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Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation Grants $250,000 to Cedartown's Peek Forest Park Playground Project

Funds Distributed Through Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Medical Center

Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation Grants $250,000 to Cedartown's Peek Forest Park Playground Project

ROME, GA., May 1, 2024 – 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 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 of health, access to health care and health-improvement programs.

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-Polk Foundation

Atrium Health Floyd-Polk Foundation is a 501(c)(3), not-for-profit corporation established in 2021 with $167.27 million in assets realized from the strategic combination of the Floyd health care system and Atrium Health. The mission of the foundation is to serve as a trusted regional resource partner by investing in community organizations to drive transformational change in health and well-being for all. The primary focus of the foundation is to address disparities of care in the service areas of Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center and Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center.

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 Atrium Health

Atrium Health is a nationally recognized leader in shaping health outcomes through innovative research, education and compassionate patient care. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Atrium Health is part of Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, which was created from the combination with Advocate Aurora Health. A recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research, Wake Forest University School of Medicine is its academic core. Atrium Health is renowned for its top-ranked pediatric, cancer and heart care, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Atrium Health is also a leading-edge innovator in virtual care and mobile medicine, providing care close to home and in the home. Ranked nationally among U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals in eight pediatric specialties and for rehabilitation, Atrium Health has also received the American Hospital Association's Quest for Quality Prize and its 2021 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award, as well as the 2020 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Award for its efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in care. With a commitment to every community it serves, Atrium Health seeks to improve health, elevate hope and advance healing – for all, providing $2.8 billion last year in free and uncompensated care and other community benefits.