Healthgrades recognizes 100 hospitals each year with its America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery award, but a select group has landed on the list three years in a row.
Healthgrades uses Medicare inpatient data to measure performance, and its methodology adjusts for each patient's risk factors, including age, gender and medical condition.
Read more on Healthgrades' methodology here.
The following 38 hospitals have won Healthgrades' America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery award in each of the past three years:
1. Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.)
2. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center (Los Angeles)
3. Kaiser Permanente San Jose (Calif.) Medical Center
4. Los Robles Regional Medical Center (Thousand Oaks, Calif.)
5. Palomar Medical Center Escondido (Calif.)
6. Saint Agnes Medical Center (Fresno, Calif.)
7. Santa Barbara (Calif.) Cottage Hospital
8. Medical Center Of The Rockies (Loveland, Colo.)
9. Sky Ridge Medical Center (Lone Tree, Colo.)
10. Christiana Hospital (Newark, Del.)
11. AdventHealth Ocala (Fla.)
12. AdventHealth Orlando (Fla.).
13. Doctors Hospital Of Sarasota (Fla.)
14. HCA Florida Brandon (Fla.) Hospital
15. Ocala (Fla.) Regional Medical Center
16. Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point (Hudson, Fla.)
17. St. Joseph's Hospital (Savannah, Ga.)
18. University Hospital (Augusta, Ga.)
19. Ascension St. Vincent Hospital - Indianapolis
20. MercyOne North Iowa Medical Center (Mason City, Iowa)
21. Kansas Spine and Specialty Hospital (Wichita, Kan.)
22. Anne Arundel Medical Center (Annapolis, Md.)
23. Frederick Health (Frederick, Md.)
24. Mercy Medical Center (Baltimore)
25. The Johns Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
26. Abbott Northwestern Hospital (Minneapolis)
27. Cox Medical Center South (Springfield, Mo.)
28. Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center (Reno, Nev.)
29. Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center Hospital
30. Hospital For Special Surgery (New York City)
31. Crystal Clinic Orthopaedic Center (Akron, Ohio)
32. Tulsa Spine and Specialty Hospital (Tulsa, Okla.)
33. Heritage Valley Sewickley (Sewickley, Pa.)
34. Saint Thomas Hospital for Specialty Surgery (Nashville, Tenn.)
35. Medical City Fort Worth (Texas)
36. Valley Baptist Medical Center - Harlingen (Texas)
37. St. George (Utah) Regional Hospital - River Road
38. Lewisgale Medical Center (Salem, Va.)