Exhibit 99.1

Medical Staffing Network Receives Joint Commission's Certificate of Distinction;
Company Represents the Largest Branch-Based Healthcare Staffing Organization to
                     Receive Joint Commission Certification


     BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2006--Medical Staffing Network
Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: MRN), the nation's largest provider of per diem nursing
services, today announced that it has been awarded Health Care Staffing Services
Certification from The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations (Joint Commission), the nation's oldest and largest health care
accrediting body.
     Medical Staffing Network is the largest national provider of diversified
healthcare staffing services, which includes per diem nursing, travel and allied
health, to achieve Joint Commission Certification for all of its locations.
Medical Staffing Network, with a national branch network of more than 100
locations, completed the Joint Commission's comprehensive review process in
order to earn its Gold Seal of Approval for a second consecutive year. The Joint
Commission's certification process for Medical Staffing Network and its
multi-site locations consisted of an extensive review of corporate, select
virtual locations and unannounced site visits spanning a two-month period.
     Robert J. Adamson, chairman and chief executive officer, stated, "We are
honored to receive this Gold Seal of Approval that covers all of our branch and
corporate locations, inclusive of our nurse per diem, travel and allied
healthcare service lines. We believe that it is evidence of our continued
commitment to being a leader in healthcare staffing industry and the affirmation
of our ability to provide high-quality staffing services. Earning Joint
Commission certification is an achievement resulting from the hard work and
dedication set forth by all of our employees, and we thank them for their
efforts to ensure that Medical Staffing Network surpasses the standards
necessary to meet and exceed expectations."
     The Joint Commission (www.jcaho.org) evaluates and accredits more than
15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States and is the
nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. The
Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval is recognized nationwide as a symbol of
quality that reflects a commitment to meeting certain performance standards.
Currently, 96% of U.S. hospital patients are admitted to Joint
Commission-accredited hospitals. The new Joint Commission Health Care Staffing
Services Certification program offers an independent, comprehensive evaluation
of a staffing agency's ability to continuously provide quality staffing
services. The rigorous standards, which ensure sound management practices and
delivery of quality and safe care, focus on four areas: leadership/business
practices, human resource management, performance measurement and improvement
and information management.
     Adamson added, "We believe client facilities will continue to recognize the
value and benefits of partnering with sophisticated, high-quality staffing
providers that comply fully with Joint Commission standards and will source
their supplemental staffing needs accordingly."
     Pat Donohoe, RN, chief nursing officer and co-founder of Medical Staffing
Network, commented, "It has been a personal and corporate vision to bring
industry-wide, quality-driven standards to the health care staffing industry.
These standards helped ensure that a staffing provider of our scale was measured
by the same standard-setting body as its clients. Receiving the Gold Seal of
Approval for a second consecutive year is a great accomplishment and further
demonstrates to our clients, nurses and allied healthcare professionals as well
as the healthcare community, the high quality standards Medical Staffing Network
has established and adheres to."
     The Joint Commission launched the health care staffing services
certification program in October 2004. Development of the certification program
began in 2003, which included the formation of the Health Care Staffing
Certification Task Force comprised of industry stakeholders. The Joint
Commission has a 12-member advisory council, a panel that includes Ms. Donohoe.

     Company Summary

     Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc. is the largest provider of per diem
nurse staffing services in the United States. The Company also provides travel
nurse staffing services and is a leading provider of allied health
professionals, including radiology specialists, diagnostic imaging technicians
and clinical laboratory technicians.

     This release contains statements that are forward-looking in nature.
Statements that are predictive in nature, that depend upon or refer to future
events or conditions or that include words such as "expects," "anticipates,"
"intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions are
forward-looking statements. These 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
the following: our ability to increase revenues or market share, our ability to
continue to generate significant amounts of cash flow from operations, our
ability to sustain the improved self insurance claims experience, our ability to
attract and retain qualified nurses and other healthcare personnel, the overall
level of demand for services provided by temporary nurses, our ability to enter
into contracts with hospital and healthcare facility clients on terms attractive
to us, our ability to maintain the improvement in the spread between bill and
pay rates, the willingness of hospital and healthcare facility clients to
utilize temporary healthcare staffing services, the general level of patient
occupancy at our hospital and healthcare facility clients, the functioning of
our information systems, the effect of existing or future government regulation
and federal and state legislative and enforcement initiatives on our business
including JCAHO accreditation, our clients' ability to pay us for our services,
our ability to successfully implement our acquisition and integration
strategies, the effect of liabilities and other claims asserted against us, the
effect of competition in the markets we serve and our ability to carry out our
business strategy. Additional information concerning these and other important
factors can be found within our filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Statements in this release should be evaluated in light of these
important factors. Although we believe that these statements are based upon
reasonable assumptions, we cannot guarantee future results. Given these
uncertainties, the forward-looking statements discussed in this press release
might not occur.


     CONTACT: Medical Staffing Network Holdings, Inc.
              Robert J. Adamson, 561-322-1303