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Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic Announce Combination

Long-standing Institutions Will Provide Integrated Health Care Services in Region​

Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic Announce Combination

ROME, Ga. – April 15, 2024 – Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic, the region’s two longest-serving health care providers, finalized a long-anticipated strategic combination today, creating an integrated health care system.

Harbin Clinic is Georgia’s largest, privately-owned, multi-specialty physician group. Atrium Health Floyd is one of the largest providers of health care services in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. The two organizations will share governance and decision-making under the guidance of a board consisting of Harbin Clinic physicians and legacy board members of Floyd Healthcare Management Inc.

“Harbin Clinic has served northwest Georgia for more than 150 years, and Atrium Health Floyd has served the region for more than 80 years,” said Kurt Stuenkel, president of Atrium Health Floyd. “Over those decades, we have worked with one another 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.”

"We are incredibly excited to see what the future holds as we celebrate this combination, which marks a new chapter for Harbin Clinic and what’s possible for health care in our region,” said Kenna Stock, chief executive officer at Harbin Clinic. “Harbin Clinic has always been physician-led, and that will not change. Just as they always have, Harbin Clinic physicians will continue to have a voice in local healthcare decisions impacting the patients we serve. Alongside Atrium Health Floyd, Harbin Clinic will uphold our commitment to caring completely for our communities while ultimately enriching and extending the reputation of excellence we have worked to build for more than 150 years.”

“As Harbin Clinic joins Advocate Health, one of the country’s largest non-profit health systems, we remain deeply committed to preserving its unique community connection that both Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd are known for,” said Eugene A. Woods, chief executive officer of Advocate Health, of which Atrium Health is a part. “Being part of Advocate Health will pave the way to push the boundaries of clinical excellence and foster new innovations, building on the esteemed legacy of both Harbin Clinic and Atrium Health Floyd to usher in a new era in healthcare in Floyd County and the greater region.”

Atrium Health is a part of the Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health system, which has 68 hospitals and more than 155,000 teammates covering six states in the Midwest and Southeast.

About Atrium Health Floyd

The Atrium Health Floyd family of health care services is a leading medical provider and economic force in northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd is part of Charlotte, North Carolina-based Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Floyd strategically combined with Harbin Clinic in 2024 and employs more than 5,200 teammates who provide care in over 40 medical specialties at four facilities: Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center – a 361-bed full-service, acute care hospital and regional referral center in Rome, Georgia; Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center in Cedartown, Georgia; and Atrium Health Floyd Cherokee Medical Center in Centre, Alabama; and Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center Behavioral Health, also in Rome. Together, Atrium Health Floyd and Harbin Clinic provide primary care, specialty care and urgent care throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama. Atrium Health Floyd also operates a stand-alone emergency department in Chattooga County, the first such facility to be built from the ground-up in Georgia.

About Harbin Clinic

Harbin Clinic is Georgia’s largest physician-led, multi-specialty clinic with more than 250 providers caring for patients across more than 40 specialties and services in 19 locations. For more than 150 years, Harbin Clinic caregivers have dedicated their lives to healing others starting with the first Harbin-founded practice established in 1871.  Each year, individuals throughout northwest Georgia and northeast Alabama choose Harbin Clinic based on the organization’s long-standing reputation of medical excellence and compassionate, patient-centered care. For more information, visit www.harbinclinic.com.

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. Advocate Health is nationally recognized for its expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs more than 160,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations and offers one of the nation's largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to redefining care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.