...Overview we continue to equalize our long-term ratings on French public hospital group + Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP) with our long-term sovereign ratings on France. This reflects our view of an "almost certain" likelihood of timely and sufficient + extraordinary financial support from the state to AP-HP. we are therefore affirming our '##' long-term ratings on AP-HP. we are also + assigning 'A-1+' short-term ratings to AP-HP. The negative outlook continues to reflect that on France. + PAriS (Standard & Poor's) July 31, 2015--Standard & Poor's ratings Services said today that it had affirmed its '##' long-term foreign and local currency issuer credit ratings on French public hospital group, Assistance Publique - Hopitaux de Paris (AP-HP). The outlook remains negative. At the same time, we assigned our 'A-1+' short-term foreign and local currency issuer credit ratings to AP-HP. we also affirmed our '##' long-term issue rating on AP-HP's 2 billion euro medium- term note...