BrightStar is the first senior home care franchising company to specialize in both medical, non-medical homecare and medical staffing. BrightStar Care consists of 170+ franchises that provide homecare to anyone who needs it, from children to seniors, and medical staffing solutions to individuals, families and organizations nationwide.
2. BrightStar Makes the Fast 55 List
BrightStar is one of the country's fastest growing, young
franchises based on new unit openings, according to the
2010 Franchise Times Fast 55 list.
3. BrightStar Moves Up the Ranks on Inc.
500|5000 List of Fastest Growing
Companies
BrightStar has been moving up through the Inc. 500|5000
ranks over the past years, ranking #2225 in 2007, #1988
in 2008, #217 in 2009 and now #181 in 2010.
4. BrightStar Becomes First Approved
Franchise System to Receive Credit Facility
from New SBA Guaranteed Lending
Program
BrightStar has become the first franchisor to receive a
credit facility from a new SBA guaranteed lending program
created by Franchise America Finance and The Bancorp
Bank.
7. BrightStar Ranked Amongst the Top 500
Franchises in Entrepreneur's Franchise
500(R)
BrightStar has been named one of the top 500 franchises
in the United States, ranking #152 in Entrepreneur
Magazine's Franchise 500®.
8. BrightStar Care debuted at number 41 after adding 51
new units in the last year. Chuck Bailey, BrightStar's
president, says several factors converged to prime the
growth of in-home care companies, and BrightStar plans to
open 90 locations this year, including units in England,
Ireland and Australia.
10. BrightStar Care earned $100 million in
system-wide sales last year, up from $52
million in 2009. The company projects
sales of $175 million in 2011.
Shelly Sun, CEO of BrightStar Care attributes the
company's expansion to a growing preference among
seniors for home-based health care rather than relocation
to a nursing home or assisted-living facility.