• Meridian Expands Edison Respiratory Care Program

(Tallahassee, FL / June 20, 2008) Meridian Healthcare Group, Inc. ("Meridian") has entered into an agreement to extend its management of the respiratory care services at Roosevelt Care Center in Edison, New Jersey through 2011.

Roosevelt Care Center is located on a 20 acre campus in Edison, in the center of Middlesex County, and is owned and operated by the Middlesex County Improvement Authority. The main building in the Roosevelt complex was constructed during the 1930s and is now on the National Register of Historic Places and was named in honor of the creator of that program, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

“Roosevelt Care Center is part of Meridian’s network of New Jersey facilities that include sites in Newton, Summit, South Plainfield, Woodbridge, Princeton and Englewood, said Tom R. Futch, Meridian President & CEO. Meridian has been shaping the future of respiratory care for over four decades and we are pleased to continue to provide services to the residents of Middlesex County.”

Meridian Healthcare Group, headquartered in Tallahassee, Florida, is a nationally recognized leader in the field of pulmonary medicine providing services to patients in thirty-eight states.

As one of the largest providers of contract therapy and disease state management in the United States, Meridian has built a national network of clinical programs in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, outpatient clinics, homecare centers, polysomnography laboratories and respiratory pharmacies.