Cross Country Healthcare to Co-Ring Nasdaq Closing Bell to Celebrate National Nurses Week 2009
May 08 2009 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (Nasdaq:CCRN), a diversified
leader in healthcare staffing services, announced today it will
co-ring the Nasdaq closing bell on Friday, May 8, 2009, in a joint
ceremony to celebrate National Nurses Week 2009.
Joseph A Boshart, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross
Country Healthcare, will ring the closing bell at 4:00 p.m. Joining
him at the NASDAQ MarketSite on Times Square will be Franklin
Shaffer, EdD, RN, FAAN, the Company�s Chief Nursing Officer who has
been a Registered Nurse for more than 40 years, along with six
Cross Country RNs currently on travel assignments at area hospitals
in New York City.
Mr. Boshart�s brief remarks will recognize the skills,
compassion and tireless commitment of the nearly 3 million
registered nurses in this country and their efforts to help build a
healthy America � one patient at a time.
Sharing the Nasdaq balcony to ring the closing bell will be
Dorrie Fontaine, RN, PhD, FAAN, Sadie Heath Cabaniss Professor of
Nursing and Dean of the University of Virginia School of
Nursing.
In addition to the closing bell ceremony and Mr. Boshart�s
remarks, a Cross Country Healthcare video designed to celebrate the
people who deliver nursing care will play on the NASDAQ MarketSite
Tower at Times Square, the world�s largest stationary video screen.
Beginning at 3:50 p.m., a live webcast will show the closing
ceremonies at www.nasdaq.com/about/marketsitetowervideo.asx.
Nurses Week is celebrated annually throughout the United States
from May 6-12, the birthday of Florence Nightingale, the founder of
modern nursing. This year, the American Nurses Association has
selected "Nurses:�Building a Healthy America" as the theme for
2009.
About Cross Country Healthcare
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 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.
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