(CCRN) CFO William Burns Receives South Florida Business Journal Award

The South Florida Business Journal (SFBJ) recognized Cross Country Healthcare’s Chief Financial Officer William Burns with its annual “Turnaround Achievement of the Year” award during their 9^th Annual CFO Awards on Thursday, January 28, 2016.

Cross Country Healthcare President and Chief Executive Officer William Grubbs said, “I am pleased to announce that our company was honored with this prestigious award. 2015 was a year of strong revenue growth and significantly improved profitability thanks to the efforts, energy, resilience and commitment of our CFO, Bill Burns, and all of our employees.”

The SFBJ hosts the annual event to shine a spotlight on the growing importance of financial executives in the economic community. The award recognizes a CFO for strategic brilliance in leading their organization to outstanding growth and was determined by the South Florida Business Journal Editorial Team and a panelist of industry experts. This year’s event, presented by Steven Douglas Associates, took place on Thursday, January 28, 2016 at the Hyatt Regency Pier 66 on the 17^th Street Causeway in Fort Lauderdale.

About Cross Country Healthcare

Cross Country Healthcare, headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, is a national leader in providing leading-edge healthcare workforce solutions. Our solutions are geared towards assisting our clients to solve labor cost 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 6,500 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 for travel and per diem assignments, local short-term contracts and permanent positions. We are a market leader in providing flexible workforce management solutions, including managed services programs (MSP), electronic medical record (EMR) transition staffing, recruitment process outsourcing, predictive analytics, education healthcare staffing solutions, internal resource pool consulting and development, and other consultative services.

Copies of this and other news releases as well as additional information about Cross Country Healthcare can be obtained online at www.crosscountryhealthcare.com.