Chapter 11: John Mendelsohn\u27s Plan for MD Anderson and the First Building Projects The Mays Clinic and the Faculty Center

Mr. Daigneau first reviews the challenge that managed care presented to MD Anderson. He recalls that Dr. Charles LeMaistre put all expansion plans on hold in reaction to the report on managed care submitted by the Sharp Group (the Sharp Report). Mr. Daigneau notes that the Archives contain plans he created to close facilities. In contrast, as Mr. Daigneau explains, Dr. John Mendelsohn arrived and announced the plan to expand the institution by fifty percent. He lists the key people involved in developing the expansion plan and describes how the Master Plan was redrawn to improve space utilization and address the four years of compression created under Dr. LeMaistre. Mr. Daigneau then talks about two new buildings planned \u27the Faculty Center and the Ambulatory Clinic Building (also called The Mays Clinic) ” and Dr. Andy von Eschenbach\u27s role in moving this project forward. He then explains how the new Ambulatory Clinic Building (the Mays Clinic) was designed to maximize clinic capacity. He tells a story demonstrating Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach\u27s role in motivating faculty to move their offices out of the clinics and into the Faculty Center.https://openworks.mdanderson.org/mchv_interviewchapters/1133/thumbnail.jp