BOCA RATON, Fla., Apr 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq:CCRN) announced today that it is scheduled to make a presentation on Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at 5:20 p.m. Pacific Time at the Banc of America Securities Health Care Conference being held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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 at the same website address through May 30, 2008.

In addition, Cross Country Healthcare is scheduled to participate in the Merrill Lynch Business & Education Services One-On-One Forum on Tuesday, May 13, 2008, being held at the Merrill Lynch Conference Center in New York City.

Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. is a leading provider of nurse and allied staffing services in the United States, a provider of clinical trials services to global pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers, as well as a provider of other human capital management services focused on healthcare. The Company has approximately 4,000 contracts with hospital, 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.

The Company's presentation contains forward-looking statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to future events or conditions or that include words such as "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "plans", "believes", "estimates", "suggests" and similar expressions are forward-looking statements. These 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: our ability to attract and retain qualified nurses and other healthcare personnel, costs and availability of short-term apartment leases for our travel nurses, 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, including from time to time entering into Letters of Intent which may or may not result in the completion of an acquisition, 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 under the caption "Risk Factors" in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 as well as in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and Reports on Form 8-K to be filed during 2008.

SOURCE: Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.

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