Fitch Ratings will host a teleconference on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2008 at 2:00 p.m. EDT in conjunction with the release of the special report '2008 Median Ratios for Nonprofit Hospitals and Health Care Systems,' available the same date. The call will be hosted by Jeff Schaub, head of Fitch's Public Finance Health Care team. PowerPoint slides for the teleconference will be available on the day of the call at www.fitchratings.com under the heading 'About Fitch' and 'Teleconference and Online Events'.
Participants should call +1-866-723-3590 five minutes prior to the 2:00 p.m. EDT start time and give the title of the call '2008 Healthcare Medians', or the call leader name Jeff Schaub.' To ensure there are sufficient telephone lines available, use internal conferencing capabilities, if possible, for multiple listeners at a single location.
A replay of the teleconference will be available starting two hours after the teleconference is completed and will be available until Oct. 25, close of business. To listen to the teleconference replay, participants should call +1-800-642-1687. The conference ID number for the replay is '63910257.'
Fitch's rating definitions and the terms of use of such ratings are available on the agency's public site, www.fitchratings.com. Published ratings, criteria and methodologies are available from this site, at all times. Fitch's code of conduct, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, affiliate firewall, compliance and other relevant policies and procedures are also available from the 'Code of Conduct' section of this site.
Contacts:
Jeff Schaub, +1-212-908-0680
Alex
Bumazhny, +1-212-908-0508
Cindy Stoller, +1-212-908-0526 (Media
Relations)
