As the first acquisition in 2022, we are thrilled to be adding the Mint and Lotus brands to our portfolio, which supports our strategy of becoming a dominant player in the locum tenens and advanced practitioner markets

<p>BOCA RATON, Fla.--(<a href="https://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/" target="_blank">BUSINESS WIRE</a>)
--Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. 
    (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CCRN), a market-leading tech-enabled workforce solutions 
    platform and advisory firm, today announced entry into a definitive agreement to 
    acquire the assets of Mint Medical Physician Staffing, LP (“Mint”) and Lotus Medical 
    Staffing LLC (“Lotus”, and, together with Mint, “Sellers”). Mint is a locum tenens 
    staffing agency dedicated to placing the most qualified physicians, 
    nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in temporary positions. 
    Lotus is a locum tenens and permanent placement agency specializing in the placement 
    of anesthesiologists and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Both Sellers staff 
    throughout the United States.
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<p>The Company will purchase and acquire substantially all of the assets and assume certain
     liabilities of Mint and Lotus. The acquisition will be accounted for using the 
     acquisition method of accounting and is not significant. The transaction is expected
      to close in the last quarter of 2022.
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<p>"As the first acquisition in 2022, we are thrilled to be adding the Mint and Lotus 
    brands to our portfolio, which supports our strategy of becoming a dominant player in the 
    locum tenens and advanced practitioner markets," said John Martins, President and Chief 
    Executive Officer of the Company. He continued, "Building scale in this large and 
    growing part of the market allows us to deepen client relationships, and gives access 
    to additional clinicians, which we expect will drive stockholder value."
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<h2> About Cross Country Healthcare</h2>
<p> Cross Country Healthcare, Inc. (CCH) is a leading tech-enabled workforce solutions and 
    advisory firm with 36 years of industry experience and insight. We solve complex labor-related 
    challenges for customers while providing high-quality outcomes and exceptional patient care. 
    As a multi-year Best of Staffing® award winner, we are committed to an exceptionally 
    high level of service to our clients and our homecare, education, and clinical and 
    non-clinical healthcare professionals. Our locum tenens line of business, Cross Country Locums, 
    has been certified by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), 
    the leader in healthcare accreditation, since 2001. We are the first publicly traded 
    staffing firm to obtain The Joint Commission Certification, which we still hold with a 
    Letter of Distinction. Cross Country Healthcare is rated as the top staffing and recruiting 
    employer for women by InHerSights, and Certified™ by Great Place to Work®. 
    For two consecutive years, we have received the Top Workplaces USA award and were recently 
    recognized as a recipient of the Top Workplaces Award for Innovation and Leadership by Energage. 
    We have a history of investing in diversity, equality, and inclusion as a key component of the 
    organization’s overall corporate social responsibility program, closely aligned with its core values
     to create a better future for its people, communities, and its stockholders.
Copies of this and other news releases as well as additional information about Cross Country Healthcare 
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<h2>Forward-Looking Statements</h2>
<p>In addition to historical information, this press release contains statements that are 
    "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 
    1933, as amended, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
     (the "Exchange Act"), and the Private Securities Litigation Reform 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 "will," "could," "expects," 
     "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "suggests," "appears," 
     "seeks," and variations of such words and similar expressions are 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, but are not limited to, the following: our ability to 
      successfully implement our acquisition and development strategies, 
      including our ability to successfully integrate acquired businesses, 
      including Lotus and Mint, and realize synergies from such acquisitions, 
      the effect of potential liabilities, losses, or other exposures in 
      connection with our acquisitions, the potential impacts of the COVID-19 
      pandemic on our business, financial condition, and results of operations, 
      our ability to attract and retain qualified nurses, physicians and other 
      healthcare personnel, costs and availability of short-term housing for our 
      travel healthcare professionals, 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 cyber security risks and cyber 
      incidents on our business, 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, 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, including, 
      without limitation, the risk factors set forth in Item 1A. "Risk Factors" 
      in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
       31, 2021, and in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission
        (“SEC”). You should consult any further disclosures the Company makes on related 
        subjects in its filings with the SEC. Except as may be required by law, 
        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. and its subsidiaries.
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Cross Country Healthcare to Acquire Assets of Mint Medical Physician Staffing, LP and Lotus Medical Staffing LLC