Polk Medical Center Receives $50,000 From Colony Bank

On: December 14, 2022

CEDARTOWN, Ga., December 12, 2022 – Colony Bank has donated $50,000 to Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center through the Georgia HEART Hospital Program.

Polk Medical Center is one of 55 hospitals in Georgia that qualify to receive funds through the program, which allows individual donors to receive a Georgia income tax credit. Hospitals must use the contributions for health care-related purposes, including capital expenditures.

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