How far is the nearest pediatric orthopedic surgeon?
Choose a kind of surgeon and a county. The map shades every county in the lower 48 by the drive to the nearest one, and each dot is a surgeon's practice.
Or click any county on the map.
Pick a county to see its drives.
Estimated drive by road from the middle of where the county's residents live. Choose a row to show that kind of surgeon on the map.
Kind of surgeon
About this map
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The numbers
The same data, added up for the whole country.
Children who live far from each kind of surgeon
Each kind of surgeon at a glance
| Kind of surgeon | Surgeons | Typical drive | Children 2 hours or more away |
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"Typical drive" is the drive from the middle county when all counties are lined up from shortest to longest. It counts counties, not children.
About
What this is
maps how long the drive is from each county in the lower 48 states to the nearest pediatric orthopedic surgeon, for 10 kinds of specialist. It also shows where those surgeons practice.
How the numbers were made
The surgeon list started from the member directory of the Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America (POSNA) as it stood on . Each surgeon's role, focus and practice address was checked against hospital pages and other public sources, which left practicing attending surgeons. Most were sorted into one or more of 10 focus areas. Because many surgeons have more than one, that adds up to focus-area listings in all. Surgeons with a general practice count only toward "any pediatric orthopedic surgeon."
Each drive time is an estimate by road from a county's 2020 Census population center to the nearest surgeon of each type. There is one for each of the counties in the lower 48 states that have a population center. (Bedford city, Virginia, has no published center and shows in gray.) The surgeons who practice in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands or Canada are left out of the drive times.
To count children, each county is weighted by its population under 19, million children in all.
Please keep in mind
- If your child is badly hurt or needs care right away, go to the nearest emergency room or call 911.
- This isn't a referral directory, and nothing here is medical advice. Please talk with your child's doctor about where to go for care.
- Being shown here says nothing about the quality of a surgeon or a practice.
- The focus areas listed for each surgeon were assigned when this list was put together. They may not match how a surgeon describes their practice.
- Surgeon details come from POSNA's member directory as of , checked against public sources. Surgeons who aren't POSNA members may be missing. The list also counts only surgeons with a pediatric focus, not every surgeon who treats children. That matters most for hand, tumor and trauma care, where surgeons who also treat adults often see children too. Practices move, so please check directly before you plan a visit.
- The map shows distance only. It doesn't show whether a practice takes your insurance or is seeing new patients.
- Drive times are estimates, measured by road from each county's population center. Your own drive depends on where in the county you live.
Corrections
Spotted a mistake, or want a listing corrected or removed? Write to richard.liu@bcm.edu.
This site
The site shows each county's drive as one of 8 ranges, not an exact number of minutes. It sets no cookies of its own and runs no analytics. The roads, place names and street map load from OpenFreeMap, which draws them from OpenStreetMap. The satellite, terrain and topographic maps load from the U.S. Geological Survey. The map code loads from cdnjs, apart from one small piece that is built into this page.
"Use my location" finds your county inside your browser. The site never sends your location anywhere. Like any county you pick, the map then loads the background map for that area from those services, and the county's code appears in the page address.
Please don't copy or republish the listings on this site.
Source
The data come from a research study, "Geographic Access to Pediatric Orthopedic Subspecialty Care in the United States," which is being prepared for publication. Some numbers here may change before it comes out.