Several hospitals made their debut on Healthgrades rankings for excellence in spine surgery.
Healthgrades evaluated patient mortality and complication rates at more than 4,500 hospitals and ranked them across 16 specialties, including spine surgery, according to an Oct. 22 news release. The full list of hospitals ranked for spine surgery is here.
Here are the hospitals earning specialty excellence awards for spine surgery for the first time:
California
Adventist Health Glendale
Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center
Providence Saint John's Health Center (Santa Monica)
Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla
St. Bernardine Medical Center (San Bernardino)
St. Mary's Medical Center (San Francisco)
Sutter Roseville Medical Center
USC Arcadia Hospital
Connecticut
Danbury Hospital
Florida
Bethesda Hospital East (Boynton Beach)
Good Samaritan Medical Center (West Palm Beach)
HCA Florida Kendall Hospital (Miami)
Mayo Clinic In Florida (Jacksonville)
Orlando Health South Lake Hospital (Clermont)
Sarasota Memorial Hospital Venice (North Venice)
St. Joseph's Hospital (Tampa)
Georgia
Northside Hospital (Atlanta)
Indiana
Indiana University Health Arnett Hospital (Lafayette)
Kentucky
St. Elizabeth Florence Hospital
Massachusetts
Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Michigan
Ascension Borgess Hospital (Kalamazoo)
Missouri
Boone Hospital Center (Columbia)
Nevada
Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (Las Vegas)
New Jersey
Valley Hospital (Ridgewood)
North Carolina
University of North Carolina Hospital (Chapel Hill)
Ohio
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Pennsylvania
Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center (Johnstown)
Jefferson Abington Hospital
Tennessee
Erlanger Baroness Hospital (Chattanooga)
Parkwest Medical Center (Knoxville)
Texas
Longview Regional Medical Center
Texas Health Center for Diagnostics & Surgery (Plano)
Texas Orthopedic Hospital (Houston)
University Medical Center of El Paso
Utah
Ogden Regional Medical Center