CES Partners Repeats Among Top-Ranked

Healthcare Senior-Level Search Firms

CHICAGO,  IL;  March 20, 2008-CES Partners, Ltd., a boutique executive search firm,
has been ranked among the nation's top healthcare search firms for the second
consecutive year.  Modern Healthcare released the results of its third annual survey
and leader rankings in its March 10 edition. The ranking was based on 2007 survey of
retained healthcare executive search firms and the number of placements of
senior-level executives (senior VP and above) made by each recruitment firm.

"We're pleased to be recognized for the accomplishments of our young and growing
consultancy," says CES Partners' president and founder Barry Cesafsky.  
"The report is an acknowledgement of our strengthening presence in healthcare
and an honor that punctuates the fact that we have attained the critical mass
needed to compete with firms much larger than CES Partners. We are large
enough and deep enough to provide quality executive recruitment service to
increasingly complex healthcare provider organizations throughout the nation."
says Cesafsky.

"This ranking by the pre-eminent publication for senior executives in healthcare
and one of their most trusted sources of information also underscores our belief
that clients need and want professional search with a personal touch and involvement by the search company principals."

Regarding its rise and appearance in the rankings the past two years, Cesafsky
confirmed that CES Partners has enjoyed continuous growth since its founding
in 2001. He attributes the growth mainly to a professional staff that all have
healthcare experience.  "Our staff has more than a century of combined
healthcare experience, and we all share the same core values -- of excellence
in process, integrity, and the importance of partnerships that healthcare provider organizations have come to trust and rely upon."

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 30
rankings in healthcare senior executive search two consecutive years, as published by
Modern Healthcare magazine. 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.  

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 their daily e-newsletter,
Daily Dose, and through its website www.modernhealthcare.com. For more information
about the publication's By The Numbers reports contact research editor
Rebecca Mielcarski, 312.397.5511, or rmielcarski@crain.com