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Parkview belongs in this section as the exception that defines the rule. Fort Wayne's largest health system is wealthy — more than $2 billion in annual revenue since 2019, and the region's largest employer with more than 16,000 employees — but no founding family fortune stands behind it. It descends institutionally from the Fort Wayne City Hospital of 1878, through Hope Hospital (1891–1922) and Methodist Hospital (1922–1953) to Parkview Memorial Hospital in 1953, and it is a nonprofit, community-owned system. