Taylor Wizner
Reporter/ProducerExpertise: Health care policy, medicine, public health, health equity, podcast production
Education: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Bachelor of Arts, English literature
Columbia University - Master of Science, journalism
Favorite spot in Northeast Ohio: Edgewater Beach
Experience:
Taylor Wizner covers health in Northeast Ohio with a focus on health care policy, health equity and engagement journalism. She has previously reported for Interlochen Public Radio and WDET.
Highlights:
- 2023 Regional Murrow Award, Hard News - “Petoskey High School students say searches for vapes went too far”
- Helped launch a podcast focused on environmental issues in the Upper Great Lakes region
- Work has appeared on NPR
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Ohio dispensaries opened their doors for recreational marijuana sales for the first time on Tuesday. -
The Board called a special meeting Friday morning to select Dr. Christine Alexander-Rager as the acting president and CEO of the health system. -
MetroHealth officials confirm that the president and CEO is on a leave of absence for health reasons. -
Akron's Summa Health said its sale to venture capital firm HATCo is on track to be finalized by the end of the year, but health care analysts wonder how the for-profit will pull off their model. -
Cleveland City Council wants answers from the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority following a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report that found the authority failed to follow lead-safe rules. -
Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority did not report 10 cases of children with elevated blood lead levels to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office. -
The federal agency will be at several community events in the Cleveland area over the summer, following a January decision to lower the lead action level. -
Surgeons at University Hospitals use tiny instruments and robot-controlled tools to do heart surgery in a way that is much less invasive than open-heart surgery. -
New Bridge Cleveland will renovate and move its workforce training center to the former Case Elementary School on Superior Avenue. -
Steward Health Care, owner of Trumbull Regional Medical Center and Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital in Warren, is set to auction off those hospitals, leaving the future of health care in the Mahoning Valley in the air.
