nonprofit academic medical center and health system
Mayo Clinic
Industry Health
A nonprofit academic medical center and health system known for specialty care, research, education, and public medical information. Mayo Clinic scores comparatively well because nonprofit medical excellence and public knowledge are real goods, though elite access, billing, and institutional medicine still limit the rating.
Why this matters: Mayo is a high-quality nonprofit healthcare anchor against which for-profit hospital chains can be calibrated.
Letter grade C Performative High confidence (AI) Rubric gcd-rubric-v1
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Evaluation Overview
C - Performative
The score turns mainly on Ownership, with the largest penalty coming from Accountability Opacity.
Strengths
- Ownership5/10
- Governance5/10
- Extraction5/10
Penalties
- Accountability Opacity-2
- Human Harm-1
- Policy Capture-1
- Subscription Capture-1
Evidence state
- ConfidenceHigh confidence (AI)
- ThoroughnessDeveloped (AI)
- Linked claims17
- Direct axis claims17
- Coverage17/17
Scoring Axes
| Axis | Score | Why this score |
|---|---|---|
Ownership
?
Control rights: shareholder-dominated at 0, worker cooperative control
at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Mayo Clinic's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the health category. Linked evidence
|
Governance
?
Binding decision authority: centralized control at 0, democratic
stakeholder control at 10.
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5 / 10 |
Mayo Clinic's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers. Linked evidence
|
Extraction
?
Surplus allocation, wage share, CEO pay ratio, margins, and structured
extraction judgment.
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5 / 10 |
Mayo Clinic's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery. Linked evidence
|
Labor Sovereignty
?
Worker power: coercive conditions at 0, co-determination or ownership at
7. Employee dissatisfaction matters only when source-backed evidence
shows concrete limits on worker agency, such as coercive scheduling,
retaliation, wage theft, harassment, unsafe conditions, suppression of
worker voice, or extreme turnover.
|
4 / 7 |
Mayo Clinic's linked public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution. Linked evidence
|
Solidarity with the
Unemployed
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Treatment of exits and nonworkers, including severance, redeployment,
and non-competes.
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5 / 7 |
Mayo Clinic operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power. Linked evidence
|
Loss-Bearing Fidelity
?
Willingness to absorb costs to preserve values, workers, users, and
public obligations.
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5 / 7 |
Mayo Clinic's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise. Linked evidence
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Market Conduct
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Pricing fairness, switching costs, lock-in, and rent extraction.
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4 / 5 |
Mayo Clinic operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice. Linked evidence
|
Product Integrity
?
Preservation of quality rather than degradation for monetization.
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5 / 5 |
Mayo Clinic's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability. Linked evidence
|
Scale Integrity
?
Whether growth improves or degrades fairness and accountability.
|
5 / 5 |
Mayo Clinic's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities. Linked evidence
|
Penalties
| Penalty | Applied | Why this penalty |
|---|---|---|
Human Harm
?
Severity, scale, culpability, vulnerable targets, willful reoffense,
reputation laundering, pattern escalation, and time decay. Range: -20 to
0.
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-1 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Human Harm relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Policy Capture
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Private-interest attempts to bend law, regulation, subsidies, taxes,
enforcement, trade, labor, safety, competition, environmental,
healthcare, housing, surveillance, civil-liberties, or consumer policy
against workers, customers, citizens, affected communities, or
ecological life. Public-interest advocacy is not penalized merely
because it is lobbying. Range: -15 to 0.
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-1 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Policy Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Subscription Capture
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Manipulative recurring-payment, automatic-renewal,
cancellation-friction, bundling, trial-conversion, or refund designs
that profit from inertia or confusion. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-1 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Accountability Opacity
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Material opacity, reputation laundering, or hidden accountability
structures that prevent public accountability. Range: -2 to 0.
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-2 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Accountability Opacity relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
|
Surveillance Capture
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Invasive surveillance, unreasonably non-optional tracking, facial
recognition, biometric identification, or AI behavior scanning of
customers, workers, bystanders, or the public. Range: -5 to 0.
|
-1 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Bonus Credits
| Bonus | Credit | Why this credit |
|---|---|---|
Openness to Dissent
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Credit for tolerating internal, user, customer, worker, and public
dissent without retaliation, capture, or viewpoint laundering.
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1 / 3 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
|
Constitutional Spirit
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Credit for respecting constitutional rights and civil-liberties norms
even where private law does not strictly require it.
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1 / 3 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Good Deal
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Credit for unusually fair value: durable quality, fair pricing, low
lock-in, and clear customer surplus.
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1 / 3 |
Mayo Clinic's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability. Linked evidence
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Confidence Basis
Confidence Basis
Confidence is computed from the evidence trail and review state, not typed into the profile by hand.
High 83/100
17 verified linked claims 17 direct axis claims 0 disputed claims 17/17 components covered
This confidence label measures the source-backed evidence trail. AI-scaffolded scores remain tentative until human review.
Claim confidence 16/20
17 verified linked claims
Source quality 15/18
Best source per verified claim, weighted by institutional reliability
Direct axis-specific claims 14/18
17 direct claims across 17 active components
Dispute load 12/12
0 disputed claims on this entity
Recency 10/10
Newest accepted timestamp: May 13, 2026
Reviewer status 7/12
Human-reviewed components score higher than AI scaffolding
Component coverage 10/10
17/17 evidence-bearing components have direct support
Evidence State
Evidence State
Claims and Sources
Claims are the evidence record. Each claim needs a source link, axis category, status, confidence level, and timestamp before it can support a score.
* Tentative scaffolding score. Not human-checked or final.1Mayo Clinic's public record identifies its ownership form, institutional type, or public/private/nonprofit/cooperative structure in the health category.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
2Mayo Clinic's public record indicates whether binding control sits with shareholders, executives, members, public officials, nonprofit boards, residents, patients, or customers.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
3Mayo Clinic's model determines whether money flows primarily to investors and owners or back toward users, members, public value, community services, affordability, or mission delivery.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
4Mayo Clinic's public materials do not show ordinary workers holding full binding democratic control over the institution.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
5Mayo Clinic operates in an everyday-need category where job loss, illness, rent pressure, family-care obligations, tax compliance, utility dependence, or household instability affects bargaining power.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
6Mayo Clinic's product or service can absorb real household, civic, care, housing, energy, or tax-compliance risk, but the record also shows who bears costs when the institution fails or prices rise.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
7Mayo Clinic operates in a market where customers, tenants, patients, taxpayers, utility users, parents, or community members often face switching costs, asymmetric information, or limited choice.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
8Mayo Clinic's core service has practical everyday utility, but its integrity depends on pricing, safety, transparency, access, quality, data handling, and accountability.
- Mayo Clinic aboutOfficial self-description · 68%
9Mayo Clinic's scale or category makes its decisions consequential for ordinary U.S. households, patients, tenants, parents, taxpayers, utility customers, or communities.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
10Mayo Clinic's public record makes Openness to Dissent relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
11Mayo Clinic's public record makes Constitutional Spirit relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
12Mayo Clinic's public record makes Good Deal relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
13Mayo Clinic's public record makes Human Harm relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
14Mayo Clinic's public record makes Policy Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
15Mayo Clinic's public record makes Subscription Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
16Mayo Clinic's public record makes Accountability Opacity relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
17Mayo Clinic's public record makes Surveillance Capture relevant through its ownership, pricing, safety, lobbying, environmental burden, youth exposure, data practices, lock-in, public mission, or community accountability.
- Mayo Clinic annual reportPrimary institutional record · 90%
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