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.”

Providers 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 providers have access to Mayo Clinic Platform-enabled clinical solutions and services, including the following:

· 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 doctors 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.