Sutter Health ranked in top five large health care systems

Sacramento’s Sutter Health and its Valley Area division have been named among the top-performing health systems in the country by Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Truven Health Analytics.

The systems were named in Truven’s latest “15 Top Health Systems” study, with Sutter Health and its Valley division ranked among the nation’s top five large health care systems.

Truven gathered data from 338 health systems and nearly 3,000 hospitals.

Sutter Health is affiliated with Memorial Medical Center of Modesto, Sutter Tracy Community Hospital, Memorial Hospital Los Banos and the Sutter Gould Medical Foundation clinics.

This story was originally published May 19, 2016 at 3:13 PM with the headline "Sutter Health ranked in top five large health care systems."