Jewish Hospital was among the Top 15 teaching hospitals with an Orthopedic Residency program in the nation. We are very pleased to be recognized as a leader in the industry. The obvious goal of treatment is to help patients return to a normal life to the greatest extent possible. And these hospitals also are demonstrating lower complications rates and lower costs overall. Two-thirds of women, compared to just half of the men treated for the procedures, remain institutionalized after hospital stays.
Women are more likely to be discharged to a skilled nursing, or other short-term facility.
The study also implies more elderly men may have a spouse at home to provide support. Hospitals with the largest orthopedic programs have the lowest death and complication rates. Hospital performance was based on a computerized review of 700,000 Medicare orthopedic cases. It is one of the nation's only hospitals performing all five solid organ transplants-heart, lung, liver, kidney, and pancreas.