Orthopedics

Rank Hospital U.S. News score Fracture repair score (8=best)

Surgical complications prevention score (13=best) Infection prevention score, overall (42=best)

Patient volume score (24=best) Procedure volume score (26=best)

Nursepatient ratio (higher is better) A Nurse Magnet hospital

No. of best practices (81=best)

% of specialists recommending hospital

1 Boston Children’s Hospital

100.0 8 11 42 23 26 4.0 Yes 79 43.2% 2 Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego 97.1 8 12 42 20 21 3.5 Yes 79 30.1% 3 Children’s Medical Center Dallas-Scottish Rite Hospital for Children 96.8 8 11 41 23 26 3.3 Yes 79 34.6% 4 Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia 96.6 8 11 41 24 23 3.5 Yes 78 38.4% 5 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 94.1 8 12 42 20 26 4.5 Yes 78 15.7% 6 Children’s Hospital Los Angeles 93.6 8 13 37 22 24 3.8 Yes 75 15.9% 7 Children’s National Hospital, Washington, D.C. 90.1 8 13 42 22 20 3.9 Yes 73 6.3% 8 Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston 89.9 8 11 39 24 26 4.2 Yes 80 11.2% 9 Lerner Children’s Pavilion-Hospital for Special Surgery, New York 86.8 8 12 42 14 26 4.8 Yes 79 4.6% 10 St. Louis Children’s Hospital-Washington University/Shriners Hospital 86.1 8 10 41 24 26 3.7 Yes 78 8.4% 11 Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta 85.4 8 10 38 22 22 5.3 Yes 79 11.7% 12 Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora 83.1 8 9 39 24 26 4.1 Yes 70 14.6% 13 Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, Baltimore 81.3 8 11 42 12 16 3.6 Yes 78 4.2% 14 UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles 79.7 8 11 34 20 20 4.6 Yes 77 4.1% 15 Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio 78.7 8 8 39 23 23 3.3 Yes 77 8.7% 16 Mayo Clinic Children’s Center, Rochester, Minn. 77.8 8 11 38 9 15 3.7 Yes 77 3.1% 17 Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland 76.7 8 10 36 20 16 3.1 Yes 79 5.5% 18 Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif. 76.6 8 10 41 8 24 4.3 Yes 68 3.5% 19 UC Davis Children’s Hospital/Shriners Hospitals N. Calif., Sacramento 76.5 8 8 39 21 25 7.8 Yes 76 5.6% 20 Nemours Children’s Hospital-Delaware, Wilmington, Del. 75.7 6 9 39 17 22 3.3 Yes 77 16.5% 21 Valley Children’s Healthcare and Hospital, Madera, Calif. 75.4 7 13 39 21 17 3.8 Yes 78 0.3% 22 Cohen Children’s Medical Center, New Hyde Park, N.Y. 73.8 7 11 40 15 18 4.0 Yes 80 0.7% 23 North Carolina Children’s Hospital at UNC, Chapel Hill 73.6 7 12 42 14 12 4.5 Yes 70 0.8% 24 Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, N.C. 72.7 8 11 41 13 17 3.3 Yes 71 0.5% 25 Akron Children’s Hospital, Ohio 72.1 8 10 38 18 19 3.3 Yes 75 2.1% 25 CHOC Children’s Hospital, Orange, Calif. 72.1 8 11 38 15 15 3.8 Yes 69 1.2% 27 Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago 71.7 8 10 39 12 20 2.8 Yes 66 5.0% 27 UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, San Francisco and Oakland 71.7 7 9 41 12 17 4.2 Yes 75 3.1% 27 UPMC Children’s Hosp. of Pittsburgh-Shriners Hosps. for Children Erie 71.7 7 9 41 22 18 3.3 Yes 73 2.5% 30 Children’s Mercy Kansas City Hospital, Mo. 70.7 8 7 41 21 22 4.2 Yes 76 2.5% 30 Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tenn. 70.7 6 10 40 13 17 3.5 Yes 77 5.1% 31 Intermountain Primary Children’s Hosp.-Shriners Hosps. for Children-U. of Utah 70.6 7 10 39 22 25 3.3 No 73 6.3% 33 Seattle Children’s Hospital 70.5 7 9 41 16 18 3.6 Yes 64 7.9% 34 U. of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, Ann Arbor 69.9 6 10 40 9 19 4.9 Yes 79 2.2% 35 Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Orlando 69.2 8 10 38 11 14 3.0 Yes 73 1.3% 36 Children’s Hospital of Michigan, Detroit 67.6 8 11 38 16 12 2.7 No 73 0.2% 36 New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell, New York 67.6 8 7 39 10 18 4.0 Yes 74 3.9% 36 University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, Iowa City 67.6 6 13 37 11 14 3.5 Yes 64 1.4% 39 Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital at Memorial, Hollywood, Fla. 66.4 8 11 31 20 21 2.7 No 78 1.3% 40 Nemours Children’s Hospital-Florida, Orlando 65.9 7 13 35 15 16 4.4 No 68 3.3% 41 Cook Children’s Medical Center, Fort Worth 65.3 7 12 37 16 13 3.2 Yes 70 0.8% 42 Children’s Hospital of Alabama at UAB, Birmingham 64.9 7 9 41 19 20 3.7 No 76 1.0% 43 Dayton Children’s Hospital, Ohio 64.3 8 8 39 17 22 3.1 Yes 72 1.0% 43 Duke Children’s Hospital and Health Center, Durham, N.C. 64.3 8 8 39 11 12 3.6 Yes 75 0.5% 44 Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, Miami 64.1 8 7 33 23 19 2.9 Yes 77 1.8% 45 Kentucky Children’s Hosp.-Shriners Hosps. for Children, Lexington, Ky. 63.7 6 11 38 10 15 3.2 Yes 72 4.0% 47 Ochsner Hospital for Children, New Orleans 63.3 7 11 37 8 8 2.8 Yes 76 0.6% 48 Riley Hospital for Children at IU Health, Indianapolis 63.0 5 10 39 22 19 4.3 Yes 77 1.1% 49 Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital, Houston 62.5 8 11 37 10 10 3.3 Yes 54 0.2% 50 Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, St. Petersburg, Fla. 61.9 8 6 41 13 10 3.9 Yes 79 1.5%