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■ 2003—Awarded the Ontario Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the
Year” Program's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Business Summary
■ Portfolio of 70 luxury hotels and resort properties.
■ 17,300 guest rooms.
■ Located in 31 countries in North America, the Caribbean, Europe,
Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and South America.

For financial performance see Figure A-2.

Griffin Hospital
Standing Ovations (Awards)

■ 2006—Fortune magazine’s “Top 100 Companies to Work For”
in the United States ranked Griffin Hospital fourth. It is the highest
ranking ever achieved by a hospital. Griffin is the only hospital in the
country to be named to the prestigious list seven times.
■ 2006—Griffin Hospital president Patrick Charmel received the John
D. Thompson Distinguished Visiting Fellow Award at Yale University.
The fellowship is to bring leaders in health administration to Yale’s
public health school to share their career experiences.
■ 2004—Total Benchmark Solutions awarded Griffin Hospital the “Top
100” Quality Award. The award is based on analysis of data related to
Heart Attack Care, Heart Failure Care, and Pneumonia Care provided
to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) by U.S.
hospitals.

Business Summary

■ 160-bed not-for-profit hospital.
■ 1,240 employees.
■ In 2000 Griffin acquired Planetree (known for helping other hospitals
“personalize, humanize, and demystify the health-care experience”),
which now has 103 members, including New York Presbyterian
Medical Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, and hospi-
tals in Canada and the Netherlands.