Healthgrades has released its inaugural list of top hospitals for outpatient total knee replacements in 2023 and 2024, according to a May 9 press release.
The list comes as more Americans are shifting hip and knee replacements to the outpatient setting, with 500,000 Medicare patients undergoing the procedures on an outpatient basis between 2019 and 2021.
Healthgrades based its rankings exclusively on clinical outcomes. Patients undergoing a knee replacement at one of the top 146 hospitals have an 85 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more complications than patients treated at one-star hospitals, according to the release.
The 146 top hospitals for outpatient total knee replacements:
Alabama:
Walker Baptist Medical Center (Jasper)
Arkansas:
Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas (Rogers)
Arizona:
Banner Del E. Webb Medical Center (Sun City West)
Oro Valley Hospital
Yavapai Regional Medical Center (Prescott)
California:
Adventist Health Bakersfield
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage)
El Camino Hospital (Mountain View)
Good Samaritan Hospital (San Jose)
Hoag Orthopedic Institute (Irvine)
Huntington Hospital (Pasadena)
Memorial Medical Center (Modesto)
Mills-Peninsula Medical Center (Burlingame)
Providence Saint John's Health Center (Santa Monica)
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital
Scripps Green Hospital (La Jolla)
University of California San Francisco Medical Center
Washington Hospital (Fremont)
Colorado:
Centura Penrose Hospital (Colorado Springs)
Connecticut:
Hartford Hospital
Lawrence and Memorial Hospital (New London)
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center (Hartford)
Delaware:
ChristianaCare (Newark)
Florida:
AdventHealth Fish Memorial (Orange City)
Cleveland Clinic Martin North Hospital (Stuart)
Doctor's Hospital (Coral Gables)
Sebastian River Medical Center
Georgia:
Northside Hospital (Atlanta)
Northside Hospital Cherokee (Canton)
Northside Hospital Forsyth (Cumming)
Piedmont Augusta Hospital
Piedmont Henry Hospital (Stockbridge)
Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
Saint Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital (Greensboro)
Wellstar Kennestone Hospital (Marietta)
Wellstar Windy Hill Hospital (Marietta)
Iowa:
MercyOne Dubuque Medical Center
Illinois:
NorthShore University HealthSystem Evanston Hospital
The Carle Foundation Hospital (Urbana)
Indiana:
Deaconess Hospital (Evansville)
OrthoIndy Hospital (Indianapolis)
Kentucky:
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center North (Edgewood)
Louisiana:
Christus Ochsner Saint Patrick Hospital (Lake Charles)
Lafayette Surgical Specialty Hospital
Park Place Surgical Hospital (Lafayette)
Specialists Hospital Shreveport
Massachusetts:
Baystate Medical Center (Springfield)
Berkshire Medical Center (Pittsfield)
Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital (Boston)
New England Baptist Hospital (Boston)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Winchester Hospital
Maryland:
Greater Baltimore Medical Center
Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis)
Medstar Franklin Square Medical Center (Rosedale)
University of Maryland Saint Joseph Medical Center (Towson)
Maine:
MaineGeneral Medical Center (Augusta)
Michigan:
Saint Joseph Mercy Chelsea
Spectrum Health Butterworth (Grand Rapids)
Missouri:
Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital (Creve Coeur)
Mercy Hospital Springfield
Missouri Baptist Medical Center (St. Louis)
Saint Luke's Hospital (Chesterfield)
Mississippi:
North Mississippi Medical Center (Tupelo)
Montana:
Saint Patrick Hospital (Missoula)
North Carolina:
Carolina East Medical Center (New Bern)
Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte)
Duke Health Raleigh Hospital
Duke University Hospital (Durham)
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (Pinehurst)
Lake Norman Regional Medical Center (Mooresville)
Memorial Mission Hospital and Asheville Surgery Center
Novant Health New Hanover Regional Medical Center (Wilmington)
Rex Hospital (Raleigh)
The Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (Greensboro)
WakeMed (Raleigh)
Watauga Medical Center (Boone)
Nebraska:
CHI Health Lakeside (Omaha)
Lincoln Surgical Hospital
New Jersey:
Hackensack University Medical Center
Jefferson Stratford Hospital
Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (Plainsboro)
Valley Hospital (Ridgewood)
New Mexico:
Memorial Medical Center (Las Cruces)
New York:
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Hospital For Special Surgery (New York City)
Kaleida Health (Buffalo)
Long Island Jewish Medical Center (New Hyde Park)
Saint Charles Hospital (Port Jefferson)
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center (Utica)
Saint Francis Hospital Roslyn
Saint Joseph's Hospital Health Center (Syracuse)
Saint Luke's Cornwall Hospital (Newburgh)
Ohio:
The Christ Hospital (Cincinnati)
Mercy Health Fairfield Hospital
Mercy Health West Hospital (Cincinnati)
Mount Carmel New Albany Surgical Hospital
Surgical Hospital at Southwoods (Youngstown)
The Toledo Hospital
Oklahoma:
Duncan Regional Hospital
Mercy Hospital Oklahoma City
Oregon:
McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center (Springfield)
Providence Portland Medical Center
Salem Hospital
Pennsylvania:
Lansdale Hospital
Lehigh Valley Health Network-Coordinated Health (Allentown)
Mount Nittany Medical Center (State College)
Reading Hospital (West Reading)
Robert Packer Hospital (Sayre)
Rhode Island:
The Miriam Hospital (Providence)
South Carolina:
Prisma Health Patewood Hospital (Greenville)
Roper Hospital (Charleston)
Self Regional Healthcare (Greenwood)
Tennessee:
Holston Valley Medical Center (Kingsport)
Maury Regional Hospital (Columbia)
Memorial Healthcare System (Chattanooga)
Saint Thomas Hospital for Specialty Surgery (Nashville)
Saint Thomas Rutherford Hospital (Murfreesboro)
University of Tennessee Medical Center (Knoxville)
Texas:
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Hillcrest (Waco)
Baylor Scott and White Medical Center Lake Pointe (Rowlett)
HCA Houston Healthcare Kingwood
Houston Methodist the Woodlands Hospital (Shenandoah)
Quail Creek Surgical Hospital (Amarillo)
Wise Health System (Fort Worth)
Utah:
Saint George Regional Hospital
Virginia:
Centra Health (Lynchburg)
CJW Medical Center (Richmond)
Inova Mount Vernon Hospital (Alexandria)
Lewisgale Medical Center (Salem)
Mary Immaculate Hospital (Newport News)
Mary Washington Hospital (Fredericksburg)
Washington:
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Providence Saint Mary Medical Center (Walla Walla)
Providence Saint Peter Hospital (Olympia)
Saint Anne Hospital (Burien)
Swedish Medical Center (Seattle)
Valley Medical Center (Renton)
Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
Wisconsin:
Aurora Medical Center Summit
Gundersen Lutheran Medical Center (La Crosse)
Mayo Clinic Health System-Franciscan Healthcare (La Crosse)
University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority (Madison)