Siloam Health

Community health: siloam addresses the social determinants of health that underlie medical challenges through its community health programs. Our community health worker program equips and deploys trusted individuals from local arabic and spanish-speaking communities to address patients' daily life struggles and needs such as social isolation, medical mistrust, chronic disease management, and healthcare navigation. Siloam also provides health education to newly arrived refugee families through our nashville neighbors program, which pairs volunteer groups with newly arrived refugee families to complete a 6-month health education curriculum, ensure a healthy transition, and to build friendships across cultures.

Student education: siloam health is also committed to raising a new generation of health professionals for the underserved and multiplying a more whole-person approach within the profession itself. Siloam preceptorships and university partnerships provide dozens of senior-level health professions students annually with practicum-based training in poverty medicine, cross-cultural health care, and behavioral health. Students at siloam also receive practical training in how to work with an interpreter, take a patient's spiritual history, and work with an interdisciplinary team.