Mayo's experts believe that for developing countries like China, Mayo's set of health care systems built over the past few decades could be useful. Iowa. There are more than 750 physicians and 10,000 nursing staff in these community hospitals***. Mayo Health System enforces a standard of patient care that has earned the trust of local residents.
These community hospitals refer patients to the higher-level Mayo Rochester Clinic in a timely manner once they have a complex case that requires a specialist's consultation or if they encounter a major surgery, for example. After completing their primary care there, they are sent back to Mayo Community Hospital for continued post-acute care.
In Mayo's "tree of care" model, branch hospitals not only maintain close contact with physicians at the headquarters hospital to provide care to patients, but also have access to Mayo's advanced laboratories and medical testing equipment and other resources. ***These resources are used to minimize operating costs and medical errors across the entire Mayo system.