ROCHESTER, MN –  As federal lawmakers prepare to increase the use of performance measures to improve quality of care, the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program has recognized Mayo Clinic’s Rochester Methodist and Saint Mary’s hospitals as having exemplary outcomes for surgical patient care.

As a participant in the ACS quality improvement program, Mayo Clinic hospitals are required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that directs patient safety and the quality of surgical care improvements. Mayo Clinic is the only academic medical center in the Minnesota five-state region recognized.