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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