Soliant Names 2010 Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals in America

ATLANTA, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Soliant Health, a leading specialty healthcare staffing provider and part of Adecco Group, is proud to announce that San Diego's Sharp Memorial Hospital was named America's Most Beautiful Hospital by Soliant.com visitors.

The contest, which is in its second year, turned this year's choice over to America, and after more than 10,000 votes, Sharp Memorial Hospital took the top spot. Opened in 2009, this $200 million hospital features flowing lines, a curved scroll-style entrance, and a multitude of features designed to make a patient's stay more comfortable including hospital beds that play lullabies and a jade garden for relaxation.

"When designing the new Sharp Memorial Hospital, creating an environment that enhanced the healing process for patients and reduced stress for loved ones was at the heart of the design strategy," said Dan Gross, Executive Vice President of Hospital Operations for Sharp HealthCare. "This represents Sharp HealthCare's continued commitment to provide our patients and families with not just what they need and expect, but what they really want and deserve."

"There is so much emerging data around what a beautiful hospital can do for a patient," said David Alexander, president of Soliant. "Sharp Memorial is the perfect example of what a strategically designed, state of the art hospital can do for the healing process."

While Sharp Memorial Hospital came away as the 2010 winner, there was stiff competition from a number of other amazing hospitals. The top twenty list was rounded out by:

To read more about the winners of Soliant's America's 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals, please visit: http://blog.soliant.com/most-beautiful-hospitals/2010/

To learn more about Soliant Health, visit the company's website at Soliant.com.

About Soliant Health

Soliant Health, an Adecco Group company, is a leading provider of specialized healthcare staffing services to hospitals and healthcare providers. By supplying traveling healthcare professionals on both temporary and direct hire assignments, Soliant Health delivers comprehensive healthcare staffing services to leading facilities across the United States. Soliant's teams of professionals are qualified to fill physician, nursing, therapy, pharmacy, clinical research, imaging, and other healthcare positions.

About the Adecco Group:

The Adecco Group, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is the world's leading provider of HR solutions. With over 29,000 FTE employees and more than 5,800 offices, in over 60 countries and territories around the world, Adecco Group offers a wide variety of services, connecting more than 500,000 colleagues with over 100,000 clients every day. The services offered fall into the broad categories of temporary staffing, permanent placement, outsourcing, consulting and outplacement. The Adecco Group is a Fortune Global 500 company.

Adecco S.A. is registered in Switzerland (ISIN: CH0012138605) with listings on the SIX Swiss Exchange (ADEN) and on Euronext in France (ADE).

About Adecco Group North America:

Every day we provide our clients with the talent they need, and help solve the business challenges they face today – and will encounter tomorrow. Our clients rely on us for a wide range of workforce solutions including:

• Contingent staffing and direct hire recruitment for large enterprise organizations across all skill sets
• Workforce solutions and consulting including Managed Services Programs (MSP) & Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO)
• Career transition and leadership consulting
• Specialty staffing, project solutions and consulting services

Additional information is available through our websites at www.adeccogroupna.com and www.adeccousa.com.

SOURCE Soliant Health