July 26, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
July 26, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations […]
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April 29, 2013
Minnesota Legislature makes welcome progress on Mayo
The Legislature seems to have found a way to say yes to Mayo Clinic’s call for help in building what it calls a Destination Medical Center in Rochester. Similarly structured provisions to help Rochester pay for the public infrastructure demands of a major Mayo expansion have landed in the House and Senate tax bills. The […]
Tags: destination medical center, DMC, Gov. Mark Dayton, Minnesota Legislature, public infrastructure, Star Tribune, state tax, tax conference committee
March 20, 2013
Mayo Clinic seeks expansion project, faces scrutiny in committees
Minnesota’s largest private employer, the Mayo Clinic of Rochester, has been flexing its muscles at the State Capitol this session, with hopes of passing one-of-a-kind legislation that will help the medical institution achieve a $6 billion project to expand itself and also grow the city of Rochester. A few weeks into the current legislative session, […]
Tags: Gov. Mark Dayton, infrastructure improvements, legislation, State Capitol, tax revenues, The Caledonia Argus
March 8, 2013
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
March 8, 2013 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media […]
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March 4, 2013
Bill George: Making Minnesota a global Mecca for health care
As Minnesota and the nation implement the Affordable Care Act, the Mayo Clinic’s proposal to make Rochester a “destination medical center” is most timely. The proposal has received broad endorsements from Gov. Mark Dayton and members of the Legislature. Serving on Mayo’s board of trustees this past year, I gained a deeper appreciation of its […]
Tags: Affordable care act, destination medical center, DMC, Gov. Mark Dayton, role model, Star Tribune, state legislature
February 12, 2013
Dayton Offers Stronger Support For Mayo Expansion
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is expressing his strongest support yet for an expansion of the famed Mayo Clinic that depends on the state aiding with related development costs. Dayton told a group of veteran Democrats at a luncheon Monday that he sees room for negotiation on what a public contribution would be. But he says he’s […]
Tags: development costs, expansion, Gov. Mark Dayton, Mayo Clinic, public contribution, WCCO