Article: Innovations in the cornfields makes the Mayo Foundation a fast-moving heavyweight in both finance and medicine. (Hospital Financing Supplement)

CHICAGO -- A belief in innovation and flexibility helped the Mayo Foundation build a $1 billion-plus pile of money for itself. With the resources and outlook needed for risk taking, the nonprofit has seized on investment opportunities in a way most hospitals cannot.

Last year the Rochester, Minn., nonprofit boasted financial statements that are a picture of financial health: revenues topping $1.3 billion and net operating income above $35 million.

The foundation controls the finances of the Mayo Clinic, a complex of more than 30 buildings that in 1991 drew former President Reagan, King Hussein of Jordan, and about 400,000 other patients to the cornfields ...

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