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CareStaf, Advanced HealthCare Services, California Nursing Care Change Name to NurseCore

February 15, 2006 (Arlington TX) – Larry M. Carr, chairman and chief executive officer of Computerized Health Care Management Services, L.L.C., the company that owns and supports medical staffing and home care providers CareStaf, Advanced HealthCare Services and California Nursing Care, has announced that the company has unified all affiliates under a single, new name---NurseCore.

Computerized Health Care Management Services, L.L.C. has also changed its name to NurseCore Management Services, L.L.C.

NurseCore, formed in 1996, operated under the names CareStaf, Advanced Healthcare Services and California Nursing Care until early 2006. NurseCore provides qualified nurses and ancillary professionals to medical facilities, home healthcare and private duty in facility customers in several markets in seven states---Ariz., Calif., Colo., Fla., Nev., N.Y. and Texas.

“As the CareStaf name license was expiring in some areas, we realized our goal of bringing our fine family of companies under one name as we continue to grow across the United States,” said Mr. Carr, an industry icon who also founded NurseFinders and several other medical staffing organizations during his extensive career.

NurseCore is a new name, but ownership, management and service remain the same.

“We will continue to provide the highest compensation, benefits, and variety of assignments to our staff,” said NurseCore’s president and chief operating officer, Christina Ruenger Sanders, speaking from company headquarters in Arlington, Texas. “Nurses are at the center – the core – of our business.”

The company selected NurseCore because the word ‘core’ is derived from the French word for heart. “Nurses are the heart of healthcare,” said Mr. Carr.

Larry Carr founded his first staffing office in Houston in 1974. He named the business NurseFinders, weathered the cyclical nature of the industry and prospered, expanding services in each of the core areas: facility staffing, home care and private duty services. The enterprise grew from one to 180 offices within 10 years, and revenues expanded from $0 to $180 million. He then sold to Adecco (NYSE: ADO), the global leader in staffing services with a network of 6,600 offices in 75 countries. He continued as chief executive for several years before departing to run the group of franchises he retained after the sale.

Chris Sanders, a young registered nurse, left the clinical arena in 1984 to find her niche in the staffing and home care industry. She excelled for several years with a Dallas medical staffing and home care agency, rising from field nurse to clinical director to branch director. When that company was sold, Ms. Sanders joined Larry Carr at NurseFinders in 1988 as regional director.

At NurseFinders, she was promoted numerous times, advancing to divisional vice president. In 1995, she once again joined Larry Carr as he was beginning to form what would become Computerized Health Care Management Services by 1996.

Together, they developed and refined the successful model. Computerized Health Care Services, L.L.C., doing business as CareStaf, soon expanded to include Advanced HealthCare Services and California Nursing Care.

Today, as NurseCore, the companies are a thriving, in-demand business with a highly successful, standardized staff relief, private duty and home care service approach localized for different geographic areas---all supported by a responsive, centralized business infrastructure.

“With these basic ingredients, our formula can work anywhere – at an office in Tucson, in Fort Worth, or in Miami,” Mr. Carr said.

In fact, each NurseCore branch is a local office. The majority of medical staffing enterprises in cities and towns across the United States are still owned, run and managed by ‘mom and pop’ proprietors. Virtual offices, internet, or call center systems, attempted by many large national companies, simply do not work, according to Mr. Carr.

“You need local people focused on their own community. It’s a local service, bricks and mortar business,” Ms. Sanders emphasized. “And the best are accessible 24 hours a day seven days a week.” NurseCore recognizes the local value. Local professionals run all NurseCore offices. The local branch employees can focus on recruiting field staff and keeping retention programs in place so that their highly qualified nurses remain with NurseCore.

“If nurses are happy in their work and get the work they want, they will continue loyalty to their local branch,” she said. “Such personal relationships, in their unique communities, are nurtured by direct contact and proximity.”

According to Mr. Carr, variations in staffing demands, statutory requirements from state to state and general economic conditions are at the origins of the cyclical nature of healthcare staffing, internally for institutions employing nurses and assistants and externally for the contract companies that complement and supplement with on-demand staffing. The solution to weathering the cycles is an outside resource such as NurseCore that has a full range of services. Such diversity has kept their business robust and growing.

Similarly, with an increased aging population and with escalating demands for dedicated personal attendants, private duty nursing and home care service requests increase daily.

“We have excellent experience in responsive medical staffing and home care services. We’re ready to accommodate the needs of hospitals and the aging baby boomers,” said Ms. Sanders. “For that group especially, NurseCore’s goal is to become the pinnacle of private duty nursing.”

A name change in the midst of a nursing shortage and very busy branch operations was, at first, rather daunting, Ms. Sanders explained. Yet comments from corporate leaders, local office employees, field staff and clients were very positive in early surveys to test acceptance of the new name, she stressed.

All branch offices across the county will celebrate the change to NurseCore with open houses on the morning of Friday, February 17. The full transition to the new NurseCore name and their new slogan---the heart of healthcare---should take place within a month, according to Ms. Sanders.

“Our philosophy is that nurses are the heart of healthcare. Our model is to find the right people, require and honor high standards, and emphasize the irrefutable necessity of tender loving care and dedication---elements that are just as important as the business aspect of medical staffing,” she said.

“Our local offices excel in finding outstanding, credentialed nurses and other healthcare professionals who keep institutional clients happy and private duty clients satisfied.”

Mr. Carr emphasized that strong leadership, open communications, and giving nurses the opportunities they seek while keeping workloads reasonable and compensation high is the blend necessary for a dedicated field staff. The company plans to hire more talented people for their corporate enterprise and in the field operations. NurseCore anticipates franchise opportunities within the year, allowing local individuals to own their own staffing company with the benefits of the NurseCore Management Services, L.L.C. experience, infrastructure and ongoing support.

NurseCore medical staffing and home care services include Registered Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses, Certified Nurse Aides, Home Health Aides, Therapists, Medical Assistants, Psychiatric Techs, Nursing Assistants, Companions, Live-Ins, and Allied and Medical Office Professionals. In addition, NurseCore professionals offer specialty services in the areas of Medical/Surgical, Critical Care, Emergency Room, Geriatrics, Intensive Care Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care unit, Neurology, Obstetrics/Gynecology, Oncology, Operating Room, Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Pulmonary and Cardiac Care, Psychiatry, and a full range of Home Care services and Private Duty services in facilities.

NurseCore provides 24-hour service, seven days a week through its local offices in Mesa, Phoenix, and Tucson, Ariz.; Santa Barbara, Calif.; Colorado Springs and Denver, Colo.; Clearwater, Fort Myers, Gainesville-Ocala, Miami, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, and St. Petersburg, Fla.; Las Vegas, Nev.; Albany and Syracuse, N.Y.; and Fort Worth, Texas. NurseCore is committed to the ethical and professional provision of compassionate, quality healing services, and leadership in the medical staffing and home care service industries.

For more information, visit www.NurseCore.net or call (817) 649-1166.