Your Advantage

What Makes BrightStar a Great Health Care Franchise Opportunity?

Seven Key Advantages that Only BrightStar Offers:

1. Make a Difference

With a home health care franchise, you will make a positive difference in the lives of many different people. You will help others retain their dignity and remain as independent as possible. This is one of the few businesses where you can feel great about it and know that you will have an immediate and profound effect on many different people. The feeling we get when we are able to be of service to our clients is indescribable.

2. A Booming Market

The future is very bright. BrightStar provides services to the largest and fastest growing market segment in the U.S.-seniors! The need for our services and home health care & medical franchises are growing rapidly and the senior population is a group with much greater than average healthcare needs. 7000 people a day turn 65. This segment of the market is growing faster than the total population, increasing the demand for home health services and all types of senior care.

By 2012, there will be more than 40 million people over the age of 65. This segment of people will continue to grow and increasingly need some form of assistance. By 2030, there will be over 70 million people over the age of 65. This means that 1 out of 5 people will be a potential client for a senior care franchise!

Furthermore, with the aging population, there is a shortage of healthcare staff such as nurses. You will be able to help corporate clients maintain their healthcare staffing levels and meet the needs of their clients. BrightStar Healthcare is one of the few companies to serve both private and corporate clients. That means your health care & medical franchises will be able reach a larger number of clients and have the opportunity to achieve higher profits.

3. A Proven Business Model

We had three company locations in the Chicagoland area by the end of 2006 and 27 open franchise locations by the end of 2007. We will have 94 locations open by the end of 2008.  There is a reason why we are continuing to open company owned health care franchise locations, we know it's a great business! We invite you to analyze our UFOC Item 19 to draw your own conclusions.

4. Three Revenue Streams - Home Care, Staffing and National Accounts

With BrightStar's home health care franchise, you will be able to reach more clients. You will offer medical and non-medical homecare. Also, you will be able to reach more potential clients as you will be able to take insurance cases and provide high-tech care which is much more lucrative.  We offer three types of home care - non-medical care that includes companionship and transportation; personal care that includes bathing and assistance with the activities of daily living; and skilled medical care that includes invasive care handled by RN's and LPN's.

Additionally, you will provide supplemental staff to businesses. Providing staff to businesses is typically three times more profitable per hour than homecare.

Lastly, we have a dedicated focus on bringing revenue to our franchisees through national accounts.  We have over 30 opportunities today with 20 more coming in the next 90 days.

5. Technology

Our web-based management system is very powerful and easy to use. No other company offers anything like it. We built our system to allow us to continue to expand. Managing two - let alone three offices - without our system would be impossible.

Our system integrates almost every function that relates to running your health care franchise. It will allow you to spend your time focusing on sales and not the paperwork! Also, our system will allow you to practically run your business from anywhere in the world.

You will know exactly where your business is at each moment, no matter where you are. Imagine the possibilities if you choose to hire people to fill all of the office positions. What will you do with your extra time? Open additional health care and medical franchises? We hope so!

6. Training

We offer the best training in the business and will allow you to feel confident starting your own business. After signing on with us, we will give you a checklist that will help you open your senior care franchise. Everything from licensing, insurance, and telephone service are all included. You will attend a 4-day new owner boot camp to introduce you to the industry and prepare you for all of the tasks to get opened. 

Once you are ready to open, you will return for 9-days of training where you will learn everything about running your BrightStar health care franchise. You will receive all of your operations manuals at this time. You will learn how to recruit clients and staff. You will learn how to answer the phones, how to screen caregivers, and how to find business. Of course, you will learn how to use the management system and begin to harness its power.  We also train your branch manager with a specialized training course that is 5 days with a strong focus on clinical practices, technology and recruiting.

Around the time of your opening, a member of our team will then travel to your office to provide sales assistance and support for two full days that will help you establish your medical franchise. Of course daily e-mail and phone support are included. We will do everything to help get you up and running quickly!

7. Support

Our relationship will not end after you open your doors. We will always be at your service. We will always be available to you by phone and e-mail. We provide you a sounding board and a regional manager to assist you. Every year we will conduct a national conference. Also, we are constantly updating our techniques in order to be as competitive as possible. We are here to help your business perform. We respect your needs and dreams and will be there to support you every step of the way.

Let's get started, contact us today!