The Lutheran sister hospitals: Dupont, the Orthopedic Hospital, Rehabilitation, and Children's

2001 — today

A network takes shape: Lutheran Health Network's Fort Wayne hospitals beyond the Jefferson Boulevard flagship are specialty and neighborhood institutions, each documented in brief. Dupont Hospital, at 2520 East Dupont Road on the city's north side, opened in April 2001 with 131 beds, as a joint venture between the network and more than 260 local physicians; it was promoted at its opening — and the claim is carried as the network's own — as Fort Wayne's first physician-designed hospital and its first all-digital hospital, and it appears on Becker's 2014 list of physician-designed hospitals on that footing. The Orthopedic Hospital, on the Jefferson campus, is the network's orthopedic specialty hospital — a distinct institution from Parkview Ortho Hospital on the north campus, the two systems having built an orthopedic hospital each. The Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne, at 7970 West Jefferson Boulevard, is the network's inpatient rehabilitation hospital. Lutheran Children's Hospital is not a separate building: it is the pediatric hospital within Lutheran Hospital on Jefferson Boulevard, carrying the region's pediatric inpatient and intensive care units. And the network's newest Fort Wayne hospital is the one that closed this section's first story: Lutheran Downtown Hospital, opened 13 November 2021 on the St. Joseph site downtown, whose founding belongs to the St. Joseph entry above. The Current record carries the network's present-day shape — Lutheran, Dupont, the Orthopedic Hospital, and Children's under Community Health Systems — as the standing map.

Sources:

1. Becker's Hospital Review (2014) — Dupont Hospital's April 2001 opening, 131 beds, the joint venture with more than 260 physicians, and the first-physician-designed and first all-digital claims as the network's own.
2. Lutheran Health Network — the Orthopedic Hospital and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Fort Wayne (7970 West Jefferson Boulevard), and Lutheran Children's Hospital as the pediatric hospital within Lutheran Hospital.
3. Current section of this history — the Lutheran network's Fort Wayne composition under Community Health Systems of Franklin, Tennessee.