Cross Country Healthcare to Present at Bank of America and Merrill Lynch Healthcare Conference

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(Business Wire)--
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq:CCRN) announced today that it is
scheduled to make a presentation on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, at 8:40 a.m. Eastern
Time at the Bank of America and Merrill Lynch 2009 Healthcare Conference being
held at The Palace Hotel in New York City.

Cross Country`s presentation will be webcast and accessible online via the
Company`s website at
www.corporate-ir.net/ireye/ir_site.zhtml?ticker=ccrn&script=2100%20. Through
this link, visitors will be able to access the Company`s presentation made by
Joseph A. Boshart, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Country
Healthcare, Inc., who will provide an overview of Cross Country`s business and
prospects. Replays will be available after the presentation at the same website
address through May 29, 2009.

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. is a diversified leader in healthcare staffing
services. The Company offers a comprehensive suite of staffing and outsourcing
services to the healthcare market, which together include being a leading
national provider of nurse and allied staffing services and multi-specialty
locum tenens (temporary physician staffing) services; a provider of clinical
trials services to global pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers; and a
provider of other human capital management services focused on healthcare. The
Company has more than 5,000 contracts with hospitals and healthcare facilities,
pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers, and other healthcare organizations.
Copies of this and other news releases as well as additional information about
Cross Country Healthcare can be obtained online at
www.crosscountryhealthcare.com. Shareholders and prospective investors can also
register at the corporate website to automatically receive the Company's press
releases, SEC filings and other notices by e-mail.

In addition to historical information, this press release contains statements
relating to our future results (including certain projections and business
trends) that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and are subject to the
"safe harbor" created by those sections. Forward-looking statements consist of
statements that are predictive in nature, depend upon or refer to future events.
Words such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "plans", "believes",
"estimates", "suggests", "seeks", "will" and variations of such words and
similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors that may cause our actual results and performance to be materially
different from any future results or performance expressed or implied by these
forward-looking statements. These factors include, without limitation, the
following: our ability to attract and retain qualified nurses, physicians and
other healthcare personnel, costs and availability of short-term housing for our
travel nurses and physicians, demand for the healthcare services we provide,
both nationally and in the regions in which we operate, the functioning of our
information systems, the effect of existing or future government regulation and
federal and state legislative and enforcement initiatives on our business, our
clients` ability to pay us for our services, our ability to successfully
implement our acquisition and development strategies, the effect of liabilities
and other claims asserted against us, the effect of competition in the markets
we serve, our ability to successfully defend the Company, its subsidiaries, and
its officers and directors on the merits of any lawsuit or determine its
potential liability, if any, and other factors set forth in Item 1A. "Risk
Factors" in the Company`s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
31, 2008, and our other Securities and Exchange Commission filings made during
2009.

Although we believe that these statements are based upon reasonable assumptions,
we cannot guarantee future results and readers are cautioned not to place undue
reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect management`s
opinions only as of the date of this press release. There can be no assurance
that (i) we have correctly measured or identified all of the factors affecting
our business or the extent of these factors` likely impact, (ii) the available
information with respect to these factors on which such analysis is based is
complete or accurate, (iii) such analysis is correct or (iv) our strategy, which
is based in part on this analysis, will be successful. The Company undertakes no
obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements. All references to
"we," "us," "our," or "Cross Country" in this press release mean Cross Country
Healthcare, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliates.

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc., Boca Raton
Howard A. Goldman, Director/Investor & Corporate Relations, 877-686-9779
hgoldman@crosscountry.com

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