St. Francis Hospital (Roslyn, N.Y.).
St. Francis Hospital has a busy orthopedic department, as specialists perform more than 1,000 procedures each year. It was named by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best hospitals in orthopedics for 2014-15 and is designated a Magnet hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center for nursing excellence. St. Francis' chief of orthopedic surgery is one of a small group of surgeons in New York to perform autologous chondrocyte implantation, an advanced procedure to repair damaged articular cartilage in the knee using cartilage cells harvested arthroscopically from the patient.
