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FirstLight Home Care Semi-Annual National Conference Recap

FirstLight Home Care just wrapped up our 8th semi-annual conference, #FLHC2014, in the bold, beautiful, Broomfield, Colorado. We’re proud to announce that this conference was our biggest conference and most-well attended in FirstLight Home Care history to date! Our owners eagerly arrived in anticipation of the conference’s itinerary and events....

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FirstLight Client Celebrates 105th Birthday in the House He Built by Hand

Most people would consider living to your mid-90’s an accomplishment by itself, but what if you heard that a man just turned 105 years old, and is still living in the house that he built 65 years ago? Well that actually happened last month when FirstLight client Bill Mohr, a...

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FirstLight Home Care of Contra Costa Receives Home Care Pulse Certification

We’re excited to announce that our location in Walnut Creek, California, has received its Home Care Pulse Certification, a certification program dedicated to the measurement of client and employee satisfaction scores. Home Care Pulse created the certification program to measure key satisfaction aspects of its in-home care delivery as well...

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FirstLight Home Care scores high on franchisee satisfaction surveys

Great news to share as we cap off another week here at FirstLight! We’ve been ranked #22 on Franchise Business Review’s list of the Top 50 franchise systems that rank highest in franchisee satisfaction. We are the youngest franchise system EVER to make the Top 50 rankings so this is...

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Former FirstLight executive opens own location in North Dallas

Our former director of business development and team support, Kevin Stewart, recently retired from his position to open a FirstLight location in Richardson, Tx. Stewart has spent the past two years working with us at the corporate level, helping to build this company from the ground up. A certified franchise...

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Do caregivers deserve overtime? We think so.

Many people, including the elderly, caregivers and home care agencies, are wondering how the Dept. of Labor’s proposed changes to the companionship and live-in worker regulations will affect the in-home care industry. In 1974, these regulations originally created a limited exemption from both minimum wage and overtime pay requirements to...

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Ohio franchisees awarded Best of Home Care

Congratulations to Ohio owners John and Jane Moyer on recently achieving the Best of Home Care award which is distributed by Home Care Pulse, a third party provider of client and caregiver satisfaction services to private duty home care agencies. The award is given to the top performers in client...

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Happy New Year and welcome to 2012!

Happy New Year! It’s amazing that we’re already through the first week of 2012. Good news to share as we kick off the New Year: Tammy Iuso, recent Franchisee of the Year and owner of FirstLight in Orlando has earned Joint Commission Accreditation. This is quite an accomplishment in the...

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