U.S. News & World Report released its “Best Hospitals for Orthopedics” 2025-26 list on July 29, with New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery ranking No. 1 for the 16th consecutive year.
U.S. News analyzed data from more than 4,500 hospitals and ranked the top 50 across 15 specialties, including orthopedics. Read more about the methodology here.
Here are the top 50 hospitals for orthopedics:
Note: Some hospitals were tied for the same rankings.
1. Hospital for Special Surgery (New York City)
2. NYU Langone Hospitals (New York City)
3. Mayo Clinic-Rochester (Rochester, Minn.)
4. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell (New York City)
5. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles)
6. UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco)
7. North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health (Manhasset, N.Y.)
7. Stanford (Calif.) Health Care-Stanford Hospital
9. Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian (Philadelphia)
10. Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center & Orthopedic Hospital (Santa Monica, Calif.)
11. Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush University Medical Center (Chicago)
12. Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston)
13. Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
14. Mount Sinai Hospital (New York City)
15. Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
16. Morristown Medical Center Atlantic Health System (Morristown, N.J.)
17. Cleveland Clinic
18. Scripps La Jolla (Calif.) Hospitals
19. Rothman Orthopaedics at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals-Jefferson Health (Philadelphia)
20. Hackensack University Medical Center at Hackensack Meridian Health (Hackensack, N.J.)
21. Montefiore Einstein (Bronx, N.Y.)
22. Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
22. Long Island Jewish Medical Center at Northwell Health (New Hyde Park, N.Y.)
24. Houston Methodist Hospital
25. Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital (Royal Oak, Mich.)
25. Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest-Jefferson Health (Allentown, Pa.)
25. New England Baptist Hospital (Boston)
28. Duke University Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
29. UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
30. Barnes-Jewish Hospital (St. Louis)
31. St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center (Roslyn, N.Y.)
32. Queen’s Medical Center (Honolulu)
33. Mayo Clinic-Florida (Jacksonville, Fla.)
34. Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai West Hospitals (New York City)
35. Torrance Memorial Medical Center (Torrance, Calif.)
36. Mayo Clinic-Arizona (Phoenix)
37. Endeavor Health NorthShore Hospitals (Evanston, Ill.)
38. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital (Park Ridge, Ill.)
39. AdventHealth Orlando
40. Memorial Hermann Hospital (Houston)
41. VCU Medical Center (Richmond, Va.)
41. Yale New Haven Hospital (New Haven, Conn.)
43. Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital (Lake Forest, Ill.)
44. Baylor University Medical Center (Dallas)
45. Providence St. John’s Health Center (Santa Monica, Calif.)
46. UW Health University Hospital (Madison, Wis.)
47. Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.)
47. Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Irvine, Calif.)
49. Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, Pa.)
50. Penn Medicine Lancaster General Hospital (Lancaster, Pa.)
