The Missouri Orthopaedic Institute of the University of Missouri Health Care System features 42 inpatient beds, 34 surgical faculty, eight nonsurgical faculty, 27 orthopedic residents and seven orthopedic fellows. The department of orthopedics is the largest in the region, providing specialty care including sports medicine, hip and knee, adult and pediatric spine, general pediatrics, skeletal dysplasia, foot and ankle, shoulder, hand, trauma, oncology, limb preservation, regenerative medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation. The department saw over 100,000 clinic visits in fiscal year 2024, and its orthopedic surgeons performed over 10,000 surgical procedures in the same period. Since its establishment in 2010, the institute has undergone an expansion that created space for the Thompson Laboratory for Regenerative Orthopaedics, a translational orthopaedic research lab that generates more than 100 peer-reviewed published articles per year. The institute was also featured on Newsweek‘s 2024 “America’s Best Orthopedic Hospitals” list.
