Siloam Health

Siloam Health’s mission is to share the love of Christ by serving those in need through health care. Our vision is that our neighbors from all nations are empowered to lead physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy lives and to feel at home in our community. Siloam opened its doors in 1991, it started in two small apartments in the Edgehill neighborhood off 12th Avenue South into a 1,000 sq.-ft. With seed money from Belmont Church, Siloam begins seeing patients once a week, asking each patient to contribute $2 per visit From our earliest days, Siloam becomes a medical refuge for native Nashvillians and the growing immigrant community alike. The Vietnamese and Kurdish communities become one of our main patient populations and as demand in the international community increases, Siloam adds language interpreters to our volunteer base. Siloam experiences steady growth in our first decade. We expand our hours of operation to 32 hours per week, allowing a full load of patients to be seen by more than 20 medical and non-medical volunteers. In 2001, Siloam begins a formal partnership to administer refugee medical screenings for every refugee resettled in Davidson County. In 2005, we moved to clinic located on Gale Lane (our current location). In 2014, Siloam launches community health initiatives to address the social determinants of health that affect our immigrant patients in their own communities. Community health efforts target four language groups - Arabic, Burmese, Nepali, and Spanish.

Siloam is known as a comprehensive, whole-person health care organization that combines medical care, community health, and student education to serve thousands of uninsured, underserved, and culturally marginalized individuals from all over the world.