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A Year Accelerating Answers
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Eds Note: Through expertise, innovation and a commitment to its patient-first values, Mayo Clinic plays a leading role in the worldwide pandemic response. Watch Mayo Clinic's recent virtual event of the organization's efforts here.
When the first patient arrived at Mayo Clinic’s Rochester campus with a suspected COVID-19 infection, a multidisciplinary care team was ready to respond. This team would later be known at Mayo as the “Super Six.”
In December, the Super Six were the first Mayo Clinic staff members in Rochester to receive COVID-19 vaccinations. It was a milestone in a transformative journey for these frontline care workers. For more than a year, Mayo Clinic staff have adapted to rapid change while ensuring the needs of patients come first.
Mayo Clinic’s patient-first pandemic response has come with challenges, but it has also presented opportunities to reimagine health care. Listen to members of the Super Six share their experiences and explain why Mayo Clinic’s pandemic response will transform the future of health care.
When Judy Alico passed away at age 51, her family was shell-shocked and heartbroken. Her husband, Bob, took action, forming a nonprofit to raise awareness and funding for Mayo Clinic and other organizations to study the condition that took Judy's life.
Judy Ethen lost her father and brother to pancreatic cancer. Her own case was diagnosed and treated early through Mayo Clinic’s High-Risk Pancreas Clinic, made possible by a generous gift of $22.1 million.
In an old family farmhouse outside small Delavan, Minnesota, Mike Hoffman is getting to know his mom a bit better. She died nearly 40 years ago, but through a stack of yellowed letters, Mike and his wife, Tami, are delving into a part of her life that they didn't previously know much about -- her life built upon her nursing studies at Mayo Clinic.