Items Tagged ‘Volunteer’
January 23, 2017
Aboard Floating Hospital, Bringing Medical Help to Poorest Nations
Brittany Blake, a nurse anesthetist at Mayo Clinic’s Florida campus, has participated in many international missions trips over the past five years. But her recent experience as a volunteer with Mercy Ships, an international faith-based organization that sends floating hospitals to some of the poorest nations is the world, was different than any of her […]
Tags: Brittany Blake, Volunteer
January 9, 2017
Mayo Medical Volunteers Find Perspective by Changing Lives in Ecuador
For years, Kallie Howerton and Kate Hudson had been listening to Kate Welp talk about the mission trips to Ecuador she organizes every year. The nurses work together on the Cardiovascular Surgery Progressive Care unit at Mayo Clinic Hospital — Rochester, Saint Marys Campus. “My preceptor planted the seed,” says Howerton, who has worked at […]
Tags: Giving Back, Medical Missions, Volunteer
October 21, 2013
Couple crosses country to help fellow patients
By SMHNadmin 
Sunny and Bill Meadows moved from Arkansas to Minnesota to volunteer their time to help other patients. “We hope that by giving back in this way, we can express our appreciation for all Mayo Clinic has done for us,” they say. On the surface, Sunny and Bill Meadows’ move from Fayetteville, Ark., to […]
Tags: 1737, 3786, 5291, 5335, Charter House, dialysis, kidney, Lupus, organ donation, Transplant, Transplant House, Volunteer
July 23, 2013
A Double Blessing: The Mexican Red Cross Donation
As an international patient coordinator at Mayo Clinic in Arizona, I have had many opportunities to work with patients to ensure that they receive the best medical care and attention. Helping patients is our number one priority at the International Patients Center. Last year, we had a unique opportunity to reach beyond our four walls […]
Tags: Arizona, Carlos Bloch, Cruz Roja, David Reidy, Donation, International Patients Center, Los Mochis, Mexican Red Cross, Mexico, Mila Vargas, Robert Ferrigni, Sinaloa
October 25, 2012
What Volunteering at Mayo Clinic Means to Me
By MakalaArce 
Many experiences in my life have impacted the way I look at the world and all of the different people around me. I have realized that the world is so much bigger than just me and my family. Working together with each of our strengths and weaknesses can bring about extraordinary hope and progress. A […]
Tags: Alison Miller, Volunteer
November 11, 2011
Healing A WWII Veteran’s 66-Year-Old Injury
By jasonpratt 
Mayo Clinic began because of a military connection and our commitment to servicemen and women has never faltered. As we celebrate Veteran’s Day this year, we salute the many Mayo Clinic staff members and patients who are veterans, helping to protect our freedoms. It is in their honor that we share this story about a […]
Tags: 5328, 5329, 5334, injury, Mayo Clinic in Florida, MayoClinicFL, military, Veteran, Volunteer
September 10, 2009
Becoming an Employee after 35 Years as a Mayo Patient
By Lee Aase, Director, Mayo Clinic Social Media Network 
Linda Rockey’s first experience at Mayo Clinic was in 1971, when her grandmother insisted that she come to Mayo Clinic for treatment of her worsening Crohn’s disease. “It was a week that just changed my life,” she says. Thirty years later Mayo neurosurgeon Dr. Fredric Meyer operated on Linda to repair a double aneurysm in her […]
Tags: Aneurysm, Brain surgery, Crohn's Disease, Employee Stories, Linda Rockey, Mayo Clinic, Patient Stories, Volunteer
March 26, 2009
By Jeff Bell 
Jeff Bell is the Section Head of Illustration and Design at Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN. Jeff and his team are responsible for all of Mayo’s media design. In 2003 I asked Randy McKeeman, Director of Child Life at Mayo Clinic’s children’s hospital, what he thought about the idea of me coming over to draw […]
Tags: art, Hospital, Mayo Clinic, medicine, Pediatrics, Sketch, Volunteer