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                                                                  EXHIBIT (a)(9)

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.