The risk of infection is the most serious after the surgery, although it is very safe overall. The surgical infection rate for Hip Implants at the hospital or facility where you will have your surgery should be a question you ask your surgeon. Infection rates following hip replacement surgery at HSS are among the lowest, and compared to the national average, readmission rates are also significantly lower. The New York State Department of Health reported in 2015 that only Hospital for Special Surgery had a hip replacement surgery site infection (SSI) rate that was "significantly lower than the state average" for that year, and that those infection rates at HSS had been significantly lower than the state average in each of the seven years between 2008-2014. More than 160 hospitals in New York performed hip replacements in 2014.
