Healthgrades published its “Specialty Excellence 2027 Awards,” recognizing hospitals for their patient outcomes across 19 specialties, including outpatient orthopedic surgery.
Five hospitals in New Jersey were included in the list, the most of any state. California, Pennsylvania and Texas all had four hospitals make the rankings.
The awards measure hospitals’ performance using Medicare inpatient data from 2023 to 2025 for 31 conditions and procedures. To be ranked, a hospital must have no one-star ratings and at least one five-star rating in the cohort being measured. Read more on the methodology here.
Here are the 50 best hospitals for outpatient orthopedic surgery broken down by state, according to Healthgrades’ rankings.
Alabama
- East Alabama Medical Center (Opelika)
- Huntsville (Ala.) Hospital
Arizona
- Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital (Mesa)
- HonorHealth Scottsdale Shea Medical Center (Scottsdale, Ariz.)
California
- Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Irvine, Calif.)
- Santa Monica (Calif.) UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital
- Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla, Calif.)
- Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City, Calif.)
Connecticut
- Stamford (Conn.) Hospital
Delaware
- Christiana Hospital (Newark, Del.)
Florida
- Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville (Fla.)
- Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health
Illinois
- Anderson Hospital (Maryville, Ill.)
Indiana
- OrthoIndy Hospital (Indianapolis)
Iowa
- Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
Kansas
- Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute (Leawood, Kan.)
- Kansas Surgery and Recovery Center (Wichita)
Kentucky
- St. Elizabeth Florence Hospital (Florence, Ky.)
Maine
- Maine Medical Center (Portland)
Maryland
- Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis, Md.)
- University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Massachusetts
- Baystate Medical Center (Springfield, Mass.)
- Good Samaritan Medical Center (Brockton, Mass.)
Missouri
- Mercy Hospital Springfield (Mo.)
Nebraska
- Midwest Surgical Hospital (Omaha, Neb.)
New Jersey
- AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City Campus (Atlantic City, N.J.)
- Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center (Morristown, N.J.)
- Atlantic Health Overlook Medical Center (Summit, N.J.)
- Holy Name Medical Center (Teaneck, N.J.)
- The Valley Hospital (Paramus, N.J.)
New York
- Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)
- NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
North Carolina
- CarolinaEast Medical Center (New Bern, N.C.)
- Caromont Regional Medical Center (Gastonia, N.C.)
- Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington, N.C.)
Ohio
- Mount Carmel New Albany (Ohio) Surgical Hospital
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma Surgical Hospital (Tulsa)
Pennsylvania
- Chester County Hospital (West Chester, Pa.)
- Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown, Pa.)
- Pennsylvania Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Rothman Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital (Bensalem, Pa.)
South Carolina
- Prisma Health Patewood Hospital (Greenville, S.C.)
South Dakota
- Black Hills Surgical Hospital (Rapid City, S.D.)
Tennessee
- Erlanger Baroness Hospital (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
Texas
- CHRISTUS Mother Frances Hospital-Tyler (Texas)
- Methodist Hospital for Surgery (Addison, Texas)
- St. David’s Medical Center (Austin, Texas)
- Texas Orthopedic Hospital (Houston)
Virginia
- Augusta Health (Fisherville, Va.)
- UVA Health Sciences Center (Charlottesville, Va.)
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