The Hospital Medicine Department at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) is pleased to welcome Nurse Practitioner Rebecca Filson. Filson has worked as a registered nurse on the medical floors, the intensive care unit, and as a clinical care coordinator at SVMC since 2011. With this appointment, Filson transitions from the nursing team to the medical staff and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Medical Group.
“Rebecca emerged as a leader early on in her career at SVMC,” said James Poole, hospitalist director, and medical director of medical affairs at Southwestern Vermont Health Care. “It is gratifying to see her take this new position on our team.”
Filson earned a post-master’s family nurse practitioner certificate from the University of Massachusetts in 2017 and a master’s degree in Nursing from the University of San Diego in California in 2011. In addition, she holds a bachelor’s in sociology from Wesleyan University.
“It’s exciting and humbling,” Filson said. “I just feel such deep gratitude for the mentors that have helped pull me up and grow me as a practitioner.”
She has served as a chairperson of the Professional Practice Council; as Critical Care Consortium liaison; and as a member of the Nursing Strategic Planning Committee, the Hospital Ethics Committee, and on several task forces. She was a nominee for SVMC’s Magnet Nurse of the Year. She is a member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses and an inductee of the Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society. In addition, she was a recipient of the Helen Kunzleman scholarship through SVMC.
Filson is grateful to many of her physician and nurse colleagues for their encouragement and support, including her University of Massachusetts preceptors Dr Martin Luloff, Dr Malcolm Paine, and Dr Robin Tarnas; Dr James Poole; Dr Marinshine Gentler; and her fellow nurses who worked with her in the Intensive Care Unit.
“They helped me learn and grow as an ICU nurse and helped push me forward,” Filson said.
Director of Human Resources Polly Cipperly noted, “Becca is exceptional in so many ways, but her drive to increase her skills and the professional encouragement she has received are the norm at SVMC.” Cipperly continued, “Many of our clinical and non-clinical staff find that Southwestern Vermont Health Care is a great place to grow their careers and advance.”
SVHC has been named one of Vermont’s Best Places to Work for 4 years in a row and named to Becker’s Hospital Review’s list of "150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare.” In addition, SVMC is a recipient of the Magnet Prize, a four-time Magnet designee for nursing excellence, and the only hospital in Vermont to have received five stars, the highest possible rating, from the federal government.
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center hospitalists offer medical-surgical care, telemetry, and intensive care services to as many as 99 patients. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is the state’s first Magnet Center for Nursing Excellence, a designation it has held since 2002. For more information about SVMC’s hospital medicine services, visit svhealthcare.org. For information about jobs at SVHC, visit svhealthcare.org/careers.
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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’s providers are members of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians, a multispecialty medical group operated in partnership with Dartmouth-Hitchcock. SVHC includes the Centers for Living and Rehabilitation, a 150-bed long- and short-term care skilled nursing facility; the SVHC Foundation; and Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC), a 99-bed community hospital. SVMC also includes 19 primary and specialty care practices and primary care offices in Bennington, Manchester, Pownal, West Dover, and Wilmington, VT. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission and is the state’s first Magnet Center for Nursing Excellence, a designation it has held since 2002. To learn more, visit svhealthcare.org. For news and updates, follow facebook.com/svmedicalcenter.
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