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                                                                      EXHIBIT 99
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NOVACARE EMPLOYEE SERVICES ANNOUNCES SALE OF COMPANY

September 9, 1999 10:32 AM
NORRISTOWN, Pa., Sept. 9/PRNewswire/-- NovaCare Employee Services, Inc. NCES,
a premier national employee services company, or professional employer
organization (PEO), announced today a definitive agreement to sell the company
to an investment group comprising Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc., Fidelity
Ventures Limited and AFLAC Incorporated (the Investors). Under the terms of the
agreement, a new private company established by the Investors will acquire all
the stock of NovaCare Employee Services at a price of $2.50 per share of common
stock.

The purchase will be effected through a cash tender offer to NovaCare Employee
Services stockholders and subsequent merger of NovaCare Employee Services into a
new private company managed by the Investors. The tender offer will commence on
or about September 15, 1999. NovaCare Employee Services has 30,273,782 fully
diluted shares of common stock outstanding.

"After several months of careful review of our strategic alternatives, we are
pleased with this transaction, which partners NovaCare Employee Services with
three firms with extensive understanding of the PEO industry and the resources
and synergies to support our future growth," said Loren J. Hulber, president and
chief executive officer.

Following the merger, Loren J. Hulber will be elected Chairman of the Board and
Craig P. Coy will be elected Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Coy has been Chief
Executive Officer of HR Logic, Inc., a portfolio company jointly owned by
Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc. and Fidelity Ventures Limited, headquartered in
Newton, Massachusetts. Operations of NovaCare Employee Services will remain
intact and the company will, over a six month period, change its name to
NovaSource, Inc.

NovaCare, Inc., NOV holder of approximately 64% of NovaCare Employee Services'
outstanding common stock, also executed a definitive agreement, subject to
certain conditions, to tender its shares in the tender offer at the price of
$2.50 per share.

The tender offer is subject to the approval of the NovaCare, Inc. stockholders
and the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The tender offer is
expected to close during October 1999. NovaCare Employee Services' previously
announced agreement to acquire Unified Management Corporation has terminated and
that transaction will not occur.

NovaCare Employee Services engaged CIBC World Markets to render a fairness
opinion on this transaction.

NovaCare Employee Services, Inc. is a premier national professional employer
organization. The company is an employee services company that provides small-
to medium-sized businesses with comprehensive, fully integrated outsourcing
solutions to human resource needs, including payroll management, risk
management, benefits procurement and management, unemployment insurance services
and human resource consulting services. As of June 30, 1999, NovaCare Employee
Services had 4,084 clients with more than 54,300 worksite employees under
contract located in 46 states.
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Cautionary Statement

Except for historical information, matters discussed above including, but not
limited to, statements concerning future growth, are forward-looking statements
that are based on management's estimates, assumptions and projections. Important
factors that could cause results to differ materially from those expected by
management include management retention and development, management's success in
integrating acquired businesses, in developing and introducing new products and
lines of business and in entering new geographic markets, maintaining material
customer contracts, material changes in the economics of the contracts with
NovaCare, Inc., the ability of the company, its customers and its suppliers to
complete assessment, testing and remediation of Year 2000 issues, adverse
Internal Revenue Service rulings and state regulations with respect to the
employer status of employee services businesses and the company's ability to
implement the employee services business model.

SOURCE NovaCare Employee Services, Inc.


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