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.