May 1st, 2024 – 3:10 PM
Press Release –
A grant of $250,000 from Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation helped complete work on Cedartown’s Peek Forest Park Playground. The playground opened to the public on Saturday, April 27.
The foundation is the supporting agency for grants distributed through Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Medical
Center. Funds were used to install a new accessible playground at the park, complete with a play structure
designed to look like an Atrium Health Floyd ambulance.
Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation chair Mary Helen Heaner addressed the crowd gathered for the
playground opening.
“This is an exciting day for myself, for our Foundation, and for Atrium-Health Floyd Polk Medical Center,
through whom these funds are granted, and this community,” she said. “Having a safe place for children to
play and families to spend time together is important to our physical and mental health. It is incredibly
gratifying to know this playground will directly benefit the health of this community.”
Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation was established in 2021 as a result of the strategic combination of
Floyd Medical Center and Atrium Health.
Investment earnings on the Foundation corpus of $167.27 million
are used to fund projects that address disparities in health, access to health care, and health improvement
programs.
