FEATURE/Dr. E. Rodney Hornbake Named Chief Medical Officer of Olsten Health Services Business.

MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BW HealthWire)--Dec. 1, 1999--

Olsten Corporation (NYSE: OLS) announced today that Dr. E. Rodney Hornbake has been named Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer for the company's health services business. In this new position Dr. Hornbake will evaluate emerging technology, oversee the design and implementation of clinical policies and be the chief medical advisor for the development of new products and clinical protocol for the new health services company being formed.

Edward A. Blechschmidt, Olsten's President and Chief Executive Officer, said "we are very pleased to have Dr. Hornbake joining our team. He is a proven leader in providing solutions to a wide variety of problems facing hospitals, long-term care facilities and physician organizations. His contributions will bring great value to our patients, clients and caregivers now and when we go forward as a new, independent health services company."

Dr. Hornbake, 49, joins Olsten after serving as Vice President and Medical Director of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System for the past three years. Previously he was Chief Medical Officer for Aetna Professional Management Corporation and Chief of Medicine for the Park Ridge Health System in Rochester, NY. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Co-director of the Professional Diploma Program in Managed Healthcare at Hofstra University. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Physicians Evaluating Health Plans Study, a privately funded initiative that is seeking to develop a methodology that practicing physicians can use to assess health plan quality. Dr. Hornbake received his M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh and is board certified in internal medicine and geriatrics.

In August, Olsten announced plans to merge its staffing and information technology services businesses with Adecco S.A. and to split off its health services business as an independent, publicly held company. This transaction is expected to be complete around the end of the year.

The new health services business, which will be named shortly, had 1998 revenues of about $1.3 billion and will be headed by Mr. Blechschmidt, who will assume the roles of Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President.

Olsten Corporation, with 1,500 offices on three continents, is a world leader in staffing services, a significant provider of information technology services and North America's largest provider of home healthcare and related services. The Company operates more than 1,000 staffing offices -- providing staffing solutions and assignment employees to business, industry and government -- in North America, Latin America and Europe under Olsten Staffing Services and related brands.

Olsten's information technology division, IMI Systems, provides design, programming and maintenance of computer systems, including focused solutions for applications management, e-commerce, quality assurance and enterprise support services to clients in North America and Western Europe.

Olsten Health Services, with more than 400 offices in the United States and Canada, provides healthcare Network Services and caregivers for home healthcare, home infusion and other therapies, and marketing and distribution solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device firms.

In 1998, Olsten Corporation achieved revenues of $4.6 billion and employed approximately 700,000 people serving approximately 600,000 client/patient accounts.

Information contained in this news release, other than historical information, should be considered forward-looking, and is subject to various risk factors and uncertainties. For instance, the Company's strategies and operations involve risks of competition, changing market conditions, changes in laws and regulations affecting our industries and numerous other factors discussed in this release and in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from those in any forward-looking statements.