Author Archives: Liora Engel-Smith

Liora Engel-Smith covers health care for VTDigger. She previously covered rural health at NC Health News in North Carolina and the Keene Sentinel in New Hampshire. She also had been at the Muscatine Journal in rural Iowa. Engel-Smith has master's degrees in public health from Drexel University and journalism from Temple University. Before moving to journalism, she was a scientist who briefly worked in the pharmaceutical industry.

John Brumsted

Brumsted to retire as chief of UVM Health Network, medical center

by Liora Engel-Smith January 25, 2022, 1:59 pmJanuary 26, 2022, 10:53 am

Legislature considers whether life insurers should have access to genetic information

by Liora Engel-Smith January 24, 2022, 4:44 pmMarch 23, 2022, 6:24 pm

John Brumsted

Omicron stymies UVM Medical Center patient access efforts, hospital leaders say

by Liora Engel-Smith January 19, 2022, 5:58 pmJanuary 24, 2022, 9:24 am

A building with a curved side.

New UVM Health Network policy: Employees with Covid can have extra time off after using up all vacation, sick time

by Liora Engel-Smith January 18, 2022, 7:01 pmJanuary 18, 2022, 7:01 pm

‘There’s just not a light on the horizon’: Vermont hospital staff swamped by record Covid-19 hospitalizations

by Liora Engel-Smith, Erin Petenko and Ethan Weinstein January 18, 2022, 5:07 pmFebruary 18, 2022, 11:29 am

Exterior view of a multi-story hospital building with cars parked in the lot and an emergency entrance visible.

UVM Medical Center is in staffing crisis mode. Now what?

by Liora Engel-Smith January 13, 2022, 6:23 pmJanuary 13, 2022, 6:23 pm

UVM Medical Center imposes emergency staffing as Covid sidelines more than 400 employees

by Liora Engel-Smith January 12, 2022, 4:11 pmJanuary 13, 2022, 9:15 am

A sign for the University of Vermont Medical Center.

Fanny Allen rehabilitation unit reopens; surgery center still closed

by Liora Engel-Smith January 12, 2022, 12:38 pmJanuary 12, 2022, 12:38 pm

Interior of the Green Mountain Surgery Center shows a clinical setting

Independent surgery center proposed in Colchester; state review planned this month

by Liora Engel-Smith January 11, 2022, 6:25 amJanuary 24, 2022, 8:03 am

Nurses’ union says Scott-Sanders workforce plan ignores current needs

by Liora Engel-Smith January 7, 2022, 7:01 pmJanuary 7, 2022, 7:02 pm

Vermont Psychiatric Care Hospital

Department of Mental Health asks for nearly $2 million to staff psychiatric facilities

by Liora Engel-Smith January 7, 2022, 6:25 amJanuary 6, 2022, 5:36 pm

Hospital workers walk past each other in the hallway of a hospital.

Lawmakers asked to extend law allowing traveling health care workers to fill Vermont’s critical need

by Liora Engel-Smith January 5, 2022, 5:41 pmMarch 23, 2022, 8:04 pm

What Vermonters need to know about Covid-19 testing

by Liora Engel-Smith January 4, 2022, 5:46 pmJanuary 4, 2022, 5:46 pm

Vermont workers groups criticize shorter Covid-19 isolation guidelines

by Erin Petenko, Liora Engel-Smith and Fred Thys December 29, 2021, 6:51 pmDecember 29, 2021, 8:09 pm