Brookwood Baptist Medical Center is one of America's 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery and Spine Surgery according to a national study by Healthgrades, a leading online resource for information about physicians and hospitals. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at almost 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 32 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions, as well as tracking outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states and the District of Columbia.

The achievement is part of findings released in the Healthgrades 2019 Report to the Nation in which Healthgrades compared Specialty Excellence Award Recipients as a group, to all other hospitals, as a group, and found from 2015-2017:

• Patients treated at hospitals receiving the America's 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery Award have, on average 40.3 percent lower risk of experiencing a complication while in the hospital than if they were treated in hospitals that did not receive the award.
• Patients treated at hospitals that did not receive the America's 100 Best Hospitals for Spine Surgery Award have, on average 1.93 times more likely to experience one or more complications in the hospital than if they were treated at hospitals that did receive the award.

For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 45 million Medicare inpatient records for almost 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide to assess hospital performance in 32 common conditions and procedures, and evaluated outcomes in appendectomy and bariatric surgery using all-payer data provided by 15 states and the District of Columbia.

Healthgrades recognizes a hospital's quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5-star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3-star (not statistically different from expected) and 1-star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories. The complete Healthgrades 2019 Report to the Nation and detailed study methodology can be found at www.healthgrades.com.