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Curative Health Services Opens New Critical Care Systems' Branch Locations in Virginia, North Carolina and California

Curative Health Services, Inc., , today announced the opening of three new Critical Care Systems' branch locations, in Richmond, Virginia, Greensboro, North Carolina and Chico, California. Each of the openings marks the Company's entry into the respective areas. All three JCAHO accredited locations will provide a broad range of products, related clinical services and disease management support to patients with chronic and acute conditions. In addition, each pharmacy is able to provide ambulatory infusion suite services within their facility for patients and physicians who choose an alternate site for medication administration and clinical oversight.

"We deemed Richmond, Greensboro and Chico as important areas to offer our specialty infusion products and related clinical services to patients and providers," said Paul F. McConnell, Curative's President and Chief Executive Officer. "The addition of these three new branch pharmacies continues the expansion of our national footprint to a total of 44 locations and allows us to further demonstrate our clinical capabilities and services on a local and national level."

About Curative Health Services

Curative Health Services, Inc. seeks to deliver high-quality care and clinical results for patients with serious or chronic medical conditions.

The Specialty Infusion business, through its national footprint of Critical Care Systems' local pharmacy branches, provides products, related clinical services and disease management support to patients with chronic or severe conditions such as hemophilia and other bleeding disorders, chronic or severe infections, gastrointestinal illnesses that prohibit oral digestion and other severe conditions requiring nutritional support, immune system disorders, cancer and susceptibility to respiratory syncytial virus.

The Wound Care Management business is a leader in the area of disease management specializing in chronic wound care management. The Wound Care Management business manages, on behalf of hospital clients, a nationwide network of Wound Care Center® programs that offer a comprehensive range of services for treatment of chronic wounds.

For more information, visit www.curative.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks associated with our acquisition of Critical Care Systems including, but not limited to, integration risks and costs, risks of client retention, and risks associated with the operations of the acquired business, as well as risks in our current businesses such as the substantial level of indebtedness incurred in connection with the acquisition of Critical Care Systems, the potential for termination or non-renewal of a material number of contracts, an inability to obtain new contracts, changes in government regulations relating to the Company's Specialty Infusion or Wound Care Management businesses, changes in the regulations governing third party reimbursements for the Company's services, manufacturing shortages of products sold by Curative's Specialty Infusion business, the impact of competitive products and pricing, the ability to maintain pricing arrangements with suppliers that preserve margins, the seasonality and variability of operating results, the Company's ability to implement its strategies and achieve its objectives and the other risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this release are referred to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed July 29, 2004, as amended, and its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2004, for further discussion of these and other risk factors that could affect future results.

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