Chicago-based BrightStar Healthcare Expands Caregiving Network to McHenry County
February 2006
Chicago - BrightStar Healthcare, a Chicago-based, full-service healthcare staffing agency, announces the expansion of its caregiving network with the opening of the company's newest corporate location, located at 365 Millennium Drive, Suite C in Crystal Lake, Ill. Responding to the population's growing need for personal care, BrightStar of McHenry County joins three existing locations in the region, serving Chicago, Gurnee, and the North Cook County areas.
BrightStar Healthcare specializes in providing both medical and non-medical homecare to private clients within their homes, as well as supplemental healthcare staff to corporate clients such as hospitals and nursing homes.
"We empower our team to live our values and provide compassionate care and service, anytime, any place," said Shelly Sun, founder and president of BrightStar Healthcare. "BrightStar caregivers strive to improve our clients' quality of life, maintain their dignity, and relieve the stress that their families face on a day to day basis."
About BrightStar Healthcare
Based in Chicago, BrightStar Healthcare is a full-service healthcare staffing agency that provides medical and non-medical private duty homecare and healthcare staffing to corporate clients. Our well-qualified, attentive caregivers provide peace of mind to clients and their families. We work to understand the needs of our clients and provide a customized care plan to match them with a qualified, pre-screened caregiver who is compatible with their needs. Serving the Chicagoland area for more than three years, BrightStar is one of the few home healthcare providers that offers both medical and non-medical homecare. BrightStar is available to all clients 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In January of 2005 BrightStar Franchising was founded.
While senior citizens make up the majority of the company's private duty clientele, BrightStar also works with high-tech pediatric and workers' compensation cases, long term care and Veteran clients, as well as private trust and public guardian payers. The company carefully partners aides with clients based on personality traits, the level of care required and the client's personal preferences.
The only woman-owned franchise in the healthcare industry, BrightStar has recently signed agreements in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and is aggressively targeting markets throughout the country for expansion, including Ohio, Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Indiana. Company plans call for 400 new franchises and 40 corporate locations to open by the end of 2010.
BrightStar of McHenry County can be reached at (815) 356-9888.
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