Mayo Clinic Health System will close six of its southern Minnesota locations by Dec. 10 and scale back some services at its Albert Lea campus, it announced Monday.

The closures of the Northridge clinic in North Mankato and clinics in Belle Plaine, Caledonia, Montgomery, St. Peter and Wells are the result of “ongoing efforts to strengthen rural health care delivery and ensure safe, high-quality and sustainable care for generations to come,” according to the Rochester-based health system’s press release.

Additionally, outpatient surgeries and procedures in ophthalmology, gynecology, endoscopy, orthopedics and podiatry will no longer be available at Mayo Clinic’s hospital and clinic in Albert Lea. Those services will instead be available at its Austin and Waseca campuses.

“Albert Lea will

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