California has seven hospitals on Healthgrades’ list of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for Outpatient Joint Replacement, the most of any state. Maryland and New Jersey follow with four each, while Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Texas have three each.
Forty-one hospitals have made the list three years running, and one — Community Memorial Hospital San Buenaventura in Ventura, Calif. — was on neither the 2025 nor the 2026 list. Healthgrades announced its 2027 Specialty Excellence Awards Oct. 27.
Healthgrades selected the top 50 hospitals from its Outpatient Joint Replacement Excellence Award recipients based on risk-adjusted complication rates among Medicare patients who underwent outpatient total knee or total hip replacement from 2023 through 2025. Complications counted include those during the outpatient visit and unplanned adverse events up to one year after the procedure. Read the full methodology here.
Here are the 50 best hospitals in the U.S. for outpatient joint replacement in 2027, broken down by state:
Arizona
Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital (Mesa)
California
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
Community Memorial Hospital San Buenaventura (Ventura)
French Hospital Medical Center (San Luis Obispo)
Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Irvine)
Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla)
Sequoia Hospital (Redwood City)
Stanford Health Care Tri-Valley (Pleasanton)
Colorado
Vail Health Hospital
Connecticut
Greenwich Hospital
Hartford Hospital
St. Francis Hospital (Hartford)
Florida
Doctors Hospital (Coral Gables)
Halifax Health Medical Center (Daytona Beach)
HCA Florida Fawcett Hospital (Port Charlotte)
Georgia
Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital (Atlanta)
Indiana
OrthoIndy Hospital (Indianapolis)
Iowa
Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids
UnityPoint Health–Iowa Methodist Medical Center (Des Moines)
Maine
Maine Medical Center (Portland)
Maryland
Frederick Health Hospital
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis)
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)
Suburban Hospital (Bethesda)
Massachusetts
Baystate Medical Center (Springfield)
Missouri
Boone Hospital Center (Columbia)
Nebraska
Lincoln Surgical Hospital
Midwest Surgical Hospital (Omaha)
New Jersey
AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, Atlantic City Campus
Atlantic Health Morristown Medical Center
The Valley Hospital (Paramus)
Virtua Voorhees Hospital
New York
Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)
NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
North Carolina
Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte)
CaroMont Regional Medical Center (Gastonia)
Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington)
Ohio
Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Surgical Hospital (Tulsa)
Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital (Allentown)
Physician’s Care Surgical Hospital (Royersford)
Reading Hospital
South Carolina
Prisma Health Patewood Hospital (Greenville)
Roper St. Francis Mount Pleasant Hospital
Tennessee
Erlanger Baroness Hospital (Chattanooga)
TriStar StoneCrest Medical Center (Smyrna)
Texas
Baylor Scott & White Texas Spine & Joint Hospital (Tyler)
St. David’s Medical Center (Austin)
Texas Orthopedic Hospital (Houston)
Virginia
Mary Washington Hospital (Fredericksburg)
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