Healthcare Services (HCSG) 10-K 2009 FY Annual report

Exhibit 32.2

Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley
Act of 2002

In connection with the Annual Report onForm 10-K of Healthcare Services Group, Inc. (the “Company”) for the year ended December 31, 2009 as filed with the Securities and Exchange commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Richard W. Hudson, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to my knowledge:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d), of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) That information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

Richard W. Hudson

Chief Financial Officer

February 16, 2010

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