For Immediate Release

Modern Healthcare Ranks CES Partners
Among Top Search Firms for 4th Straight Year

CHICAGO,  IL;  April 7, 2009—CES Partners, Ltd., has been ranked among the nation’s
top healthcare search firms for the fourth consecutive year.  Modern Healthcare released
the results of its annual survey and leader rankings in its March 23rd edition. The ranking
was based on a 2008 survey of retained executive search firms and the number of
placements of senior-level executives made by each recruitment firm.

 “We’re thrilled to be recognized once again for having sustained
our position as a top healthcare search consultancy,” says CES
Partners’ president Barry Cesafsky.  “This acknowledgement by
the pre-eminent publication for senior healthcare executives is
especially gratifying during this time of economic uncertainty,
demonstrating CES Partners’ status as a ‘go to’ firm for our
provider clients,” Cesafsky said. “Healthcare organization leaders
understand they have choice when selecting help in recruiting their top executives; they call us because they seek both the quality professional service and the personal touch we can provide.”

Cesafsky also added that beyond the quality consulting they receive when partnering with
a boutique firm like CES Partners, healthcare providers are beginning to recognize the
much greater value they provide, since larger firms with significant overhead
expenditures have a difficult time matching the competitive fee schedules of boutique
firms.

“The Modern Healthcare recognition is an added honor, as it shows we can sustain a
leadership position despite the pressures of an increasingly competitive environment,”
Cesafsky pointed out. “We compete very favorably despite our mission to work
exclusively in service to healthcare provider organizations, yet rank alongside many
super-sized consultancies that are not full-time healthcare specialists,” Cesafsky said.
“The results underscore our belief that clients need and want professional search, with
involvement by the search company principals.”

Regarding its consistent appearance in the rankings, Cesafsky confirmed that CES
Partners has enjoyed continuous growth since its founding and has remained strong as a
generalist firm, helping recruit a full spectrum of leaders for provider organizations,
including CEOs, COOs, Senior Vice Presidents, Patient Care Executives, and other posts
in Administration, Operations, Clinical Departments, and Service Lines. Cesafsky also
says that sustaining its top ranking is a testament to the synergy created when CES
Partners forged an Alliance last year with Hersher Associates, expanding their ability to
serve the healthcare Information Technology segment. Hersher Associates, another of the
nation’s leading search firms, has had a long-standing focus on recruiting Chief
Information Officers, Chief Medical Information Officers and other information
technology executives.

About CES Partners
CES Partners is a leading national boutique executive search firm that has been serving
healthcare provider organizations – hospitals, health systems and the senior services
industry – since its founding in 2001. In the years since its inception, CES Partners has
grown to become a recognized leader and now has notched top-ranking status in
healthcare senior executive search for four consecutive years. Despite its growth in
annual volume, CES Partners sustains its boutique character by employing a highly
personalized and professional approach with our clients, many who work with CES
Partners time and time again.  Additional information about CES Partners can be found
by visiting the website: www.cespartners.net.

About Modern Healthcare
Modern Healthcare has been the leading source of healthcare business news since 1976.
The magazine keeps executives current on important healthcare events, issues and trends
as they happen -- in print weekly, as well as through its website
www.modernhealthcare.com.