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As this South Nashville health center practices for ICE raids, it still wants immigrant patients to feel ‘celebrated’

By Char Daston

February 11, 2025

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ICE says it will now enter schools, churches and hospitals. Staff at one clinic is practicing what they’ll do if agents show up.

Filed Under: Health Care, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Healthcare, illegal immigration, Immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Siloam

Nashville Moves Vaccination Site To Its Huge Convention Center In Hopes Of Getting More Doses

By Blake Farmer

January 28, 2021

Music City Center

The Music City Center was never needed as a pandemic overflow hospital, as once feared. But it will be used as Nashville’s centralized mass vaccination site, in the hope that the city will eventually get enough COVID-19 vaccine to make use of its 2.1 million square feet of space.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: coronavirus vaccine, Gill Wright, Metro Public Health, Music City Center, Siloam

Charity Clinic Opens New Facility In Nashville Neighborhood Hard Hit By COVID

By Blake Farmer

June 23, 2020

A 30-year-old charity clinic in Nashville opened its first satellite location on Tuesday. And it just so happens to be in one of the zip codes hardest hit by COVID-19.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care, Race & Equity Tagged With: immigrants, refugees, Siloam

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