HORC Horizon Health Corp (MM)

Horizon Health Corporation (NASDAQ/NM:HORC) today announced that it has established a matching program for employee contributions to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The Company will match on a dollar-for-dollar basis employee contributions made to The American Red Cross or The Salvation Army - up to $1,000 per employee. Ken Newman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Horizon, stated, "Our employees have been contributing to the relief efforts in numerous ways. This program is for their cash contributions, which relief agencies have stated are the most needed form of aid at this time. The devastation from Hurricane Katrina requires a national relief response and the Company and its employees want to be part of that effort." Horizon Health Corporation is a leading contract manager of clinical services for acute care hospitals and employers and an owner of behavioral health care facilities.