Parents have a safer way of transporting kids with IVs around the hospital now thanks to Georgia Heritage Bank, Grand’s Convenience Store and the City of Hiram. Pictured L-R: Marilyn Camp, RN; Vicky Hogue, vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer at WellStar Paulding Hospital; Genevieve Cole, Georgia Heritage Bank president; and sisters, Kylie and Caroline Roblero.
Roger Leggett engineered IV brackets and affixed them to red wagons to help parents transport their children around the hospital with safer and smoother mobility. The wagons were funded by Grand’s Convenience Store, Georgia Heritage Bank and the City of Hiram.
Roger and his son, Chad Leggett, came up with the concept for the wagons when Chad’s four-year-old daughter, Felicity, was in surgery for a brain tumor. While the father and grandfather waited, they witnessed a mother struggling to get her child, seated in a wagon, and a separate IV pole into an elevator. The pole crashed to the ground. Seeing this, the father and son came up with the concept of IV-friendly red wagons.
Three weeks after Felicity’s successful surgery, Chad died unexpectedly. Roger continued pursuing the idea they had dreamed up together with the assistance of friends at Lockheed Martin and Chattahoochee Technical College welding students. He named the new product Chad’s Brackets in his son’s memory.
Now, thanks to Roger, Chad, and the businesses that funded the wagons, young patients and their parents have safer modes of inhospital transportation at WellStar Paulding Hospital.
WellStar Paulding Hospital houses an Emergency Department (ED) just for kids, providing comprehensive, child-focused care. This commitment to providing the highest-level of pediatric care furthers WellStar’s mission to taking care of the entire family.

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Recognized as the fifth most integrated healthcare delivery system in the country, WellStar Health System is the largest notfor- profit health system in Georgia and serves a population of more than 1.4 million residents in five counties. The vision of WellStar is to deliver world-class healthcare. A national leader in the transformation of healthcare delivery, WellStar launched the Center for Health Transformation and the Georgia Health Collaborative that will have far-reaching effects on healthcare both locally and nationally. WellStar includes WellStar Kennestone Regional Medical Center (anchored by WellStar Kennestone Hospital) and WellStar Cobb, Douglas, Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; WellStar Medical Group; Urgent Care Centers; Health Parks; Pediatric Center; Health Place; Homecare; Hospice; Atherton Place; Paulding Nursing and Rehabilitation Center; and the WellStar Foundation. For more information, call 770-956-STAR or visit wellstar. org.