Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> September 23, 1998

Robert M. Kaufman – Carematrix Corporation (cmd)

ROBERT M. KAUFMAN has been Chief Executive Officer of CareMatrix Corporation since August 1, 1997. Previous to that, he was President of the Company from October 4, 1996. He spent from 1973 until July 1996 with Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.P., with the last fifteen years as a partner, specializing in the for-profit health care, real estate and retail/consumer products industries. Mr. Kaufman has significant experience advising companies in the long-term care, senior housing and physician sectors in such areas as business and strategic planning, deal negotiations and structure, public and private financing, real estate development and management. In addition, he was a member of Coopers & Lybrand's mergers and acquisitions group and was on the Board of Partners, the Firm's nationally elected oversight committee. Mr. Kaufman is a member of the Board of Directors of the Assisted Living Federation of America. Profile
TWST: What do you anticipate in your sector of the health care market

over the next several years?

Mr. Kaufman: There are really four: First, the country right now is at

the beginning of