The Hospital for Special Surgery

My surgery will take place Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at the Hospital for Special Surgery ("HSS") in New York City.

HSS has an interesting history having been founded during the American Civil War in 1863 as the Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled (R&C). It was the first and only orthopaedic hospital of its kind in the U.S.

HSS performed 22,666 surgeries in 2008.

During a pre-surgery familiarity class I attended yesterday, we were told that HSS performs 3,500 hip surgeries each year.