CareSouth Selected to Manage Parkview Homecare and Hospice

August 31, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARLINGTON, VA--Capitol Partners, one of the Mid-Atlantic region's premier private equity firms, has announced that its portfolio platform company CareSouth Health System has been selected to consult to Parkview Home Health and Hospice, a Fort Wayne, IN home health provider. This contract includes on-site operations consulting, billing/collections consulting in both nursing and hospice as well as marketing consulting.

Based in Augusta, Georgia, CareSouth owns agencies in Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and provides business services throughout the country. It has management contracts with 90 facilities across the country. The company has successfully designed and built an infrastructure to support the management of home health care agencies in an extended geographic area providing management services and information technology for millions of annual patient visits. Its vision is to deliver the highest quality home care services in a most cost-effective manner creating value for our patients and customers.

For further information, contact Capitol Partners at 703.248.9600.