NEW YORK (Standard&Poor's CreditWire) Nov. 16, 2000--Standard&Poor's today raised its long-term rating on Salt Lake City and Weber County, Utah's revenue bonds-- series 1990, class A and class B; series 1992; series 1999; series 2000; series 2000B; and series 2000C-- issued for IHC Health Services Inc., to double-'A'-plus from double-'A'. The rating reflects: -- The excellent, stable, and deep management team's proven ability to build upon the system's strengths and prudently shepherd the system's resources; -- An impressive market position with dominance of a large, economically robust area, including Utah and southern Idaho; -- A long-standing history of healthy and improving operating and excess profitability that has always met or exceeded management projections, despite pressures that
