Cross Country Healthcare Ranked Amongst the Largest U.S. Staffing Firms

BOCA RATON, Fla., July 19, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Cross Country Healthcare (NASDAQ: CCRN) has been named as one of the Staffing Industry Analysts (SIA) 2016 Largest Staffing Firms in the United States.  This is a tremendous honor for the organization and highlights Cross Country Healthcare's position as a leader in the healthcare staffing industry.  After experiencing 24% revenue growth last year, we moved from #21 in 2015 to #19 in 2016.

Known as an industry leader in data and research, SIA is a global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions.  Requirements to be on this list include generating at least $100 million in U.S. staffing revenue in 2015.  Firms on the list generated $75.7 billion in revenue, making up 56.8% of the total market by SIA estimates.

"The companies featured on this year's report combined to generate $75.7 billion in US staffing revenue last year," said Timothy Landhui, Research Manager at Staffing Industry Analysts. "This marked a solid increase from the $69.4 billion of 2014 revenue featured in last year's report, and provides evidence of overall growth in staffing revenue among large firms."

"Our rise on the SIA 2016 Largest Staffing Firms in the United States list is very important to our organization. It is validation of our commitment to maintaining a leadership position in everything we do. If we do not remain steadfast to delivering the highest quality services and healthcare professionals, we would not continue to grow as an organization", explains William Grubbs, President and CEO of Cross Country Healthcare. "Our ability to ultimately grow revenue is the result of hard-working, dedicated corporate employees that continue to produce results… day-in and day-out."

In addition to having his organization rank on SIA's 2016 list, Mr. Grubbs has also been featured, for four consecutive years, on the publication's list of Top 100 Most Influential People in Staffing.

About Cross Country Healthcare:
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc., headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, is a national leader in providing leading-edge healthcare workforce solutions. Our solutions are geared towards assisting our clients solve labor-related issues while maintaining high quality outcomes. With more than 30 years of experience, we are dedicated to placing highly qualified nurses and physicians as well as allied health, advanced practice, and case management professionals. We also provide both retained and contingent placement services for physicians, as well as retained search services for healthcare executives. We have more than 9,500 active contracts with a broad range of clients in both clinical and nonclinical settings, including acute care hospitals, physician practice groups, nursing facilities, both public schools and charter schools, rehabilitation and sports medicine clinics, government facilities, and homecare. Through our national staffing teams and network of more than 70 branch office locations, we are able to place clinicians on travel and per diem assignments, local short-term contracts and permanent positions. We are a market leader in providing flexible workforce management solutions, which include managed services programs (MSP), internal resource pool consulting and development, electronic medical record (EMR) transition staffing, recruitment process outsourcing, predictive modeling and consultative services.

About Staffing Industry Analysts:
Founded in 1989, SIA is the global advisor on staffing and workforce solutions. Our proprietary research covers all categories of employed and non-employed work including temporary staffing, independent contracting and other types of contingent labor. SIA's independent and objective analysis provides insights into the services and suppliers operating in the workforce solutions ecosystem including staffing firms, managed service providers, recruitment process outsourcers, payrolling/compliance firms and talent acquisition technology specialists such as vendor management systems, online staffing platforms, crowdsourcing and online work services. We also provide training and accreditation with our unique Certified Contingent Workforce Professional (CCWP) program.

Known for our award-winning content, data, support tools, publications, executive conferences and events, we help both suppliers and buyers of workforce solutions make better-informed decisions that improve business results and minimize risk. As a division of the international business media company, Crain Communications Inc., SIA is headquartered in Mountain View, California, with offices in London, England.

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SOURCE Cross Country Healthcare, Inc.