The Partnership for a Healthier America is working with private providers like Bright Horizons.
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Bright Horizons provides its child-care services, mostly under multiyear contracts, with companies, hospitals, universities and government agencies.
The company has even created its own Bright Horizons University that provides online professional development courses and child care certification.
Bright Horizons signs companies to long-term contracts that allow Bright Horizons to operate centers at or near their work sites.
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One example is Bain Capital-backed Bright Horizons, which went public January 25 and issued debt at roughly the same time, he said.
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Bright Horizons Chief Executive David Lissy said many institutional investors who had owned shares before the buyout appeared eager to own the stock again.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions isn't your average church-basement child care provider.
In 2010, Bright Horizons operated five times as many employer-sponsored centers in the U.S. than its closest competitor, according to a report from the Child Care Information Exchange.
Since it was founded in 1986, Bright Horizons has focused on signing companies to long-term contracts that allow Bright Horizons to operate centers at or near their work sites.
Bright Horizons is a widely admired child care provider.
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These partnerships free up cash so that Bright Horizons can spend more money drumming up new business, doing market research, recruiting better-educated employees and flexing to their customers' scheduling or dietary needs.
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