Avant-garde Health has released its 2025 “Healthcare Research All-Stars” report, honoring the top 5% of America’s physicians and hospitals based on volume of research. The report recognized eight hospitals as being in the top 5% of hand surgery research facilities in the country.
Read more about the methodology here.
The top hand surgery research hospitals in the nation:
Top 1%
University of Michigan Health System (Ann Arbor)
Top 2% to 3%
Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester (Minn.)
MedStar Union Memorial Hospital (Baltimore)
Top 4% to 5%
Ascension St Vincent Hospital (Indianapolis)
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
Stanford (Calif.) Medicine
UF Health Shands Hospital (Gainesville, Fla.)