Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit medical practice and medical research group based in Rochester, Minnesota.

It employs more than 4,500 physicians and scientists and 57,100 allied health staff.

The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary care.

It spends over $660 million a year on research.

Minnesota (locally) is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States.

Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd U.S. state on May 11, 1858, created from the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory.

The state has a large number of lakes, and is known by the slogan "Land of 10,000 Lakes".

Its official motto is L'Étoile du Nord (French: Star of the North).

Arizona (O'odham: Alĭ ṣonak [ˡaɺi ˡʃonak]) is a state in the southwestern region of the United States.

It is also part of the Western United States and the Mountain West states.

It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states.

Its capital and largest city is Phoenix.

Arizona is one of the Four Corners states.

It has borders with New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, California, and Mexico, and one point in common with the southwestern corner of Colorado.

Arizona's border with Mexico is 389 miles (626 km) long, on the northern border of the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California.

Florida (Spanish for "land of flowers") is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.

It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba.

Florida is the 22nd-most extensive, the 3rd-most populous, and the 8th-most densely populated of the U.S. states.

Jacksonville is the most populous municipality in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States.

The Miami metropolitan area is Florida's most populous urban area.

The city of Tallahassee is the state capital.

U.S. News & World Report is an American media company that publishes news, opinion, consumer advice, rankings, and analysis.

Founded as a newsweekly magazine in 1933, U.S. News transitioned to primarily web-based publishing in 2010.

U.S. News is best known today for its influential Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, but it has expanded its content and product offerings in education, health, money, careers, travel, and cars.

The rankings are popular in North America but have drawn widespread criticism from colleges, administrations, and students for their dubious, disparate, and arbitrary nature.

The ranking system by U.S. News is usually contrasted with the Washington Monthly and Forbes rankings.