KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., March 22, 2005 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) announced today that it will report results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2005 late in the day on April 27, 2005 and will hold a conference call for investors and analysts at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on April 28, 2005. The dial-in number is 1-877-648-7971.

A digital recording of the conference call will be available two hours after the completion of the conference call on April 28, 2005 and will continue through midnight on May 5, 2005. To access the recording, call 1-800- 642-1687 and enter the conference ID number 5013358.

This call will be available live over the Internet at the Company's web site at http://www.uhsinc.com. It will also be distributed over CCBN's Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. Individual investors can listen to the call through CCBN's individual investor center at http://www.companyboardroom.com or by visiting any of the investor sites in CCBN's Individual Investor Network. Institutional investors can access the call via CCBN's password-protected event management site, StreetEvents (http://www.streetevents.com).

Universal Health Services, Inc. is one of the nation's largest hospital companies, operating acute care and behavioral health hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and radiation centers nationwide, in Puerto Rico, and in France. It acts as the advisor to Universal Health Realty Income Trust, a real estate investment trust (NYSE: UHT).

SOURCE: Universal Health Services, Inc.

Steve G. Filton, Chief Financial Officer, Universal Health Services, +1-610-768-3300