CHICAGO – BrightStar, a full-service home healthcare and medical staffing agency, has been named one of the top 500 franchises in the United States, ranking #152 in Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500®. This is the first time BrightStar has been ranked by the publication.

The rankings for all 500 companies are determined using an exclusive formula that takes into account objective and quantifiable factors. The most important factors include financial strength and stability, growth rate and size of the system.