Parkview becomes a system: 1995, the north campus, and the Regional Medical Center of 2012

System incorporated May 1995 — PRMC opened March 2012

From one hospital to fifteen: For four decades Parkview was a single hospital on Randallia. The system era began in May 1995, when Parkview Health System, Inc. was incorporated and the hospitals at Columbia City (Parkview Whitley) and Huntington joined it; Parkview Noble followed in 2000, Parkview LaGrange in 2005, Parkview Wabash in 2015, and Parkview DeKalb in 2019, with further hospitals — Bryan and Montpelier in Ohio among them, and Parkview Logansport in 2025 — bringing the system to fifteen hospitals in its 2026 fact sheet. Two Fort Wayne specialty hospitals belong to this record. Parkview Ortho Hospital, a joint venture between Parkview Health and Ortho NorthEast, opened on 18 June 2001 on the north campus — the first specialty hospital in northeast Indiana devoted solely to orthopedic surgery, at 37 beds; it is a different institution from Lutheran's Orthopedic Hospital across town, and the two are not to be merged. Parkview Behavioral Health, the system's inpatient psychiatric hospital, stands at 105 beds in the 2026 fact sheet. The system's center of gravity moved north in a single day. Construction of Parkview Regional Medical Center, on the I-69 corridor campus at Dupont Road, began in September 2008; the contemporary cost figures conflict — $536 million in the project reporting of its builders and bankers, against the $575 million carried in this history's Current section — and the bed counts in the builders' accounts conflict as well, 410 in one and 446 in another. What the press record fixes is the opening: the Journal Gazette's account, copied by the genealogical society, dates the first patients to March 2012 — the hospital opened on 17 March 2012 in Parkview's and most contemporary accounts, with one account giving 18 March — when 120 patients were relocated from Randallia to the new towers in a single coordinated move. Randallia stayed open, and Parkview became, what it remains, a two-campus hospital inside Fort Wayne and a regional system beyond it: the largest employer in the region, at more than 17,500 co-workers in its 2026 fact sheet, with the dated employment figures carried in the Current record.

Sources:

1. Parkview Health fact sheets (2023–2026) — incorporation of Parkview Health System, Inc. in May 1995; Whitley and Huntington joining in 1995, Noble 2000, LaGrange 2005, Wabash 2015, DeKalb 2019; fifteen hospitals in 2026 including Parkview Logansport (2025); more than 17,500 co-workers; Parkview Behavioral Health at 105 beds.
2. Parkview Ortho Hospital fact sheet (Parkview Health, 2026) — opened 18 June 2001, a joint venture of Parkview Health and Ortho NorthEast, 82,090 square feet, 37 inpatient beds, the first specialty hospital in northeast Indiana devoted solely to orthopedics.
3. JLL and HKS project accounts of Parkview Regional Medical Center — construction from September 2008 and the $536 million budget, against the $575 million in the Current record; bed counts of 410 (JLL) and 446 (HKS) as printed.
4. Journal Gazette account of the PRMC opening, copied by ACGSI — 120 patients relocated on opening day in March 2012 (the account as copied gives 18 March; Parkview and most contemporary accounts give 17 March 2012).
5. Current section of this history — the dated GFW Inc. employment figures (November 2024) and the two-campus Fort Wayne map.