The Best Orthopedic Hospital: OHOW Awards & Recognition
We put our patients first, always, by continuously refining best practices for patient care and outcomes. Our shared uncommon focus on you wins widespread recognition and awards for our quality of care as well as patient and staff satisfaction.
Awards & Honors
- The top 1% in overall patient satisfaction for all U.S. hospitals as measured by Press Ganey
- Winner of the Press Ganey Summit Award and Guardian of Excellence Award every year since 2010. Award winners must rank in the 95th percentile in the Press Ganey database for patient satisfaction
- Named by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of America’s “100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare” 2011-2018, 2021-2023.
- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel award winner as one of the “Top 100 Work Places” from 2013-2021.
- Selected for Becker’s Hospital Review’s “60 Hospitals with Great Orthopedic Programs.”
- Top Workplaces in Healthcare 2021 awarded by Energage
- Hospital Food Fight Contest—“Best Hospital Food in Wisconsin” for 2014
- Women’s Choice Award – America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience by Women’s Certified for 2012-2022 Watch video here
- Women’s Choice Award – America’s Best Hospitals for Outpatient Experience, 2022
- Women’s Choice Award – America’s Best Hospitals for Orthopedics, 2022
- Only hospital in Wisconsin to make the “Medicare Identifies 97 Best Hospitals for Hip & Knee Replacement” for 2013
- Medicare 5 Star Patient Experience Program
- Medicare 5 Star Quality Program
- Healthgrades
- Outstanding Patient Experience Award in 2013 – 2021
- 5 Star Quality Rating Hip Replacement 2017, 2018, 2019
- 5 Star Quality Rating Total Knee Replacement 2017, 2018, 2019
- Patient Safety Excellence Award 2019, 2021, 2022
- America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Joint Replacement Award 2019 – 2022
- Medicare Value Based Purchasing
- #1 in the United States in 2017
- #2 in the United States in 2016
- #10 in the United States in 2015
- Not eligible in 2014
- #32 in the United States in 2013
- #1 in Wisconsin in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017
- Received the Wisconsin Crime Prevention Award for 2016 (Support to City of Glendale Police Department)
- Hospital Food Service – Featured twice in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Food Section
- Becker’s Hospital Review 150 Great Places to Work in Healthcare, 2015
- Becker’s Hospital Review 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Orthopedic Programs, 2019
- Official orthopedic hospital and orthopedic physicians for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Athletics.
- Provides High School Athletic Training for: Cedarburg, Shorewood, New Berlin West, New Berlin Eisenhower, Dominican, Wauwatosa East
- Sponsor Concordia University Press Box, UW-Milwaukee Panther Athletics, youth sports, high school education programs, civic and community organizations
- Sponsor for UW-Milwaukee Panther Athletics: OHOW Center