Universal Health Services, Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2008 Earnings Release and Conference Call

A digital recording of the conference call will be available two hours after the completion of the conference call on October 28, 2008 and will continue through midnight on November 11, 2008. To access the recording, call 1-800-642-1687 and enter the conference ID number 68544706.

This call will be available live over the internet at the Company's web site at 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 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 (www.streetevents.com).

Universal Health Services, Inc. is one of the nation's largest hospital companies, operating, through its subsidiaries, acute care and behavioral health hospitals, and ambulatory centers nationwide and in Puerto Rico.

SOURCE: Universal Health Services, Inc.

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