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2012 — the Mirro gift; the health foundations' record runs 1998–today
The documented gift: Fort Wayne's hospitals are systems, not charities of the old kind, and their documented major gifts are correspondingly few. The landmark is the Mirro Family Foundation's 1 million dollar lead gift, announced in July 2012, for the research and education center Parkview built at its new regional medical center — the Parkview Mirro Center for Research and Innovation, named for Dr. Michael Mirro, the Fort Wayne cardiologist, and his wife Jeanne. The gift came through the Parkview Health Foundation, the channel through which the system's broad public giving runs; the foundation's record, and the health foundations created by the hospital sales of the 1990s, are in the Nonprofits and Hospitals sections and are not rewritten here.
What does not count: Parkview's published community-benefit figures — the hundreds of millions the system reports in uncompensated care and community programs — are accounting categories from its tax filings, not gifts, and they appear in no table in this section. The same discipline excludes the Packnett Family Cancer Institute's name: the institute honors Parkview's chief executive Mike Packnett and his family, Donna Packnett's advocacy being part of its public story, but no source reached by this section documents a Packnett family gift or its amount, and the name is recorded here without one. Lutheran Health's documented record shows a hospital built by congregational fundraising in 1903–04 and sold twice since; no single major donor gift to Lutheran surfaces in the record reached, and the Kachmann Auditorium there is, like the family's other naming gifts, documented without a published figure.
Sources:
- AroundFortWayne (3 July 2012) — the Mirro Family Foundation's 1 million dollar lead gift to Parkview.
- Parkview Health Foundation and Parkview Health records, as compiled in the Nonprofits and Hospitals sections of this history.