EncounterCare Subsidiary, Building Blocks, Expands Business and Announces Contract for Pediatric Home Nursing Services in Northern California

PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL--(Marketwire - January 17, 2008) - EncounterCare Solutions, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: ECSL), an integrated healthcare company focused on the health information technology, telemedicine, and homecare markets, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, Building Blocks Pediatric Home Health Services has signed a contract with Kaiser Permanente for Building Blocks to provide the nursing care needs for pediatric patients discharged from Kaiser Permanente's facilities who need nursing services at home. With this agreement Building Blocks is expanding into the Oakland, Pleasanton and San Francisco regions of California, which will allow it to adequately service the Kaiser Contract.

In announcing the agreement, Ronald Mills, Sr., President and CEO of EncounterCare, stated, "The Kaiser Permanente contract is significant to the Company because it helps validate the high quality of care that Building Blocks is dedicated to providing its customers. The Kaiser relationship is also important to Building Blocks since it has spent the last two years putting the infrastructure in place to support expansion. Today, Building Blocks stands poised ready to begin an aggressive growth plan, with its Northern California expansion being the first of four new service centers that are planned for 2008. New service center locations are expected to include the San Diego, San Jose, as well as its first out-of-state location in Columbia, South Carolina. Building Blocks has been very active in expanding its sales efforts over the last six months and we expect to have additional key agreements that we can announce in the near future."

EncounterCare Solutions, Inc. (ECSL) headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is an integrated healthcare company that operates its business through two divisions, the Healthcare Technology Division and the Healthcare Services Division. ECSL's operating businesses offer a broad range of proprietary healthcare technology, products and services that address the following large target markets: the Healthcare Information Technology market, the Healthcare Telemedicine market (Remote Patient Monitoring and Electronic Medical Data Exchange), and the Homecare market. www.encountercare.com

Building Blocks Pediatric Home Health Services Building Blocks Home Health Pediatric Services, headquartered in Irvine, California, is a high-tech pediatric home care company exclusively for children, from premature infants to adolescents. Building Blocks is the leading home provider of purely pediatric services in California and offers a broad range of pediatric and neonatal services that include: skilled nursing, home infusion, medical equipment and managed care programs in conjunction with many insurance providers. www.care4kids.com.

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Contact Information: Contact Information: Ronald W. Mills, Sr. President and CEO EncounterCare Solutions, Inc. Phone: 561-776-1222