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About Us
Harbin Clinic is the product of five generations of medical history that started over 150 years ago The predecessor to the Harbin Clinic was the Harbin Hospital that was founded in 1908 by Dr Robert Harbin and Dr William Harbin After many years of success and growth the Harbin Hospital was transformed into the Harbin Clinic in 1948

Today the Harbin Clinic is the largest privately owned multispecialty physician group in Georgia The staff includes 140 doctors who represent more 30 different medical specialties and subspecialties including medical and radiation oncology The Harbin Clinic offers full lab and radiology services including a 64slice CT Scanner HighField MRI Extremity MRI and bone densitometry Harbin Clinics main campus is located at 1825 Martha Berry Boulevard in Rome Georgia There are 20 satellite offices located throughout Rome Calhoun Cartersville Cedartown Adairsville Summerville and Acworth

Some of Harbin Clinics comprehensive ancillary services include a certified Vascular Lab Dialysis Center Diabetes Management Center Sleep Disorders Center Vitality Wellness Center and the Harbin Clinic Vein Center Located in Rome the Vein Center provides minimally invasive treatment for varicose and spider veins Harbin Clinic is also on the leading edge of technology by being one of the first in Northwest Georgia to use Electronic Medical Records

The entire organization services an 11county service area with an estimated population of more than 600000 Counties include Floyd Polk Bartow Cherokee Chattooga Gordon Haralson Walker and Paulding in Georgia and Cherokee and DeKalb counties in Alabama More than 1000 patients utilize the services of the organization each day More than 1 million phone calls are handled by the organization each year

In the summer of 2007 Harbin Clinic opened the Harbin Clinic Specialty Center at 550 Redmond Road next door to the Harbin Clinic Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Center The Specialty Center houses the Vascular Lab Vascular Surgery Ophthalmology Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Dermatology Nephrology Neurosciences Neurosurgery Physical Medicine amp Rehabilitation and Internal Medicine and Nephrology The Harbin Clinic Summerville Dialysis Center was opened in Summerville in January 2008 and the Harbin Clinic Cedartown Medical Building was opened in the fall of 2008 and is the location for the departments of Family Medicine Internal Medicine Diabetes Management Cardiac Rehab and Dialysis Center in Cedartown The Harbin Clinic Cartersville Medical Center opened in 2008 and houses full Imaging and Lab departments Cardiology Cardiac Rehab General Surgery Pediatrics Rheumatology Family Practice Internal Medicine Diabetes Management and a MultiSpecialty department for 9 different specialties

Dr Ken Davis President and CEO recently announced that Harbin Clinic and Harbin Clinic Properties would build a comprehensive state of the art cancer center in Rome The three story 55000 square foot building will be located on the corner of Second Avenue and West Fifth Street between Barron Stadium and Floyd Medical Center in Rome

While already maintaining the lead in providing the latest technology in cancer care to patients of Rome and Northwest Georgia Harbin is excited about the new center because it will be the destination for patientfocused cancer care and support services With cancer patients in mind the cancer center is designed to meet patient needs at all points of their care

Specialties and services located in the center will include the offices of our Medical Oncologists and their Infusion Center our Radiation Oncologists and their Radiation Oncology Center with two Varian linear accelerators an imaging center with a new PETCT scanner and a state of the art imaging device for detecting cancers Again the presence of this scanner in the cancer center clearly indicates how this is a community effort as the scanner is jointly owned by Redmond Medical Center Floyd Medical Center and Rome Radiology Dr Davis said Located on the third floor of the Cancer Center will be the Floyd Breast Center There will also be a conference center which will host Harbins multidisciplinary lung and breast tumor cancer conferences

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History

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Our History
The present Harbin Clinic is the product of five generations of medical history that started over 150 years ago Although the Harbins and their associates were not the only outstanding practitioners of medicine during this period their history does point to one of the major reasons for the current predominance of the medical community in Rome and Floyd County that new generations have built on a tradition of excellence in healthcare as set forth by the previous generation

The First Harbin In Georgia
Harbin Brothers Begin Practice In Rome
The Harbin Hospital Is Founded
Hospital Day May 12 1921
April 1921 Hospital Statistics
Harbin Hospital 1920s 1940s
Harbin Hospital Becomes Harbin Clinic1948
Harbin Clinic Builds New Facility1969
THE FIRST HARBIN IN GEORGIA
The first Harbin to practice medicine in Georgia was Dr Wylie Reeder Harbin who was born in Fairplay South Carolina on April 25 1832

Dr Harbins educational opportunities included reading medicine under Dr Robert B Maxwell a country doctor in Fairplay and graduating from the Medical College of South Carolina in 1858

During the Civil War he served in the 7th Regiment South Carolina Cavalry He saw action in the skirmishes along the north side of the James River and in the battles from Richmond to Appomattox Virginia He was captured in Farmville Virginia on the Saturday before the surrender and remained a prisoner until news that the war was over reached the prison After he was released he walked over 350 miles back to his home in South Carolina

Dr Harbin married Mary Stokes Shelor 18401913 in 1861 In 1871 the family moved to Gordon County near Calhoun Georgia where he continued medical practice until he was forced to retire due to poor health in the late 1890s

Wylie Reeder Harbin M D had four children
Thomas Witherspoon Harbin 1862 1937
Robert Maxwell Harbin MD 1864 1939
Nina Harbin 1867 1935
William Pickens Harbin MD 1872 1942

Although the eldest of Dr Harbins four children did not become a doctor Thomas Witherspoon Harbin 1862 1937 organized and built the Echota Cotton Mills in Calhoun He also became a judge state senator religious leader and played an important part in the development of Gordon County Judge Thomas Harbins son Robert Maxwell Harbin II after attending Harvard Medical School was briefly associated with the Harbin Hospital in Rome from 1922 1924 He later became a professor of orthopedic surgery at Western Reserve College Cleveland Ohio

Dr W R Harbins second son Robert Maxwell Harbin Sr MD 1864 1939 was educated at the University of Georgia and the Bellevue Medical College of New York City He returned to practice with his father in Calhoun in 1888 In 1894 Robert Maxwell Harbin Sr MD moved to Rome to set up practice and in 1897 he invited his younger brother to join his practice

William Pickens Harbin MD was actually the first Harbin doctor to be born in Georgia on October 11 1872 at his fathers farm in Gordon County He received an AB degree from the University of Georgia in 1894 and a Medical Doctorate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College of New York City in 1897