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Comprehensive Care Announces the Appointment of Outside Board Member.


Business Editors/Health & Medical Writers

TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2002

Comprehensive Care Corporation (OTCBB OTCBB

See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB).
:CHCR CHCR Center for Health Care Rights ), today announced the appointment of Howard A. Savin savin

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, Ph.D. to join the Board of Directors. Dr. Savin is a psychologist with over 20 years of experience in the behavioral health Behavioral health was first used in the 1980's to name the combination of the fields mental health and substance abuse. As an example, an organization serving both mental health and substance abuse clients might refer to its practice as behavioral health or  industry, including managed behavioral healthcare, administration, and clinical practice.

Dr. Savin is the current Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs at the Devereux Foundation where he has served since July 1995. He has also served as Vice President of Medco Behavioral Care Corp., which later became Merit Behavioral Health and Magellan.

"We are very excited and honored to have Dr. Savin join the company's Board of Directors," said Mary Jane Johnson Jane Johnson may refer to:
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  • Jane Johnson (writer) (born 1960), English author
  • Jane Clayson Johnson (born 1967), American journalist
, President and Chief Executive Officer. "He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience that will be valuable to the Company as we continue to grow."

Comprehensive Care Corporation, headquartered in Tampa, Florida, administers and operates behavioral health, substance abuse, and employee assistance programs for governmental agencies and managed care companies throughout the United States. The company serves more than 1,100,000 members nationwide and has a network of approximately 5,600 behavioral health practitioners.

"Safe Harbor Safe Harbor

1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated.

2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive.
" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and  of 1995:

Certain information included herein and in other Company reports, SEC filings, statements, and presentations is forward looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements concerning the Company's anticipated operating results, financial resources, increases in revenues, increased profitability, interest expense, growth and expansion, and the ability to obtain new behavioral healthcare contracts. Such forward-looking information involves important risks and uncertainties that could significantly affect actual results and cause them to differ materially from expectations expressed herein and in other Company reports, SEC filings, statements, and presentations. These risks and uncertainties include local, regional, and national economic and political conditions, the effect of governmental regulation, the competitive environment in which the Company operates, and other risks detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports.
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