IV-Friendly Wagons Improve Kids' Ride at WellStar Paulding

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Submitted article

Parents have a safer way of transporting kids around the pediatric emergency department at WellStar Paulding Hospital thanks to a bright idea by a local man and the generosity of local businesses.

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 in-hospital 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.

— Submitted by WellStar Health System