ROCHESTER, Minn. — Southeast Health and Mayo Clinic announced that Southeast Health in Dothan, Alabama, has joined the Mayo Clinic Care Network. Southeast Health, a community-based academic health system, is the first hospital in Alabama to join Mayo Clinic Care Network.

Mayo Clinic Care Network members receive special access to Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise, including transformational capabilities and access to digital solutions and technologies from Mayo Clinic Platform. Members are carefully vetted, independent healthcare organizations.

"Being invited to join the Mayo Clinic Care Network is a tremendous honor for Southeast Health and a meaningful milestone for the patients and communities we serve," says Rick Sutton, CEO of Southeast Health and president of the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine. "This collaboration gives our physicians access to Mayo Clinic's world-renowned expertise while ensuring patients can continue receiving high-quality care close to home. It also reflects our team's unwavering commitment to advancing clinical excellence and furthers our goals to become one of the top health systems in the nation."

Healthcare professionals from Southeast Health can combine their understanding of their patients' medical needs with Mayo Clinic expertise, so patients get the care they need, close to home.

"We are pleased to welcome Southeast Health into the Mayo Clinic Care Network," says Ryan Uitti, M.D., medical director, Mayo Clinic Platform. "This collaboration showcases their commitment to excellence and their readiness to leverage Mayo Clinic resources to benefit patients across this region."

Through Southeast Health's membership in the Mayo Clinic Care Network, its healthcare professionals have access to Mayo Clinic Platform-enabled clinical solutions and services, including:

• AskMayoExpert: A point-of-care tool offering concise clinical information on hundreds of medical conditions, including medical protocols, treatment recommendations and medical references. The database can be used wherever healthcare is provided.
• eConsults: Connections to Mayo Clinic specialists for second opinions on specific patient cases.
• eBoards: Live, scheduled video conferences that enable medical teams at Southeast Health to review and discuss complex cases with a Mayo Clinic multidisciplinary panel and other physicians in the Mayo Clinic Care Network.
• Healthcare consulting: Access to Mayo Clinic's extensive experience, knowledge and subspecialty expertise to achieve clinical, operational and business goals.

Staff from Southeast Health can use Mayo Clinic educational materials designed for patients and access opportunities for professional development and continuous medical education.

Southeast Health and other Mayo Clinic Care Network members remain independent and join an ecosystem of more than 45 healthcare organizations around the world.

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About Southeast Health
Southeast Health is an academic community-based health system serving residents in southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.
The system includes a 420-bed Medical Center, the region's largest network of primary care and specialty clinics, a philanthropic foundation, Statera Network for population health and the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM).
Southeast Health, a not-for-profit system, promotes healing, prevents disease, educates medicine's brightest minds, and brings wellness and prosperity to the region.

About Mayo Clinic 
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit organization committed to innovation in clinical practice, education and research, and to providing compassion, expertise and answers to everyone who needs healing. Visit the Mayo Clinic News Network for additional Mayo Clinic news. 

About Mayo Clinic Platform
Mayo Clinic Platform is a strategic initiative of Mayo Clinic that enables collaboration, data-driven innovation and responsible AI development to transform healthcare globally. Mayo Clinic Platform is reimagining healthcare as an ecosystem—one where data, digital solutions, and expertise flow seamlessly between innovators and care teams to improve care for patients everywhere.

Media contacts:

• Caroline Auger, Mayo Clinic Communications, newsbureau@mayo.edu 
• Mark Stewart, Southeast Health Communications, marketing@southeasthealth.org

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