NorthWest Healthcare Properties Management Limited (NWM), the manager of Vital Healthcare Property Trust announced the appointment of a new Independent Director. NWM announced that Dr. Michael Stanford has been appointed as an Independent Director. Dr. Stanford is an experienced corporate director and health services advisor with a distinguished 30 year senior executive career in the Australian private and public health care sectors. Dr. Stanford was recently a director of Healthscope. He is currently a director of Virtus Health. Previously, Dr. Stanford was the Group CEO of St John of God Health Care.