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            <title>David Etzwiler Named Executive Director of Minnesota Partnership's Decade of Discovery</title>
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            <description>David Etzwiler has been named executive director of the Decade of Discovery, an initiative dedicated to preventing, treating and curing Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. This collaboration, also known as the Decade, is led by the Minnesota Partnership for Biotechnology and Medical Genomics. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Named to Fortune's &quot;100 Best Companies to Work For&quot; List</title>
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            <description>Fortune magazine named Mayo Clinic to its select list of the &quot;100 Best Companies to Work For&quot; in 2012. This is Mayo's ninth consecutive year on the magazine's annual compilation of companies that rate high with employees. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic and University of Minnesota Renew Historical Commitment</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic today hosted University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler, Ph.D., to sign a renewal of a memorandum of understanding, tour Mayo Clinic, and meet with University of Minnesota students who are training and practicing at Mayo Clinic. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Implements Data-driven Model for Sustaining Service Performance</title>
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            <description>Details of a &quot;seven-prong&quot; model for improving service quality and creating value, developed by Mayo Clinic in Arizona, were published in the November/December issue of Journal of Healthcare Management. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Honored With Picker Award for Excellence in Patient-Centered Care</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic has received a prestigious 2011 Picker Award for Excellence in the Advancement of Patient-Centered Care. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic, Sweden's Karolinska Institutet Join Forces</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic and the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet will sign a long-term agreement to collaborate on education, research and innovation. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>100 Days at Mall of America: Update from Mayo Clinic</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinc will be making several changes to better meet visitors' needs at its Mall of America location. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Trustees Welcome New Member and Re-Elect Another</title>
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            <description>The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees welcomed a new member and re-elected another at its quarterly meeting. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic and the top science and technology organization in India have signed an agreement to collaborate on research. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Announces Kingman Regional Medical Center as Care Network Member</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic officials announced Kingman Regional Medical Center (KRMC), based in Kingman, Ariz., as a member of the newly created Mayo Clinic Care Network. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Celebrates 25 Years in Florida</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic's campus in Jacksonville is celebrating 25 years of providing world-class medical care. Events are planned throughout October. Since the clinic opened in 1986, more than half a million patients from all 50 states and 143 countries have come to Mayo Clinic in Florida for Mayo's unique patient-centered approach to medical care. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Signs Research Agreement with Czech Republic Institute</title>
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            <description>Leaders from Mayo Clinic and St. Anne's University Hospital Brno - International Clinical Research Center (ICRC), Czech Republic, have signed a legal agreement formalizing research collaborations and a long-term relationship. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Gold Cross Receives Medical Transport Reaccreditation</title>
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            <description>Gold Cross Ambulance has been reaccredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Systems (CAMTS). Gold Cross first received accreditation in 2008 and is currently the only ground ambulance service in Minnesota and Wisconsin with this designation. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Medical School Will Expand to Arizona</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic announced the expansion of Mayo Medical School in Rochester, Minn., to Arizona, creating a branch to be called Mayo Medical School - Arizona Campus. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Announces Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge at Clinton Global Initiative</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic announced today at the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) meeting in New York City its partnership with other organizations to develop a Global Smoke-Free Worksite Challenge. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Enters Collaboration that Takes Aim at Lou Gehrig's Disease</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic's campus in Florida has entered into a collaborative and sponsored research agreement with SK Biopharmaceuticals of Seoul, South Korea, with the goal of developing new treatments for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or Lou Gehrig's disease. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic officials today announced the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a network of provider organizations benefiting from access to Mayo Clinic expertise. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Creates Healthy Aging and Independent Living Lab</title>
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            <description>The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation (CFI) announced today that Best Buy is the founding consortium member of a new &quot;living lab&quot; in the Charter House, a continuing care retirement community in Rochester. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>ASU Biomedical Informatics Department Opens its Doors at Mayo Clinic</title>
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            <description>Arizona State University recently relocated its Biomedical Informatics department to the Scottsdale campus of Mayo Clinic. This move is part of a formal commitment to deepen collaborative efforts between Mayo Clinic and ASU in health care, medical research and education. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>$220 Million Grant Supports Mayo-Czech Research</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic will receive $10 million in research funding from the European Union (EU) as part of a $220 million grant to its collaborator, the St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno, the Czech Republic, to support clinical research and education at the International Clinical Research Center (ICRC) at St. Anne's and will focus initially on cardiovascular and neurological studies. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic, Altru Health System Enter Contractual Affiliation</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic and Altru Health System, based in Grand Forks, N.D., today announced a contractual relationship to further extend Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise to patients and providers throughout the Altru system. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Earns Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence</title>
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            <description>The Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville is a winner of the 2011 Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence from VHA Inc., a national health care network. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Trustees Name New Vice President and CEO in Arizona, Honor Named Professors</title>
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            <description>The Mayo Clinic Board of Trustees appointed a new vice president and chief executive officer in Arizona and recognized two recipients of Mayo Clinic named professorships at its quarterly meeting today. Wyatt Decker, M.D., has been named Mayo Clinic vice president and chief executive officer in Arizona, succeeding Victor Trastek, M.D. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic, Assured Diagnosis Inc., to Offer New Insurance Option for Canadians</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic has announced a new health insurance option that will allow Canadians to access Mayo Clinic expertise and care. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Mayo Clinic Completes HERO Best Practice Scorecard Pilot Program</title>
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            <description>Mayo Clinic Health Solutions was one of four organizations participating in a pilot program to evaluate the practical application of the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO) Employee Health Management Best Practice Scorecard. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Create Your Mayo Clinic Health Experience at Mall of America to Help People Live the Best Lives They Possibly Can</title>
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            <description>Construction has begun on 'Create Your Mayo Clinic Health Experience' at Mall of America, a new space designed to integrate health and health care needs to help people stay well and get well. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida and Mayo Clinic Strengthen Relationship by Expanding Network Options</title>
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            <description>Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida (BCBSF) and Mayo Clinic in Florida have expanded their agreement, making Mayo Clinic an in-network option for BCBSF BlueOptions (PPO) members, effective April 1, 2011. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <title>Minnesota Hosts Major Program to Advance Health Information Technology</title>
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            <description>Southeast Minnesota is hosting a major program to build a modern health information network as a means of improving efficiency and effective patient care. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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            <description>Midway Township first responders will receive an unexpected and pleasant surprise when they take delivery of a new rescue vehicle. The vehicle, a 1999 box-style ambulance, is a donation from Gold Cross Ambulance and fills an important need for the township. (Source: Mayo Clinic Business News)</description>
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