Mayo Clinic in Florida: A Legacy of Dedication, Innovation and Excellence

This book of narrative history tells the inside story of how Mayo Clinic launched its first campus outside Minnesota. In doing so, a patch of farmland in Jacksonville, Florida got transformed into what today is a world—class medical center.

The colorful, sometimes chaotic story began with a Florida woman stuck in the snow as her husband got medical care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. That prompted an idea to expand the same great medical care, but without the snow. A group of Mayo innovators, ...