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Bernard and Edith Waterman

A transformational gift from Bernard and Edith Waterman supports the next generation of healthcare.

By Mayo Clinic

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Bernard and Edith Waterman started coming to Mayo Clinic for care more than 30 years ago, and above all else, they have valued the personal relationships they formed with their care teams.  

“We feel close to them, and they feel close to us,” says Edith.  

The dedication of their physicians and desire to make sure this personalized care was available to all patients inspired Edith and her late husband, Bernard, to support Mayo Clinic.  

"The care teams at Mayo Clinic are dedicated to excellence. We want to support that dedication so they can continue to bring better solutions to patients."

— Edith Waterman

“The care teams at Mayo Clinic are dedicated to excellence,” says Edith. “We want to support that dedication so they can continue to bring better solutions to patients.”  

Their previous gifts to Mayo Clinic have generously supported capital expansion, individualized medicine and cancer genetics research. Their recent transformational gift will support Mayo Clinic’s vision for Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester.  

Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester is our most forward-looking vision for creating an entirely new way of thinking about how we deliver personalized care by revolutionizing healthcare’s physical infrastructure.  

As part of this initiative, Mayo Clinic will name a new clinical building the Bernard E. and Edith B. Waterman Building in recognition of their generous gift. The Waterman Building’s central location will make it a hub of innovation and a beacon of hope and healing for patients. 

Bold. Forward. Unbound. in Rochester is part of a once-in-three-generations investment to transform the patient experience, advance teamwork, create more cures and improve outcomes. It will propel our Bold. Forward. strategy to Cure more diseases and complex conditions for our patients; Connect people and data to create new scalable knowledge; and Transform our entire healthcare system from a linear pipeline model to a scalable, highly collaborative platform model.