ROCHESTER, Minn. (FOX 9) - Sometimes the biggest impacts come from small and simple ideas. In the case of the organ transplant floor at Mayo Clinic’s Methodist Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, the challenge was to get patients up and walking around after receiving their new kidney, liver, or pancreas.

"The have to be up and moving," said Registered Nurse Cortney Kozel. "They have to be safely moving on their own, so up and walking."

The goal of doctors is to have them walk at least a mile around the transplant floor. Few of them did.

The solution

What they're saying:

The nurses on the medical team came up with the idea of a contest.

"We created a program called the Methodist Mile," said fellow Registered Nurse Rebecca Dahlin. "If a patient walks a mile during their initial transpl

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