Exhibit 99.1

                                  News Release
                               dated May 14, 1998

                          announcing the acquisition of
              Atlanta based MainStreet Healthcare Corporation, the
       acquisition of the Columbia, SC, practice of Allan M. Weldon, M.D.
                 and the second quarter fiscal year 1998 results


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                                  Exhibit 99.1

                                  NEWS RELEASE


            UCI MEDICAL AFFILIATES, INC. COMPLETES THE ACQUISITION OF
                 ATLANTA BASED MAINSTREET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

                 Company Acquires the Columbia, SC, practice of
                              Allan M. Weldon, M.D.

             Company Reports Second Quarter Fiscal Year 1998 Results


Columbia, S.C. - May 14, 1998 - UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. (NASDAQ: UCIA)
announced today that it has acquired the assets of MainStreet Healthcare
Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia for a combination of cash, debt, UCI stock and
debt assumption, effective May 1, 1998. MainStreet, with annualized revenues of
approximately $7 million and with approximately 100 employees, owns and operates
nine primary care medical offices in the Atlanta, Georgia area and two primary
care medical offices in Knoxville, Tennessee. The issuance of the UCI stock is
subject to the approval of the UCI shareholders at the forthcoming annual
meeting.

"UCI's continuing growth through practice acquisitions in both its home state of
South Carolina and in neighboring southeastern states should result in UCI being
recognized nationally as a significant regional player in the physician practice
management industry and thereby further enhance shareholder value," said M.F.
McFarland, III, M.D., UCI's President and Chief Executive Officer. With the
MainStreet acquisition, UCI and its affiliated Doctor's Care, P.A. will employ
approximately 120 full and part time primary care providers.

Concurrent with the acquisition of MainStreet, UCI completed a $1.2 million
private placement of its common stock through Allen & Company, Incorporated, a
New York based investment banking firm. The proceeds will be used for working
capital needs and for the cash portion of the MainStreet acquisition.

UCI additionally completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of
the medical practice of Allan M. Weldon, M.D., effective March 1, 1998. Dr.
Weldon's primary care practice was merged into Midtown Family Practice in
Columbia, SC, one of UCI's Family Medicine Division existing locations.

The Company also announced that revenue for the second quarter of the fiscal
year ending September 30, 1998 increased by 28% to $8,615,000 from $6,715,000
for the first quarter of the fiscal year ended September 30, 1997. Revenue
growth is attributed to both same center increases in patient visits and patient
charges at established centers and to the expansion in the number of centers UCI
operates.

Patient encounters increased to 119,000 in the second quarter of fiscal year
1998 from 95,000 in the second quarter of fiscal year 1997.


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The Company reported a net loss of $174,000 or $.03 per share for the second
quarter of fiscal year 1998, as compared to a profit of $192,000 or $.04 per
share for the second quarter of fiscal year 1997. "Acquisitions such as
MainStreet, where UCI can take over many of the administrative functions such as
billing and collection activities, should allow UCI to more fully utilize the
corporate infrastructure that it has invested in over the past few years. This
will allow UCI and its acquirees to operate more profitably overall," said Jerry
F. Wells, Jr., CPA, UCI's Executive Vice President of Finance and Chief
Financial Officer.

The Company's March 31, 1998 balance sheet reflects an increase in total assets
to $23,234,000, as compared to $20,864,000 at September 30, 1997, while
stockholders' equity at March 31, 1998 decreased to $9,342,000 from $9,488,000
at September 30, 1997.

UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc. provides non-medical management and administrative
services for freestanding medical centers which operate as Doctor's Care urgent
care centers, Doctor's Surgical Group, Doctor's Orthopedic Group, the UCI
Division of Family Medicine and Progressive Therapy Services.

This press release contains forward-looking statements subject to the safe
harbor created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The
Company cautions readers of this press release that 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
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Although the Company's management believes that
their expectations of future performance are based on reasonable assumptions
within the bounds of their knowledge of their business and operations, there can
be no assurance that actual results will not differ materially from their
expectations. Factors which could cause actual results to differ from
expectations include, among other things, the difficulty in controlling the
Company's cost of providing healthcare and administering its network of Centers;
the possible negative effects from changes in reimbursement and capitation
payment levels and payment practices by insurance companies, healthcare plans,
government payors and other payment sources; the difficulty of attracting
primary care physicians; the increasing competition for patients among
healthcare providers; possible government regulations in multiple jurisdictions
negatively impacting the existing organizational structure of the Company; the
possible negative effects of prospective healthcare reform; the challenges and
uncertainties in the implementation of the Company's expansion and development
strategy; the dependence on key personnel, and other factors described in other
reports filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Contact:    Jerry F. Wells, Jr., CPA
            Executive Vice President of Finance
            and Chief Financial Officer
            UCI Medical Affiliates, Inc.
            (803) 252-3661

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