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And the Winners Are: FirstLight Home Care, Emerging Business of the Year

The cameras have finished flashing, the festivities at the Hylton Performing Arts Center have long since been cleaned up and everyone is back to work. But for FirstLight Home Care, the Prince William Chamber of Commerce’s Emerging Business of the Year award winner, it is never business as usual.

Based in Woodbridge, FirstLight helps care for seniors, veterans and others with disabilities, and loved ones recovering from surgery. And though they won the Emerging Business of the Year Award, they were also nominated for the Innovative Business of the Year award.  

Owners Paul and Renee Jones  opened the company in 2016. To set themselves apart, FirstLight leverages technology to increase efficiency. One example is their cloud-based software that gives family members real-time care information about their loved one from anywhere in the world. That’s innovation.

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