When you have a very appealing lifestyle, a desirable location, cooperation of both city and county governments, an aggressive Chamber of Commerce, a well-trained and sufficient workforce, rich natural resources and a focus on getting to profitability rapidly, you have the necessary ingredients for a world-class community. Rome & Floyd County have all these factors and more, thus putting them at the cutting edge of progress. Floyd County has prepared itself well for future growth by setting aside prime industrial and retail spaces, and by making sure the infrastructure is adequate to support this growth. Local citizens have long known what the world is discovering about Rome -- that it is a very desirable place to live, work and do business.
        Rome, Georgia has been ranked by an independent study as the number one healthcare provider out of 193 small cities in the United States. With over 350 doctors and specialists to serve a regional population of over 500,000, the city has more physicians per capita than any other city in the state. Because of this, along with higher education, the biomedical industry has begun to flourish in Rome, offering more jobs to highly trained workers. Clinical trials in Rome are conducted at both the Harbin Clinic and the Regional Radiation Oncology Center at Rome, with additional regional and statewide clinical trials beginning in early 2004 through the Georgia Clinical Oncology Research Division of the Georgia Society of Clinical Oncologists. Harbin Clinic's 60+ trials include neurosciences, cardiovascular, pediatric, devices, infectious disease, orthopedics, rheumatology, pulmonary medicine, oncology and general medicine. The Regional Radiation Oncology Center's 110+ trials are conducted in conjunction with the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Foundation and include brain, gastrointestinal, head and neck, breast, lung, prostate and gynecology. Rome's institutes of higher learning have aided this growth and have responded by offering classes in these fields to their students, thereby insuring an even more skilled work force. In addition, several faculty members at Berry College, along with students, are researching areas of basic biology and chemistry on campus and at a variety of sites worldwide.
        As the heart of Northwest Georgia quickly becomes a major location in the Southeastern United States, Rome is very alluring to the auto industry. Some of the auto suppliers that are located and continue to prosper in the Rome & Floyd County area include the North American headquarters, research and development laboratories and the MIRS (Modular Integrated Robotic System) process for Pirelli Tire North America (high performance tires); the North American manufacturing facility of Suzuki Manufacturing of America Corporation (All-Terrain Vehicles); F & P Manufacturing (automotive suspension systems), Neaton Rome (plastic injection molding), Metaldyne (Die & Tooling), Suhner Manufacturing (flexible shafts), Wire Tech (wire harnesses), Dayton Steel (slit coil steel) and Advanced Steel Technology (steel fabrication).