Health Management Associates, Inc. Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2004 Earnings Release Conference

NAPLES, Fla., April 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Health Management Associates, Inc. announced today it will report results for its second quarter of fiscal year 2004, ended March 31, 2004, on April 20, 2004.

The Company will issue a press release before the market opens on April 20, 2004. At 12:30 p.m. (EDT), the same day, HMA management will host a conference call to discuss results in further detail. All interested investors are invited to participate in the conference call.

Event Title: Health Management Associates, Inc. 2nd Quarter Fiscal 2004 Earnings Conference Call Date: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 Time: 12:30 p.m. (EDT) Call Leader: John Merriwether Call-In number: 877-476-3476 (US/Canada); 706-643-1569 (International)

This conference call will also be simulcast on the Internet, and will be distributed over CCBN’s Investor Distribution Network to both institutional and individual investors. To access the webcast, interested investors should go to http://www.hma-corp.com/ or via http://www.streetevents.com/. Replay of the conference call will be available on the HMA website for 90 days.

HMA is the premier operator of non-urban general acute care hospitals in communities situated throughout the United States. HMA has generated 15 years of uninterrupted operating earnings growth and operates 52 hospitals in 16 states with 7,550 licensed beds.

Certain statements contained in this release, including, without limitation, statements containing the words “believes,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “expects,” and words of similar import, constitute “forward- looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may include projections of revenues, income or loss, capital expenditures, capital structure, or other financial items, statements regarding the plans and objectives of management for future operations, statements of future economic performance, statements of the assumptions underlying or relating to any of the foregoing statements, and other statements which are other than statements of historical fact.

Statements made throughout this release are based on current estimates of future events, and the Company has no obligation to update or correct these estimates. Readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may differ materially as a result of these various factors.

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CONTACT: John C. Merriwether, Vice President of Financial Relations ofHealth Management Associates, Inc., +1-239-598-3104