Kettering Medical Center named among the country’s top hospitals

Kettering Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics, the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based spinoff of Thomson Reuters’ healthcare business.

It was the ninth time Truven has recognized Kettering as one of the top hospitals in the country, based on its evaluation of the hospital’s performance in 10 areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average patient stay, expenses, profitability, patient satisfaction, adherence to clinical standards of care, post-discharge mortality, and readmission rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.