BrightStar Care has built a reputation as one of the home care industry’s innovators.
Past examples of the home care franchise company’s pioneering spirit include its investment in small-home senior living residences and its educational partnership with Chamberlain University. On Tuesday, the Gurnee, Illinois-based BrightStar announced its latest innovation effort, which will include an expansion of its clinical capabilities.
To broaden its services and become a bigger part of the in-home higher-acuity care ecosystem, BrightStar – in collaboration with Medically Home – will now provide primary in-home clinician and transport services. The provider will first bring the additional services to two new markets in California and New Jersey, after successfully deploying them in Arizona last year. Our Agency, serving Greater Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, will lead this exciting effort in New Jersey.
Andy Ray, CEO of BrightStar Care, described Tuesday’s announcement and the Medically Home partnership as a “pivotal step” for the home care giant.
“We believe the future of health care is in the home,” Ray said in a press release. “Hospital-at-home care has been shown to provide better patient outcomes with reduced hospital readmissions, reduced falls and reduced acquired infections, and we are pleased to play a key role in the transformation of care.”
Founded in 2002, BrightStar has franchised locations across the U.S., employing more than 15,000 caregivers and 5,700 registered nurses (RNs). Our agency alone employs over 160 caregivers (RNs and Home Health Aides) serving cities and towns from Edison, Piscataway, Freehold, Old Bridge, Eatontown to Lakewood, Manalapan, Woodbridge, Highland Park, Long Branch, Neptune, and Red Bank.
Medically Home, meanwhile, is one of the most well-known “hospital-at-home companies” in the nation. “Medically Home is committed to decentralizing care outside of facilities, and back to where people, patients and their families feel best — which is in their homes,” Dr. Pippa Shulman, chief medical officer at Medically Home. Where BrightStar Care is working with Medically Home, patients and their care teams will be linked to physicians and nurses, who will, together, monitor their condition and coordinate necessary services.
“In these markets, patients admitted to home hospital are transported from the bricks and mortar facility to their homes by BrightStar Care [RNs], where their home hospital admission is completed,” the press release explains. “Throughout the hospitalization, RNs provide primary in-home clinical support, which includes multiple in-person visits each day. RNs also provide infusions and other clinical care as well as discharge visits.”
Our entire team here at Brightstar Care of North Middlesex and Freehold are thrilled to be part of this exciting new initiative!