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BrightStar Care of Louisville Celebrates 55th Continuing Education Class for Care Professionals

October 11, 2018

BrightStar Care has Provided Louisville Health Professional with Free Continuing Education Credits as a Community Service for 6th Year

BrightStar Care Celebrates Ongoing Educational Training Series

Louisville, Kentucky (October 2018) - BrightStar Care of Louisville, a local leader in Home Care and Medical Staffing, hosted its 55th continuing education class for social workers, nurse case managers and other local health care professionals this September.  As part of BrightStar Care’s commitment to education and training, they have provided free educational classes and certification credits to Louisville’s health care community since 2013. 
 
BrightStar has hosted up to ten programs per year, providing 3,365 total continuing education credits, all free of charge, as a service to the community and their healthcare partners. .  Helping to educate on important topics from prescription drug abuse, HIV and suicide prevention, to timely topics including a CDC presentation on Louisville's Hepatitis A outbreak, BrightStar Care Courses have been a long running program benefiting our community and helping to improve care for Seniors and patients with chronic conditions..
 
The milestone 55th BrightStar Continuing Education Program held in September featured keynote speaker, Dr. Eric Lydon, on "Anxiety & Depressive Disorders".   The last course of the year will be held on October 18th, and BrightStar Care will host the program  "Embracing the Silver Tsunami: Combating Scams & Fraud Throughout the Commonwealth”. The speaker is Gerina Wethers, Executive Director, Office of Senior Protection and Mediation, Office of the Attorney General.
 
BrightStar Care of Louisville has conducted these programs for healthcare professionals in our area on the 3rd Thursday of the month regularly and is proud to celebrate it’s contributions to helping improve quality of care in Louisville.  Owner Christian McCutcheon said “This achievement emphasizes BrightStar Care’s commitment to offer exceptional care and services to our community and our healthcare system partners in Louisville..  BrightStar Care strives to maintain the highest standards required to ensure our clients are provided with the utmost safety and professional home care in Kentucky and training and education has always been a top priority to us.”
 
BrightStar’s partners providing support for the training events have included: Kentucky Elder Law and Senior Home Transitions.  Together with their partners BrightStar Care continues to provide the community with ongoing training and support for home health care in Louisville.  For more information on Brightstar Care courses and community events and services please visit: https://www.brightstarcare.com/louisville
 
About BrightStar Care:
BrightStar Care of Louisville proudly provides private duty home health care and caregivers for the elderly and children, including 24 hour support in senior independent and assisted living communities. Additionally we provide Medical Staffing and In-Home care for pediatric, adult and geriatric patients, and companion and personal care for elders with Alzheimer’s or Dementia. We also provide Home Child Care, Sitter and Nanny services for children and support for new mothers.  We support Veterans and accept most Long Term Care Insurance benefits, provide comfort care, live-in care, CNA, Caregiver, RN, RN Supervision, compassionate care, and compatibility guarantees. Other services include safe discharge and transportation from the hospital or rehab facility, Post Operative Transitional care after medical treatment or surgery both short and long term, Pre Operation and preparation help and assistance, and client monitoring for out of town family members.  Proudly serving Louisville, Fairdale, St. Matthews, Middletown, Jeffersontown, Shively, Anchorage, Brooks, Taylorsville, Smithfield, Simpsonville, Shelbyville, Prospect, Pewee Valley, Mount Washington, La Grange, Goshen, Glenview, Fisherville, Finchville, Crestwood, Coxs Creek, Buckner in KY
 
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