Mayo Clinic Cancer Center.

DEFINITION: Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated group practice in the world. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, it contains hospital facilities, research laboratories, and a medical school. Together with its satellite hospitals and practices in Jacksonville, Florida and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Arizona, the clinic treats more than one million patients annually and operates by the philosophy that the needs of the patient come first. Mayo Clinic is consistently ranked as one of the best hospitals in the United States. It began as a small outpatient operation but now is a comprehensive healthcare institution for southern Minnesota and its neighboring states, providing a full range of inpatient and outpatient services. Its research department is also world-renowned, publishing more than 9,000 publications in peer-reviewed biomedical journals in 2022. The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science offers programs in graduate education and clinical medicine.