AMN Healthcare Reports Fourth Quarter and Year End 2007 Results; Provides Full Year 200...( SAN DIEGO Feb. 26 /- AMN Healthca...),Health

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMN Healthcare Services, Inc. (NYSE: AHS), the nation's largest healthcare staffing company, today reported revenue for the fourth quarter of 2007 of $285.9 million. This represents an increase of 0.8% from the $283.5 million reported for the same quarter last year, and a 4.8% decline from the $300.3 million in revenue reported in the third quarter. The sequential decline in revenue was due in part to the typical fourth quarter seasonality of fewer clinicians working over the holidays. Diluted earnings per share for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $0.26, a decrease of $0.03 compared to last year and last quarter. Fourth quarter 2006 diluted earnings per share included a benefit equating to $0.05 due to favorable actuarial adjustments to the professional liability insurance reserve.

Revenue for the full year 2007 was an industry record $1.16 billion, an increase of 7.6% from the $1.08 billion reported for 2006. While the company was able to produce operating efficiencies throughout the year, these were partially offset by direct cost pressures and lower demand levels in the nurse staffing business that caused diluted earnings per share to grow at a slower rate of 2.9% to $1.05.

"During the fourth quarter we continued to see the benefit of the diversified service strategy we have been implementing over the past three years. While economic and market conditions have impacted our nurse staffing business recently, our locum tenens staffing segment continued to experience strong year-over-year growth. We also saw the sustained benefit of initiatives implemented earlier in the year to improve gross margins and drive efficiencies across all business segments," said Susan R. Nowakowski, Pre
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