Care Plus New Jersey, Inc.
Brigitte D. Johnson, Esq., is a licensed attorney with over thirty years’ experience in the legal field. Employed at Care Plus, NJ since 1998, recruited initially as a Director, she was promoted to the position of Vice President in 2001 and Sr. Vice President in 2015.
As a member of the Executive Management team of Care Plus, she provides input and oversight on major operational decisions of the Agency including financial, budgetary, and employee relations, future expansion, development and compliance. As General Counsel, she manages all legal affairs of the Agency, including but not limited to contract negotiations, insurance, regulatory matters, and lawsuits. As a member of the Board of Trustee’s Governance committee, Ms. Johnson has assisted with the Board’s re-organization, bylaw revisions and creation of subsidiary corporations and development of corporate strategies including potential mergers and affiliations.
For the past 10 years, Ms. Johnson has served as lead counsel on the establishment of three (3) non-profit subsidiary corporations of the parent organization Care Plus NJ, Inc., one (1) for profit LLC and in 2017, one (1) stand-alone non-profit management entity. In the formation of the stand-alone entity, in 2017, Ms. Johnson served as lead counsel in Care Plus NJ’s bid and eventually the negotiation of a contract to manage Bergen County’s psychiatric hospital (formerly Bergen Regional Medical Center), one of the largest such hospitals in the State of NJ. With the formation of Care Plus Bergen, Inc. (the non-profit management corporation), she lead negotiations for the sublease and lease management agreement with the County of Bergen, employment contract with the CEO and third party operating agreements. Further, Ms. Johnson lead efforts to transition operations of the hospital, the employment of over 2000 employees (including C-Suite executives and unionized employees) and the establishment of Board of Trustees, under the new management structure of Care Plus Bergen, with the renaming of the hospital now known as New Bridge Medical Center.
As Sr. Vice President, Ms. Johnson is responsible for supervising the Human Resources, Quality Assurance (includes Privacy and Compliance), Information Management, Clinical Informatics and Information Technology departments. She also supervises the Work Incentive Services Division of Care Plus NJ.
Ms. Johnson serves as Executive Director over Care Plus Workforce Solutions, Inc., one of the non-profit subsidiaries of Care Plus NJ, which houses several business tracks: Care Plus Laundry, Care Plus Laser Imaging and Care Plus Janitorial. Over the past several years, she has taken CPWS from an annual gross of $15,000 to $6 million. This company provides employment and training opportunities for the disabled and economically disadvantaged through the sales of goods and services to the end-users. Goods sold are shipped nationwide, laundry and janitorial services span throughout Northern NJ regions.
Admitted to New Jersey Bar 1988
J.D. Howard University School of Law, 1987
BA Cum Laude, Virginia State University, 1984
Memberships:
Legal and Professional: Member Healthcare Compliance Association, New Jersey Bar Association, Association of Corporate Council, American Healthcare Lawyer, American Health Information Management Association, and Former Chair Bergen County Youth Investment Council.