McKesson Partnership Inked

January 13, 2003

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ARLINGTON, VA--Capitol Partners, a middle market focused private equity firm, has announced that its portfolio platform company CareSouth Health System has incorporated McKesson's Horizon Homecare software into its Augusta, GA-based data center to provide clients in its business services and homecare divisions with an integrated system for revenue cycle management, point of care, personnel scheduling, telephony, Internet-based physician access and utilization review and management technology.

Horizon Homecare 7.0 includes an array of homecare agency management tools to help CareSouth clients further optimize clinical and financial management by streamlining operating standards for billing, reporting and analysis.

According to T.J. Jubeir, managing partner of the private equity firm "This partnership further enhances our infrastructural capabilities, consistent with our strategy to create the premier homecare company in CareSouth." By leveraging its cost-effectiveness and deep clinical consulting knowledge, CareSouth aims to emerge as not only the premier, regionally-focused clinical homecare company but additionally the low-cost service provider.

"The cornerstone of our operation has been and continues to be managing homecare through superior information," said Rick Griffin, CEO of CareSouth. "We have embarked on an exciting new technology initiative, partnering with the leading homecare technology company in the world, McKesson, which we believe will take our services and products to the highest level possible."

CareSouth owns agencies in Alabama, California, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee and manages operations throughout the country. The need to reduce health care costs and ongoing advances in technology coupled with recent changes in health care reimbursement policies are resulting in new growth for the home care industry. CareSouth's goal is to provide quality care to enable patients to remain in their homes and receive the medical care and support they need.

For further information, contact Capitol Partners at 703.248.9600.