SUPC Superior Consultant Holdings (MM)

Superior Consultant Wins Best Bang for the Buck Award From Frost & Sullivan Superior Ranks Number One for IT Services and Solutions With the Highest Ratio of Value to Cost SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Superior Consultant Company today announced it has received the 2003 Best Bang for the Buck Award from Frost & Sullivan, a global leader in growth consulting. Superior has been awarded this distinction for offering its clients information technology value through its outsourcing and consulting services that provide quality, while staying extremely competitively priced. Superior is only the second company ever to receive this prestigious award. The award, announced in the new Frost & Sullivan report "U.S. IT Outsourcing Markets for Healthcare," recognizes Superior's proven ability to do more with less-delivering quality, affordable outsourcing, management and information technology consulting services and solutions to its clients nationwide. Through interviews with all healthcare IT market participants and extensive secondary research of proprietary data sources, Frost & Sullivan analysts found that Superior ranked number one among competitors in the industry for its ability to provide IT services and solutions with the highest ratio of value to cost. According to Frost & Sullivan, very few players in the industry can leverage consulting and IT solutions based purely upon a holistic healthcare background the way Superior does, by improving the financial performance, as well as business and clinical operations of organizations within the healthcare provider space. Frost & Sullivan also commends Superior for providing its clients with thorough analysis and support through every step of the IT implementation process, thus enabling clients to gain the maximum potential and return on investment (ROI) from their IT service and solution investments. "Superior's key understanding of the provider marketplace enables them to deliver a strategic solution set, allowing healthcare organizations to achieve the levels of productivity they desire," said Vivek Subramany, research analyst for Frost & Sullivan. "Whether it be partial or full IT outsourcing, we believe that Superior's host of services offers an enormous benefit within the market, and believe the company's place will be one of growth in the future." "We are pleased and honored that Frost & Sullivan has presented Superior with the prestigious Best Bang for the Buck Award," said Richard D. Helppie, Chief Executive Officer. "For this honor, we sincerely thank our clients for giving us the opportunity to serve them and demonstrate our capability and value, which we pledge to continue to deliver. We also thank our extraordinary workforce at Superior for consistently providing real value to our clients through quality services and solutions." About Frost & Sullivan Founded in 1961, Frost & Sullivan is recognized as a global leader in growth consulting. Frost & Sullivan Awards are presented to companies that demonstrate excellence in their industry, commending the diligence, commitment, and innovative business strategies required to advance in the global marketplace. Frost & Sullivan rigorously analyzes specific criteria to determine award recipients in a vast variety of market industries and landscapes. For further information, visit http://www.frost.com/ . About Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation Superior Consultant, a leading national provider of outsourcing, management and information technology consulting services and solutions to the healthcare industry, specializes in Digital Business Transformation(TM) services that enable clients to thrive in the information-driven economy. Superior's outsourcing, management and information technology consulting services and solutions help clients plan and execute better business strategies and meet their fiscal challenges while advancing clinical quality. Superior's best practices outsourcing model includes a full range of flexible business process and information technology solutions, including data center services, 24/7/365 network monitoring and help desk services, facility management, interim management, and application outsourcing services. For more than 19 years, Superior has been recognized as one of the most innovative within the healthcare industry and has been rewarded with full and partial outsourcing contracts, thousands of engagements, approximately 150 interim management assignments, and nearly 3,000 clients. For more information on Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation simply dial 1-800-PRO-INFO and enter the Company ticker: SUPC (a no-cost fax-on- demand service) or visit the Company's Web site at http://www.superiorconsultant.com/ . Statements included in this press release which are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as "forward-looking statements" for purposes of the safe harbor provided by Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended by Public Law 104-67. Forward- looking statements may be identified by words including, but not limited to: "anticipate," "believe," "intends," "estimates," "promises," "expect," "should," "conditioned upon" and similar expressions. This release contains forward-looking statements relating to future financial results or business expectations. Business plans may change as circumstances warrant. Actual results may differ materially as a result of factors and events which the company is unable to accurately predict or over which the company has no control. Such factors include, but are not limited to: the award or loss of significant client assignments, timing of contracts, recruiting and new business solicitation efforts, the healthcare market's acceptance of and demand for the company's offerings, demands upon and consumption of the company's cash and cash equivalent resources or changes in the company's access to working capital, regulatory changes and other factors affecting the financial constraints on the company's clients, competitive pressures (both domestic and foreign), economic factors specific to healthcare, general economic conditions, unforeseen disruptions in transportation, communications or other infrastructure components, acquisitions under consideration and the ability to integrate acquisitions on a timely basis. Additional information regarding these risk factors and others, and additional information concerning the company are included in the company's reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. DATASOURCE: Superior Consultant Company CONTACT: Richard D. Helppie - Chief Executive Officer, or Susan M. Synor - Executive Vice President, +1-248-386-8300, both of Superior Consultant Holdings Corporation Web site: http://www.superiorconsultant.com/ http://www.frost.com/

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