ROCHESTER, Minn.- Union members, retired physicians and community advocates participated in a call out demonstration at Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Campus on Thursday, Sept. 25.

The protest was in response to Mayo Clinic's announcement it will be closing campuses in Belle Plaine, Caledonia, North Mankato, St. Peter and Wells effective Dec. 10.

Aleta Borrud, a retired physician, said the move could be harmful to a variety of patients in greater Minnesota who might be unwilling to go farther away for health care.

"Mayo is reducing access to people with the least ability to pay, rural people are traditionally older, sicker, poorer," Borrud said.

In addition to those rural campuses the clinic announced it would be closing surgery, ophthalmology, orthopedics/podiatry, endoscopy and gynecolo

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