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01 Mayo Clinic

ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA

► Brothers William and Charles Mayo were part of a group of physicians who founded the Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 1889. It now has dozens of locations in five U.S.states and around the world, employees a 73,000-person workforce and cares for more than 1.3 million people each year with serious or complex illnesses. Since its founding, the Clinic has been an integrated practice, meaning it is an institution that can bring together doctors and other professionals from across specialties to treat patients. A renowed transplant center, the Clinic is also highly regarded for expertise in several specialty areas, particularly diabetes and endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics and gynecology. ● mayoclinic.org

02 Cleveland Clinic

CLEVELAND

►The Cleveland Clinic was founded over 100 year ago and now encompasses 19 hospitals with 5,900 beds and more than 220 outpatient locations in the U.S. and internationally. It has more than 4,600 physicians and scientists in multiple fields as well as over 14,000 registered nurses. In 2020, Cleveland Clinic treated 2.4 million patients, with 273,000 admissions and observations, 217,000 surgeries and other procedures and 8.7 million outpatient visits. Cleveland Clinic was one of the first academic medical centers in the U.S. to offer COVID-19 diagnostic testing. Highly rated in several specialties, Cleveland Clinic has been a longtime leader in cardiology and heart surgery. ● my.clevelandclinic.org

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

03 Massachusetts General

BOSTON

► The first and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, Massachussetts General was founded in 1811 to provide health care to all of Boston’s sick, regardless of their socioeconomic status. Mass General currently employs more than 25,000 people and its main campus handles about 1.5. million outpatient visits every year. The hospital now has about 1,000 beds and admits roughly 50,000 patients per year. ● massgeneral.org

04 Toronto General University Health Network

TORONTO

► Toronto General is the flagship of the University Health Network, which also includes Toronto Western Hospital, the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and The Michener Institute of Education. It was founded in 1819. The first single lung transplant was performed here in 1983, and the first double lung transplant was done at TGH three years later. TGH is the largest transplant center in North America. In 2020, it had 456 beds and had more than 56,000 visits to its emergency room. TGH in 2020 had 1,103 full time physicians and 4,297 nurses. ● uhn.ca/OurHospitals/TGH

05 Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

BERLIN

Founded 312 years ago when bubonic plague threatened Berlin, it is now one of the largest university hospitals in Europe, affiliated with Humboldt University and Free University Berlin. Researchers here developed the first diagnostic test to identify the COVID-19 coronavirus. Across its four