Why Choose HSS for Your Hip or Knee Replacement?

Unmatched Experience in Joint Replacement:

• Top Ranked in the Nation for Orthopedics
  In its 2007 and 2008 "America's Best Hospitals" surveys, U.S.News & World Report named Hospital for Special Surgery the number one hospital for orthopedics in the nation.
  
  
• Leaders in Joint Replacement Surgery
  HSS performs more knee replacements and more hip surgeries than any other hospital in the nation - over 5000 procedures a year. To date (July 2009), HSS has performed over 40,000 knee replacements and over 47,000 hip replacements, more than any other hospital in the world. HSS also developed landmark designs and surgical techniques for the first modern total knee replacement in the 1970's. Earlier this century, HSS developed the new instruments, surgical techniques and regional anesthesia blocks allowing minimally invasive hip and knee replacement surgery.
  
  
• World Leaders in Regional Anesthesiology
  HSS Anesthesiologists are globally recognized leaders in regional anesthesia. Their innovative techniques help reduce risk and quicken patient recovery. They train other doctors from around the world, including residents from Johns Hopkins and Weill Cornell Medical College.
  

Unsurpassed Safety & Patient Care:

• Leading Specialty Hospital for Musculoskeletal Medicine
  HSS is dedicated exclusively to musculoskeletal medicine. No other conditions or diseases are treated. That means every medical professional caring for you – from the surgeons to the anesthesiologists to the nurses to the technicians – will be an orthopedic expert. And, like you, the other patients will have come to the hospital for life-enhancing orthopedic surgery. HSS patients enjoy the uplifting atmosphere of a specialty hospital where people are experiencing the return to an active, pain-free life.
  
  
• Unique, orthopedic-only operating rooms
  Our exclusive, state-of-the-art operating rooms were custom-designed by HSS surgeons strictly to advance orthopedic surgery. No other kinds of surgery are performed at HSS. Custom technology creates the highest level of constantly sterilizing air filtration to minimize orthopedic surgery's already low infection rate.
  
  
• Nursing's Highest Honor
  HSS is New York City's only two-time winner of Nursing's highest honor: Magnet Status for Nursing Excellence. HSS patients continually cite HSS nurses as remarkable people providing equally remarkable care.
  
  
• Internal Medical Consultations for Every Patient
  Before hip replacement or total knee replacement, all HSS patients are evaluated medically, their risks assessed, and their medications adjusted as needed in anticipation of surgery. Patients are followed after surgery to assist as needed in monitoring their medical status as they recover from surgery. The medical consultant adds to the safety of the procedure by adding an extra level of expertise and vigilance to pre- and post-operative care.
  
  
• Advanced Pain Management
  A specialized team of orthopedic experts will be assuring your post-operative comfort.
  
  
• Leading Musculoskeletal Radiology
  HSS is the world's largest academic center devoted to musculoskeletal imaging.
  
  
• Rapid Recovery Rehabilitation
  HSS Rehabilitation literally wrote the text book on crucial post-operative Physical Therapy: Postsurgical Rehabilitation Guidelines for the Orthopedic Clinician.

Leading Orthopedic Research for the Future

• Setting the Standard for the Nation
  HSS is currently leading the standard-setting assessment of hip, knee, and shoulder surgery techniques and implant design efficacy for the entire nation through the Agency for Healthcare and Research Quality CERTS program. This U.S. Health and Human Service Department's program appoints expert hospitals to assess particular areas of medicine to determine which practices work best for which patients and which may not.
  
  
• Clinician Scientists, Interdisciplinary Research
  Interdisciplinary teams of HSS surgeons, scientists, rheumatologists, radiologists and bioengineers are continually exploring every aspect of joint implants from new designs, new materials and new surgical techniques, to the molecular science of cellular reactions after surgery. Few hospitals have as many clinician scientists: leading surgeons who are also leading researchers.