Regionalization of General Surgery Within the Mayo Clinic Health System and the Mayo Clinic

Regionalization of surgery is an important component of surgical outcomes. This has been based on numerous studies validating the relationship of surgical volume to surgical outcomes. The Mayo Clinic is actively engaged in regionalization of surgery within its health system. It has embraced a nonvolume outcome approach focusing on outcomes using electronic medical record data mining and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Implementing surgical regionalization is supported but ineffectively implemented. In addition, the implementation process has been poorly described in the literature. The Mayo clinic has actively implemented regionalization within its health system, which includes supporting the health system.