As more home care franchise companies begin to embrace company-owned or corporate-owned locations, veterans in the space are analyzing the return on investment of their long-held locations, Home Health Care News reports.
While company-owned locations are more recent additions at a number of home care agencies, BrightStar Care got its start with a handful of company-owned locations in 2002. In fact, the company didn’t open its first franchise location until 2006.
“Our first three locations ever were company-owned locations,” Shelly Sun, founder and CEO of BrightStar Care, told Home Health Care News. “Having company-owned locations is how we had the ability to document all the policies and procedures for growing a successful home care company that we then franchised.” Read more.
