ROCHESTER, Minn.- People in the North Iowa-Southern Minnesota region are well aware of the success of Rochester’s Mayo Clinic.
Now those around the country are finding out why it's known worldwide for its high level of healthcare. On Wednesday Dylan Ratigan filmed his MSNBC show live from Rochester.
It was lights camera action as a cable news network takes over Mayo Clinic's Plummer Library.
It's all part of Ratigan's Steel on Wheels Tour.
"Not just the Mayo Clinic, but highlight things in this country, that represent the country at its best, and we really looked at what's going on here as one of a string of examples of things that represent people just working together to solve problems," Ratigan said.
On this leg of the tour, he's highlighting education, infrastructure, and healthcare. Ratigan says he's choosing the Mayo Clinic because of its strong reputation.
"The real differentiating factor at Mayo, is it's culture and it is its system, and it's a system in which people work as a team as a group to solve problems," Ratigan said.
Ratigan and his producers say it's not always about developing new healthcare strategies, but implementing more of the strategies that are already working.
"I hope that the audience will get an understanding of not only, it can be done better, but it is being done better and we just want to get more of it," Ratigan said.
"Our goal is to say, ya, America has a lot of problems, but there are a lot of places where people are doing things right, we think that the Mayo Clinic is one of them," Executive Producer Steve Friedman.
During the trip the “The Dylan Ratigan Show” is also taking a look at what makes the Midwest a great place to live, and finding out what “Minnesota Nice” really means.
"One of our producers Abby she dropped her earring at the hotel this morning and didn't know where it was, well 20 minutes later a lady picked it up and gave it to her, If we were in New York that would have already been in the pawn shop,” said Friedman.
"What's with all the reading and volunteering around here, it's a culture that exists already in this country that we just really want to highlight," said Ratigan.
Ratigan will take his show on the road again tomorrow when he heads to Omaha, Nebraska to discuss healthcare.
Among those who appeared on Wednesday’s show include the former Mayor of Minneapolis and the head of the American Health Association.
