alumni NOTES Rachel Harris, BSN ’94, has been named the senior vice president and chief nurse executive for Erlanger Health System. Her nursing experience includes serving as administrator and assistant chief nursing officer of Erlanger East and North hospitals. Her previous responsibilities also included being house supervisor and nurse manager for several of Erlanger's key medical areas, including Heart Failure, Dialysis, Stroke and Surgical Intensive Care Units.
Rhonda Hatfield, BSN ’96, MBA ’00, is the division chief nurse executive for CHI Memorial. In addition to the responsibilities she has for CHI Memorial, she is enrolled in the Doctorate of Business Administration concentration at Trevecca University and anticipates graduating in 2023. Rachel Harris
Taylor Theobold, BSN ’18, was set to get married June 6, but life had other plans. She and her fiancé are now planning for a May 2021 event. One week after officially postponing the wedding, she lost her home in the April tornadoes. Not deterred, she will graduate from Lee University in December 2021, earning her doctor of nursing practice. Working in Erlanger’s Cardiac Step-Down Unit and seeing a tremendous need, she “opened” the Compassion Closet to be used to meet the needs of Erlanger patients who have no clothes appropriate for discharge. To date, the Closet has been able to serve more than 600 people. Taylor earned the Pay-ItForward Award from WTVC/Channel 9 and received $500 to purchase more clothes.
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Cody Harvey, MBA, BSN RN ’15, executive director at Morning Pointe Assisted Living in Chattanooga, found himself in an interesting position. The facility was devastated by the tornadoes that hit East Brainerd in April, forcing the evacuation of a building full of seniors to a safe place in the middle of the night. Morning Pointe is set to reopen in November 2020. Harvey also is working as a nurse at the new Kennedy Outpatient Center at Erlanger Hospital, where he is a gastroenterology nurse in pediatrics.
Laura Williams and Madison Williams, both BSN '14, were in New York City in the spring, working with COVID-19 response. Madison worked in a COVID Intensive Care Unit, and Laura was the House Supervisor in a COVID-19 field hospital. Laura is currently a clinical instructor for the University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Nursing.
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Rebecca Beebe, BSN ’19, is an Army nurse officer and lives with her husband in El Paso, Texas. She works on a surgical unit at the military hospital and rotates through the COVID-19 unit. They have adopted another fur baby, a golden retriever puppy named Finley after Finley Stadium where the Mocs football team plays.
