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World Mental Health Day
Today is the 2019 World Mental Health Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about global suicide rates. Did you know that even older adults face mental health concerns? In Virginia alone, 11-17...
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September 29th 2019 is World Heart Day
BrightStar Care just celebrated World Heart Day on September 29. World Heart Day was created by the World Heart Federation to bring awareness to Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) – the leading...
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Celebrating National Rehabilitation Week
September 16-22 is National Rehabilitation Awareness Week! In celebration, BrightStar Care Leesburg/Gainesville decided to donate flowers (grown by our owner!) to Encompass Health Rehabilitation...
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50 Year Timeless Christmas Message from Apollo 8
A column in the Washington Post by David Von Drehle pointed out that exactly 50 years ago today, on Christmas Eve 1968, "For the first time, human eyes ventured far enough to see our planet...
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BrightStar Care of Leesburg Gives Away Rays of Sunshine
BrightStar Care of Leesburg donates spectacular dahlias to brighten lake Manassas health and rehab. Pictured here Director Mandy Gannon and staff -- BrightStar Care of Leesburg, owned...
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How does a Care Coach Encourage Patients?
We know that it's not easy having been diagnosed with a very complex, chronic illness and you have a lot to deal with so the care coach, really through their medical knowledge and their...
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Home Safety and Fall Risk
An older adult is likely to experience a fall for many reasons. If you think of a fall as an interaction between the physical environment and certain characteristics of an individual, it's a...
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Nurse Tynisha finds happiness in her clients' satisfaction
Tynisha Mosley-Bates, BSN, RN, Director of Nursing for BrightStar Care Baltimore City/County earned the title of 2018 National Nurse of the Year for her compassion with patients and their families,...
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What Is a Care Coach?
00:09 One of the things we use our in Brightstar clinical pathway program is this idea of a RN clinical pathway coordinator, and that person functions as a care coach. 00:20 It's...
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Seniors Walk/Run at 2018 Ashby Ponds Summer Olympics Sponsored by BrightStar Care
(Ashburn, VA) – Ashby Ponds retirement community recently hosted their 7th Annual Summer Olympics in Ashburn, Va. Since 2009, residents of the community have come together each summer to...
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