Bridgette applies her experience in health system administration and ethics in health care to her health law practice. Bridgette advises health care providers, ACOs, health plans, PBMs, and laboratories on a variety of regulatory, fraud and abuse, and business planning matters.
With a background in health care operations, Bridgette is able to provide clients with practical insight that includes a focus on the business implications of health care enforcement defense activities, internal investigations, regulatory compliance, and fraud and abuse analyses of proposed new procedures.
Bridgette's work also includes a focus on ethics in health care principles. As a health care ethicist with the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Ethics in Health Care (NCEHC), Bridgette provided technical guidance on health care ethics problems to VA stakeholders, VA Central Office staff, and field-based consultants. She also collaborated on the development of an ethics consultation program and educational materials. Prior to her appointment at the NCEHC, Bridgette served as the Outpatient Clinic Coordinator at the Manhattan Campus of the VA New York Harbor Healthcare System and completed the Graduate Health Administration Training Program at the Washington DC VA Medical Center. Her health care management experience includes outpatient clinical operations, customer service, performance improvement, program development and implementation, data analysis, and supervision of staff.
Bridgette is trained in Lean/Six Sigma thinking and as an examiner for the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.
