Medical Hall
Healthcare workers, nurses, medical assistants, and community health practitioners
The Medical Hall forms healthcare workers who practice in the communities they were raised in — nurses, medical assistants, and community health workers who stay.
Nearly one in five Americans lives in a county with a primary care shortage. For many rural counties, the nearest hospital is an hour away. The crisis is not a production problem — the United States trains tens of thousands of healthcare workers every year. It is a retention problem. Medical training is oriented toward the academic medical center; clinical hours happen in urban hospitals; graduates are placed in metropolitan health systems. The community that produced the student rarely sees her again.
CHI's answer is formation before credentialing. A nursing student who has been formed in the community she loves — whose tutors practice in the same county, whose clinical hours are spent in local clinics and hospitals, whose sense of calling is inseparable from her knowledge of the people she will serve — makes a different set of decisions than one trained to maximize career options. She is also a better clinician. The knowledge of place that seems peripheral to clinical training is actually central to it: knowing her patients' families, their habits, their economic pressures, the faith community they belong to, the distances they can realistically travel.
A healthcare worker formed this way is capable of any level of practice. If God calls her to research, academic medicine, or a role that shapes the field nationally, she carries a depth of patient knowledge and community rootedness that clinical academics rarely develop. CHI does not narrow the graduate's options — it deepens her formation.
Accredited Programs from Partner Universities
Programs available through the CHI catalog. Offered through Hall dual-enrollment at accredited partner universities.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Full BSN with clinical placements in local healthcare facilities. Designed for students committed to rural and community-based healthcare.
Associate of Applied Science — Medical Assisting
Clinical and administrative training for medical assistants in community health settings.
Bachelor of Science — Pre-Med Track
Foundational sciences, clinical reasoning, and patient communication for students planning to apply to medical school. Designed to keep pre-med students connected to their communities through the application process.
Community Health Worker Certificate
Lay health education, care coordination, and community health navigation. For Halls serving communities with significant healthcare access gaps.