Florida has 20 hospitals included on Healthgrades’ Specialty Excellence Awards for Spine Surgery list, the most of any state. The 2026 Specialty Excellence Awards were published Oct. 28.
The Spine Surgery Excellence Award recognizes hospitals that deliver superior patient outcomes in spinal fusion and other back and neck surgeries. Read the full methodology here.
Here are the 100 best hospitals in the U.S. for spine surgery in 2026, broken down by state:
Alaska
Alaska Regional Hospital (Anchorage)
California
Adventist Health Glendale
Adventist Health Sierra Vista (San Luis Obispo)
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Community Regional Medical Center (Fresno)
Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage)
Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose)
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center
Kaweah Health Medical Center (Visalia)
Los Robles Regional Medical Center (Thousand Oaks)
Mercy General Hospital (Sacramento)
Palomar Medical Center Downtown Escondido
Providence Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital
Providence St. Jude Medical Center (Fullerton)
Saint Agnes Medical Center (Fresno)
St. Mary’s Medical Center (San Francisco)
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
Connecticut
Danbury Hospital
Florida
AdventHealth Daytona Beach
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola
HCA Florida Aventura Hospital
HCA Florida Bayonet Point Hospital (Hudson)
HCA Florida Brandon Hospital
HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital (Port Charlotte)
HCA Florida JFK Hospital (Atlantis)
HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami)
HCA Florida Lake Monroe Hospital (Sanford)
HCA Florida North Florida Hospital (Gainesville)
HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital (Brooksville)
HCA Florida Ocala Hospital
HCA Florida Westside Hospital (Plantation)
Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami)
Morton Plant Hospital (Clearwater)
Naples Comprehensive Health
St. Anthony’s Hospital (St. Petersburg)
St. Joseph’s Hospital (Tampa)
St. Mary’s Medical Center (Mangonia Park)
Winter Haven Hospital (Winter Haven)
Illinois
Edward Hospital–Main Campus (Naperville)
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center (Rockford)
Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago)
Indiana
Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital (Lafayette)
Kansas
Ascension Via Christi St. Francis (Wichita)
Maryland
The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
TidalHealth Peninsula Regional (Salisbury)
UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center (Glen Burnie)
University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Massachusetts
Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital (Newton)
Michigan
Ascension Borgess Hospital (Kalamazoo)
Ascension Providence Hospital–Southfield Campus (Southfield)
Henry Ford Health West Bloomfield Hospital (West Bloomfield)
Minnesota
Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)
Missouri
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Nevada
Saint Mary’s Regional Medical Center (Reno)
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)
New York
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)
Maimonides Medical Center (New York City)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
St. Joseph’s Health Hospital (Syracuse)
North Carolina
Haywood Regional Medical Center (Clyde)
University of North Carolina Hospital (Chapel Hill)
Ohio
Kettering Health Main Campus
Mercy Health–St. Vincent Medical Center (Toledo)
University Hospitals Ahuja Medical Center (Beachwood)
Oklahoma
Saint Francis Hospital (Tulsa)
SSM Health St. Anthony Hospital–Oklahoma City
Oregon
Sacred Heart Medical Center–Riverbend (Springfield)
Pennsylvania
Jefferson Abington Hospital (Abington)
St. Luke’s Hospital–Bethlehem Campus)
UPMC Harrisburg
South Carolina
Grand Strand Medical Center (Myrtle Beach)
Trident Medical Center (Charleston)
Tennessee
Parkwest Medical Center (Knoxville)
Texas
CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi Medical Center Doctors Regional
Houston Methodist Baytown Hospital
Houston Methodist West Hospital
Las Palmas Medical Center (El Paso)
Medical City Arlington
Medical City Dallas
Medical City Fort Worth
Medical City Plano
St. Luke’s Health–Lakeside Hospital (The Woodlands)
Texas Orthopedic Hospital (Houston)
Texoma Medical Center (Denison)
University Medical Center of El Paso
Utah
Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital (Ogden)
Saint George Regional Hospital
Virginia
Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center (Mechanicsville)
Henrico Doctors’ Hospital (Richmond)
Reston Hospital Center
Washington
Kadlec Regional Medical Center (Richland)
MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital
Swedish Cherry Hill Campus (Seattle)
