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U.S. News & World Report names Hospital for Special Surgery as top orthopedic hospital
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The Hospital for Special Surgery in New York has been named by U.S. News & World Report as the top-ranked hospital for orthopedic medicine in the country.
“We are honored to be recognized nationally as the best in our specialized field for the fifth consecutive year, but what matters most is that patients from 105 countries have chosen Hospital for Special Surgery to help them get back to doing what they love most,” Louis A. Shapiro, FACHE, president and CEO of the Hospital for Special Surgery, told Orthopedics Today. “That is a tribute to the unsurpassed excellence and compassion of the entire HSS family.”
U.S. News & World Report published its first report on hospitals in 1990. Since that time, the report has grown to include 16 specialties: cancer; neurology and neurosurgery; cardiology and heart surgery; ophthalmology; diabetes and endocrinology; ear, nose and throat; pulmonology; gastroenterology and GI surgery; psychiatry; geriatrics; rehabilitation; gynecology; rheumatology; nephrology; and urology.
The list of specialties has changed over the years. HIV/AIDS was removed from the list in 1998 once its treatment had moved primarily to outpatient settings. In 2007, pediatrics was separated from the list and a separate report on pediatric hospitals was developed.
The data for the report are mostly derived from information provided by the American Hospital Association using a metric U.S. News & World Report called an “index of hospital quality,” based on structure, process, outcomes and patient safety. Structural measures include the amount and types of technology provided, the availability of nursing staff, and other patient services. The process of care measures the ways care is delivered, from diagnosis to treatment, prevention and patient education. Outcomes are based on risk-adjusted overall survival. Because mortality is a key factor in the complex weighting system employed by U.S. News & World Report, ophthalmology, psychiatry, rehabilitation and rheumatology are judged using a reputation metric.
To be eligible for inclusion in the report, a hospital must be a member in the council of teaching hospitals, be affiliated with a medical school, or have at least 200 beds and associated staff or at least 100 beds and at least four “key technologies” such as advanced imaging devices, a cardiac ICU and robotic surgery. Other criteria include statistics related to volume and discharge.
A dashboard is available for hospitals to communicate directly with U.S. News & World Report and provide information, download report methodology and read related articles.
Top-Ranked Hospitals in Orthopedics
1. Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
2. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
3. Cleveland Clinic
4. Hospital for Joint Diseases, NYU Langone Medical Center, New York
5. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
6. Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
7. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
8. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia
9. (tie) Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan
9. (tie) Duke University Hospital, Durham, North Carolina