TopN and Rank in OBIEE-Answer

Hi All,
I'm an "OBIEE newbie" and not sure how to use the Topn or Rank function to achieve the desired resullt below.
I have a report that will display the top 10 or 20 (or whaterver # entered by users) of hospitals that have highest # of patients and then a sum of patients from the rest of other hospitals. ex:
Hospitals #patients rank
ABC 1500 1
KLM 1200 2
DEF 1200 2
XYZ 200 10
Other hospistals: 5000
The top 10 or 20 # will be used as a prompt.
Your help is much appreciated !!!
Thanks,
Ty

Hi David,
I did follow John's posting (it's very helpful for a beginner) but I just could not figure out what he did in Pivot table to get the SUM of the one that did not make the top 10 list. If you could show me how to do that :)
Thank you for help!
Ty

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