinic, a premier integrated healthcare organization that has provided research, education and patient care for more than a century.
• The three sites are linked electronically, so that physicians at each site may collaborate with each other to provide the excellent patient care and access to multiple research studies for their patients.
• Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale continues the tradition of leadership in clinical practice, research and education that was first established at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Research and education are integrated with clinical practice at Mayo Clinic to provide the most current healthcare diagnostic and treatment procedures for patients.
• At the Samuel C. Johnson Medical Research Building at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, medical scientists are engaged in a variety of basic science research studies, focusing on molecular genetics and cell and molecular biology, including research in areas such as asthma, breast cancer, and Hepatitis C and pancreatic cancer.
• Medical education at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale has grown rapidly and today includes residency and fellowship programs in 32 clinical areas, 90 programs in undergraduate medical education, and numerous programs in health-related sciences education, nursing, continuing medical education, and patient and health education programs. Nearly 100 residents and fellows participate in six Scottsdale-based Residency programs and 25 Scottsdale-based Advanced Fellowship programs.

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Contact:
Anne Tewksbury
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale
phone: 480-301-4368

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