SEC Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Estimated average burden hours per response: 0.5
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* DUCAT LEATRICE (Last) (First) (Middle) NDRI 401 N. MICHIGAN AVE., SUITE 1200 (Street) CHICAGO IL 60611 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC [ UHS ]	5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
	3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year) 09/28/2005
	4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)	6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)	2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)			5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)	6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
			Code	V	Amount	(A) or (D)	Price

Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)	2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)	3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)	4. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)		5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)		6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)		8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)	9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)	10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)	11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
				Code	V	(A)	(D)	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares
Option to Purchase Class B Common Stock	$47.8	09/28/2005		A(1)		10,000		(2)	09/28/2010	Class B Common Stock	10,000	$47.8	10,000	D

Explanation of Responses:

1. Options granted to purchase shares of Class B Common Stock under the Company's 2005 Stock Incentive Plan.

2. 2,500 exercisable on each of 9/28/2006, 9/28/2007, 9/28/2008 and 9/28/2009

	Steve Filton, Attorney-in-Fact	09/28/2005
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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POWER OF ATTORNEY

I, Leatrice Ducat, do hereby designate Steve Filton, Charles F. Boyle and Bruce R. Gilbert to act as my lawful attorneys-in-fact to execute and have delivered on my behalf, with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York Stock Exchange, certain forms as they pertain to my reporting of holdings of Universal Health Services, Inc. Common Stock.

Such necessary forms shall consist of Form 4, Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership and Form 5, Annual Statement of Changes in Beneficial Ownership.

I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorney shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.


/s/ Leatrice Ducat


Signed and dated on this 28th day of September 2005.


The undersigned, Steve Filton, Charles F. Boyle and Bruce R. Gilbert hereby affirm that we are the persons named herein as attorneys-in-fact and that our original signatures are affixed hereto.


/s/ Steve Filton				/s/ Charles F. Boyle



/s/ Bruce R. Gilbert


Signed and dated on this 28th day of September 2005.


COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
COUNTY OF MONTGOMERY

On this 28th day of September, in the year 2005, before me, Celeste A. Stellabott, personally appeared Leatrice Ducat, Steve Filton, Charles F. Boyle and Bruce R. Gilbert, personally known to me and have executed this document in my presence.


/s/ Celeste A. Stellabott	(Seal)
Signature of Notary Public