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Vanderbilt University Medical Center is implementing a new policy which standardizes and expands the role of a medical chaperone, an individual who serves as a witness for both a patient and their clinician during a sensitive medical examination or procedure.

Mike DeFoe has been named executive director of Finance for Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital.

Angela Malik, DNP, RN, NE-BC, CPHQ, has been named chief nursing officer of Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s community hospitals — Vanderbilt Wilson County Hospital (VWCH), Vanderbilt Bedford Hospital and Vanderbilt Tullahoma-Harton Hospital — have risen to the occasion to meet critical vaccination needs across Tennessee.