Children's Hospital Boston has been ranked first in Orthopedics in the U.S. News Media Group's 2009 edition of American's Best Children's Hospitals featured in the August issue of U.S. News and World Report.

At the recent Annual Meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), Mininder S. Kocher, MD, MPH, was elected to the Board of Directors of the AOSSM. The AOSSM is the preeminent orthopaedic sports medicine organization in the world for sports medicine education, research, communication, and fellowship. Dr. Kocher is the Associate Director of the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston and an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America.

Children's Hospital Boston has been ranked as the top pediatric hospital in the country for orthopedic care in Parents magazine's Best Children's Hospitals survey. Children's was rated second overall among the more than 100 pediatric hospitals surveyed, and was among the top five for cancer care and pulmonary medicine.

"Ranking as one of the top Children's Hospitals in the nation is a testament to the unwavering commitment to excellence of our caregivers, researchers, employees and volunteers," says James Mandell, MD, CEO of Children's Hospital Boston.

The rankings were determined through surveys of over 100 children's hospitals across the country. All surveyed hospitals are members of the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI). Hospitals are ranked on their responses to detailed questions about survival rates for childhood cancer, pediatric heart disease, and other critical conditions; their experience in performing certain complex procedures; the depth of the research program; safeguards to prevent medical errors; staffing ratios and quality; waiting times in the emergency department; community outreach; and services that address the emotional needs of sick children and their families.

On Tuesday, October 18, 2005, Video Journal of Orthopaedics (VJO) traveled to Children's Hospital Boston, to film Dr. Mininder Kocher as he performed two ACL related surgical procedures.

Dr. Kocher an Associate Director for the Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Children's Hospital Boston and, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School/ Harvard School of Public performed a hamstring ACL reconstruction and an IT band reconstruction, two procedures recently discussed in Physeal Sparing Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in Skeletally Immature Prepubescent Children and Adolescents, Kocher MS, Garg S, Micheli LJ. appearing in the November, 2005 issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

This 30 minute surgical video, produced and directed by Video Journal of Orthopaedic is made possible through a multimedia alliance formed between VJO and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS). This partnership supplements select print articles reported in JBJS by publishing video supplements focusing on the surgical procedure(s) described within that article.

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