BrightStar Care shares tips on how to make babysitting a breeze

BrightStar Care understands how overwhelming the responsibility of caring for a family member can be. The company was established in 2002 after its founders, JD and Shelly Sun, failed to find quality care giving services for a loved one. Starting out as a family business, the company now operates in more than 250 locations nationwide, providing the full continuum of home care, medical staffing, and child care for anyone who might need it.

Child care can be very stressful if you’re a parent who worries about leaving your children with “strangers.” It is also demanding on the part of the care givers who have to make sure that the children they’re entrusted with are cared for properly. BrightStar Care shares tips for an easy, jitter-free babysitting experience:

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*Make sure that you leave a phone number where the baby sitter can reach you anytime.

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*Make sure that the sitter knows all emergency numbers, like the local police, fire department, and poison control.

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*Leave specific instructions regarding your child’s snacks, activities, and bedtime and remind the sitter to make sure that your child still follows the family rules for watching TV and playtime, even if you’re away.

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*Suggest activities that your child most likely will enjoy – watching their favorite movies on DVD, playing board games, or doing arts and crafts projects. This way, both sitter and your child won’t be bored.

With BrightStar Care, you know your children are in good hands. More information can be found at BrightStarCare.com.

BrightStar Care: Care made better because it's all together

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BrightStar Care is the brainchild of Shelly Sun and her husband, JD. The company was founded after the couple failed to find sufficient caregivers for a loved one. Compelled by a need to find care that was complete, and more dependable and supportive, the couple founded BrightStar as a family business in 2002 to provide the full continuum of homecare (including adult and elder care), childcare (including newborn care, babysitter, and nanny services), and medical staffing services for individuals, families, and healthcare facilities.


The company currently operates in over 250 locations nationwide to provide round-the-clock service and care to its numerous clients. In order to serve its clients better, BrightStar Care offers its CareTogether online care tool. The company knows that the responsibility of caring for a loved one can be challenging, and managing appointments, asking for help, and keeping in touch can be very overwhelming.

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CareTogether offers families convenient tools that can help them better take care of their loved ones. The program features an easy to use, convenient scheduling and custom task manager to help them keep track of appointments. It also has journal and photo sharing tools. CareTogether enables its members to post updates to popular social networks and have 24/7 access to live professionals in their community.

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With CareTogether, caring for your loved ones is now made easier. More about BrightStar Care and its services can be found at BrightStarCare.com.

BrightStar Care: The recipe for happiness

Ensuring happiness in a person is an integral part of the homecare services that BrightStar Care provides its clients.

With the experience of its caregivers in providing aid to patients across the country, the company has amassed a wealth of knowledge on what it takes to improve the quality of life of patients by keeping them happy. Previously, the company took a different direction in its informative presentations, which were created mainly to share its knowledge regarding the different aspects of caregiving, and it decided to share the six ingredients for happiness according to psychologist Dan Baker.

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The first in the recipe for happiness is appreciation, which is described as “the outward-bound kind of love that gives everything and asks for nothing, making it pure and strong.”

The second, shares BrightStar Care, is choice. It is defined, in this sense, as being active in one’s life and taking control over situations – asserting and expressing oneself, which is a liberating and exhilarating experience.

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The third ingredient is personal power. It is when people take action and take responsibility, giving them a sense of having power over their feelings and their fate.

The fourth ingredient to ensuring happiness is focusing on strengths, which means that people can grow stronger and develop better when they draw on their strengths instead of trying to hide their weaknesses.

The fifth is language as it is an important tool for people to communicate and share their innermost thoughts with others.

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Finally, there is multidimensional living. This means that balance in the three main components of life -- relationships, health, and purpose -- is key to being happy and staying happy.

Learn more about how BrightStar Care helps improve the quality of life of patients at www.brightstarcare.com.

BrightStar: Rising the ranks

In a global economic climate where trading conditions are tough, it can be difficult for businesses to grow, let alone keep afloat. Remarkably, BrightStar Care, a leading home healthcare and staffing provider in the United States, has defied the economic doom and gloom by continuously offering great entrepreneurship opportunities through its franchise program.

