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                                                                  Exhibit 3.1(b)

                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       TO
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                        UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SERVICES, INC.

Pursuant to Section 242 of the Delaware General Corporation Law:
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          The undersigned corporation (the "Corporation"), in order to amend its
Certificate of Incorporation (the "Certificate of Incorporation"), hereby
certifies as follows:

          FIRST:    The name of the Corporation is: Universal Hospital Services,
                    Inc.

          SECOND:   The Corporation is the surviving corporation of a merger
                    between Universal Hospital Services, Inc., a Minnesota
                    corporation, and UHS Acquisition Corp., a Delaware
                    corporation. The date of filing of the original Certificate
                    of Incorporation of UHS Acquisition Corp. with the Secretary
                    of State was October 12, 2001.

          THIRD:    The following amendments have been duly adopted in
                    accordance with Section 242 of the General Corporation Law
                    of the State of Delaware:

          Article IV of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended to
          read in its entirety as follows:

                                   "ARTICLE IV

          The aggregate number of shares of stock which the
          corporation shall have authority to issue is 507,000,000
          shares, of which (i) 500,000,000 shares shall be common
          stock, par value $0.01 per share (the "Common Stock"), and
          (ii) 7,000,000 shares shall be preferred stock, par value
          $0.01 per share (the "Preferred Stock"). The board of
          directors is hereby expressly granted the authority to issue
          the Preferred Stock from time to time in one or more classes
          or series and by resolution or resolutions to establish the
          number of shares to be included in each such class or series
          and to fix the designations, powers, preferences and rights
          of the shares of each such class or series and the
          qualifications, limitations and restrictions thereof."

          Article V of the Certificate of Incorporation is hereby amended to
          read in its entirety as follows:

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                                   "ARTICLE V

          The election of the Board of Directors need not be by written ballot."

          Articles VI and VIII of the Certificate of Incorporation are hereby
          deleted in their entirety.

          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned authorized officer has executed
this Certificate as the act and deed of the Corporation, and affirms that the
statements made herein are true under the penalties of perjury, this 14/th/ day
of October, 2003.

                                        UNIVERSAL HOSPITAL SERVICES, INC.


                                        By: Gary D. Blackford
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                                            Name:  Gary D. Blackford
                                            Title: President and Chief Executive
                                                   Officer


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