Caring for Our Community
Now One Team: Harbin and Atrium Health Floyd Embrace Community Service
Caring for the communities we serve is a long-held value for Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic. When these organizations combined in 2024, one of the significant opportunities leaders quickly realized was the ability to take their shared resources into the community.
Together, Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd have nearly 6,000 teammates who have community relationships that are built on a history dating to 1865 for Harbin Clinic and 1942 for Atrium Health Floyd.
“That allowed us to broaden our reach and influence in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama," said Will Byington, director of community engagement and real estate at Atrium Health Floyd.
These teammates have established themselves as leaders and volunteers in such community organizations as area chambers of commerce, Advocates for Children, the Exchange Club Family
Resource Center, Hospitality House, National Alliance on Mental Health, Rockmart Farmers Market, the Rome-Floyd County Parks & Recreation Department, Toys for Tots, the YMCA of Rome and Floyd County and numerous other not-for-profit organizations.
Now, as one team, Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic are poised to have an even greater profile in community service.
Advocate Health, parent company of Atrium Health, is intent on using its enterprise resources to make a difference at the local level. At Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd, teammates embrace the Advocate Health promises to life everyone up; lead the way; think boldly together and to embrace the unknown with curiosity and optimism.
In northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama, that means our teammates are encouraged to help their friends, family and neighbors thrive; to use innovative thinking to turn the best ideas into new possibilities and to drive change by being willing to ask difficult questions and commit to being contributors to solutions.
Our school partnerships enable Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic to bring virtual care to area schools, free athletic training to local high schools, health and career fairs, tuition assistance opportunities and special programs for students interested in careers in health care.
“Atrium Health Floyd has relationships with every public school in Chattooga, Floyd and Polk counties as well as Darlington School. We also have agreements and have invested in the work at Berry College, Georgia Highlands College and Georgia Northwestern Technical College," Byington said. “Working with our Harbin Clinic teammates, we will continue those relationships and build on them to improve student health and provide career pathway opportunities."
Byington said that on one weekend in 2024, Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic teammates spread their resources across the county at numerous events.
“In a single weekend in 2024, Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd 
teammates multiplied their efforts by participating in and sponsoring the Paper Doll Parade 5K and health walk, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Walk (NAMI), the Hospitality House Walk a Mile in Her Shoes and the YMCA's annual BooFest," Byington said.
Teammates also have joined forces to support the Salvation Army's annual toy drive and distribution, Brighter Birthdays, area food pantries and initiatives for those who don't have permanent homes.
Atrium Health takes pride in encouraging teammates to share their time and talents through Atrium Health Serves, an initiative and online platform that gives employees the opportunity to register for community service activities throughout the Southeast that address access to food, affordable housing, employment and care.
The Harbin combination is a remarkable step forward for the community. Harbin Clinic has served northwest Georgia for more than 150 years, and Atrium Health Floyd has served the region for more than 80 years. Over those decades, we have collaborated to continuously improve care in our region.
“Together, our legacy organizations have likely
touched every family in Rome and Floyd County, and many more in the surrounding communities where we serve," Byington said. “Now that we are one team, Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd will build on our shared history of convening, leading and serving together to improve the communities where we live, work, worship and play."