Paige Fillio, PA, Joins SVMC ExpressCare

BENNINGTON, VT—July 19, 2021—Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) is pleased to welcome Physician Assistant Paige Fillio to SVMC ExpressCare and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians. 

Fillio earned her master’s degree in physician assistant studies from Westfield State University in Massachusetts in 2021. She received her bachelor’s in allied health and biology from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

Fillio has worked as a scribe in the Emergency Department at SVMC since 2015. She served for a part of that time as a quality assurance specialist for the scribe program and as chief scribe. She has also worked in the Emergency Department and Urgent Care at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

ExpressCare is newly relocated to 120 Hospital Drive. It shares space with the Respiratory Evaluation Center, which features negative-pressure air exchange throughout. The new facility also has a dedicated parking area, a larger waiting area, larger and more exam rooms. As always, the practice offers X-ray and blood draw.

Open 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. seven days a week—including holidays, except Thanksgiving and Christmas—ExpressCare is a convenient walk-in clinic. No appointment is necessary. ExpressCare offers care for minor illnesses and injuries to patients of all ages. COVID-19 vaccinations are available for everyone over the age of 12. For more information, call 802-440-4077.

About:
Southwestern Vermont Health Care (SVHC) is a comprehensive, preeminent, health care system providing exceptional, convenient, and affordable care to the communities of Bennington and Windham Counties of Vermont, eastern Rensselaer and Washington Counties of New York, and northern Berkshire County in Massachusetts. SVHC includes Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), Southwestern Vermont Regional Cancer Center, the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, and the SVHC Foundation. SVMC includes 25 primary and specialty care practices.

Southwestern Vermont Health Care is among the most lauded small rural health systems in the nation. It is the recipient of the American Hospital Association’s 2020 Rural Hospital Leadership Award. SVMC ranked fourth nationwide for the value of care it provides by the Lown Institute Hospital Index and is a five-time recipient of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence. It has also received the highest marks possible from the Leapfrog Group. 

Southwestern Vermont Medical Center provides exceptional care without discriminating on the basis of an individual’s age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Language assistance services, free of charge, are available at 1-800-367-9559.