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Just a matter of weeks since the beginning of 2012, the Chicago-based company has already received two prestigious distinctions: Entrepreneur named it as one of the fast-growing franchises, and the Franchise Research Institute certified it as a World-Class Franchise.

In particular, from rank 41 in 2011, the company moved up to number 21 in Entrepreneur’s 2012 Franchise 500 as it added 80 units to its network. Firms that made Entrepreneur’s esteemed list of fastest-growing franchises are marked based on the number of units operating across the United States and Canada from July 31, 2010 to July 31, 2011.

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BrightStar’s inclusion as one of the 25 World-Class Franchises for 2012 by the Franchise Research Institute is based on the breadth of its franchise program to meet franchisee’s specific needs. According to the Institute, the companies it recognizes “must receive high scores in areas such as opening support, consistent communication between franchisor and franchisees, initial and ongoing training provided to franchisees, product/service quality, and dedication to overall company excellence.” Shelley Sun, co-founder and CEO of the healthcare staffing company, views the recognition as no less than an honor since it is based on how their franchisees view their experience as franchise owners.

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“We are nothing without our franchisees and we continue to thrive because of their unwavering commitment to providing compassionate care and service, anytime, anyplace,” said Sun.

For more information about BrightStar’s franchising program, go to www.brightstarcare.com.

Brightstar offers compassionate care for the elderly

Older people need special care. BrightStar is an industry leader in providing quality care to adults and the elderly.


The company opened its doors to the public in 2002, after the realization of its founders, JD and Shelly Sun, that there is a need for quality care for every family, children and adults alike. BrightStar only gives its clients the best kind of care, medical or non-medical, offering “more dependability, more peace of mind, more joy – to make life easier and allow families to live it to the very fullest.”

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Among BrightStar’s services is Lifecare, an area in which the company’s highly trained care providers focus on caring for the elderly.


BrightStar recognizes the difficulties encountered by a family in providing quality care for an older loved one due to lack of time or the existence of other priorities. BrightStar aims to answer this need by providing different services for the elderly including:


Companion Care - Elders whose loved ones live miles away are given care service, from peer-level companionship up to assisting in letter-writing.


Personal Care - BrightStar offers assistance in terms of maintaining an elderly person’s hygiene and helping in other personal issues. Some of the services included in Personal Care are ambulation, bath visits, dressing and grooming, feeding, personal safety home evaluation, and sharing expertise in memory loss, confusion, and forgetfulness.


Home Support - BrightStar lends a helping hand in doing simple tasks and chores that elders can longer do on their own such as light housekeeping, laundry, meal preparation and cooking, and feeding and caring for pets.


Outside Support - At times when an elder has to go out, for example, to visit the hospital, BrightStar has a specific service dedicated in giving transportation assistance and guidance.


Skilled Care - Also known as clinical care, this service offers help in conducting simple medical tests at home such as blood sugar testing, blood draws, and injections.

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For more information on BrightStar’s services, visit www.brightstarcare.com.

BrightStar Care for Devoted Homecare: Professional Elder Care, Childcare, and Medical Staffing with a Heart

BrightStar Care was founded in 2002 with an understanding of how difficult and overwhelming it is to take care of a family member. Offering its clients and their loved ones with complete care that is more dependable and more supportive compared to others, BrightStar has since built a reputation of being among the best homecare providers in the country, with nine out of ten of its clients referring the company to family and friends.

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Its wide range of services including adult and elder care, childcare (care for newborns, babysitting, and nanny services), and medical staffing services for individuals, families, and healthcare facilities, are not only delivered in a professional manner but also with a heart. BrightStar Care only employs caregivers who are willing to give more of themselves to their work and don’t simply care for families but become a part of them. In addition, the company also makes sure that the person assigned to a client perfectly matches the client’s needs and personality. Its team is also available 24/7 to provide service whenever it is needed. There are also registered nurses to supervise every case and develop the most effective medical plan, as well as serve as liaison between the caregiver and client. At BrightStar, only the best experience possible is given to create better and positive outcomes.

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From childcare and elder care to medical staffing, the company treats each and every client as a family member who is given the care and companionship that he deserves. Here, caring is more than just a job – it’s a way of life.

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Learn more about BrightStar at www.brightstarcare.com.