Jan. 2, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Contact: Al Whitehurst, Corporate Communications
CARF
4891 East Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85712
520.325.1044, ext.155
awhitehurst@carf.org

Marvin Mashner accepts seat on CARF Board of Directors

AAHSA president praises Mashner’s ‘leadership in aging services’

Tucson, Arizona — January 2, 2007 — Citing Marvin Mashner’s distinguished career in health and aging services, members of the CARF Board of Directors unanimously voted him to a seat on the eleven-member board. His term expires December 31, 2008. Mashner is president and CEO of ACTS Retirement-Life Communities, Inc., in West Point, Pennsylvania. Since 1977, Mashner has served in key leadership capacities at ACTS, a not-for-profit corporation which operates eighteen Lifecare continuing care retirement communities in five states.

Larry Minnix, Jr., D.Min., president and CEO of the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging (AAHSA), said Mashner is "an avid supporter of accreditation" and acclaimed his "long career in leadership in aging services."

"I hope my experience and exposure to acute care, long-term care, and educational accreditation brings a unique background to the CARF board," Mashner said.

An active member of AAHSA, Mashner was a delegate to the White House Conference on Aging in 2005. He also served two terms as commissioner and member of the financial advisory panel of the Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC) before CARF acquired the commission from AAHSA in 2003.

"My position as commissioner during the transition of CCAC from AAHSA to CARF gave me added insights in developing consistent standards that can serve most industries by focusing on persons served," Mashner said.

Founded in 1966 as the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, CARF International is an independent, nonprofit accreditor of human service providers in the areas of rehabilitation, employment, child and family, community, and aging services. The CARF family of organizations currently accredits more than 4,900 providers at more than 17,000 locations in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and South America. More than 6.3 million persons of all ages are served annually by CARF-accredited providers.

The Continuing Care Accreditation Commission (CCAC), based in Washington, D.C., was founded in 1985 as the nation’s only accrediting body of continuing care retirement communities and aging services networks. CARF acquired CCAC in 2003.

CARF Canada was launched in 2002 as a private, not-for-profit organization serving Canadian providers.

For more information about the accreditation process, please visit the CARF web site at www.carf.org, the CARF–CCAC web portal at www.carf.org/aging, or the CARF Canada web portal at www.carfcanada.ca.

The CARF International offices are at 4891 East Grant Road, Tucson, AZ 85712, toll free 888.281.6531. CARF–CCAC is at 1730 Rhode Island Avenue NW, Suite 209, Washington, DC 20036, toll free 866.888.1122. CARF Canada is at 10665 Jasper Avenue, Suite 1400A, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S9, Canada, toll free 877.434.5444.

The CARF family of organizations is committed to providing equal opportunity in all its employment practices, including selection, hiring, promotion, transfer, and compensation, to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, ancestry, marital status, gender identity, religion, and familial and/or any other status protected by law. CARF promotes the full realization of this policy through its employment practices.