Saint Marys Hospital

About

North Tower entrance of Saint Marys

Mayo Clinic, Saint Marys Hospital and Rochester Methodist Hospital form an integrated medical center. Mayo Clinic patients who need hospitalization are cared for in one of the two Mayo Clinic hospitals in Rochester. The hospitals serve only Mayo Clinic patients and are staffed exclusively by Mayo Clinic doctors. A single administrative team manages both hospitals to most efficiently serve patients' needs.

Saint Marys is one of the nation's largest private hospitals and provides services in virtually every medical specialty. Saint Marys began in 1889, a joint project between the Sisters of Saint Francis and the Mayo brothers and their father. (See history.)

Five buildings at Saint Marys Hospital are named to honor Saint Marys' foundress and first administrator, Mother Alfred, and four Sisters who previously served as hospital administrators: Sisters Joseph, Domitilla, Mary Brigh and Generose. (See map.) The Francis Building honors the many Franciscan Sisters who have served at the hospital since its founding.

Services

Among the areas unique to the hospital are:

• Neurosurgery, including computer-assisted brain surgery and gamma knife treatment


Robot-assisted heart surgery procedure at Saint Marys

• Epilepsy Monitoring Unit
• Cardiac treatment, including heart and lung transplant and robotic heart surgery
• Emergency Department, a Level One Trauma Center, including Mayo One, Minnesota's first air ambulance service
• Rehabilitation unit specializing in care of stroke, spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury and a Pain Rehabilitation Center to treat patients who have chronic pain


Patient learns biofeedback at the Pain Rehabilitation Center

• Ten intensive care units
• Mayo Eugenio Litta Children's Hospital, including neonatal intensive care
• Mayo Psychiatry and Psychology Treatment Center, Generose Building
• Saint Marys also houses a number of research laboratories, including the General Clinical Research Center, which coordinates a wide variety of patient-related research, Gastrointestinal Research Unit, Endocrine Research Unit and Diabetes Research Unit.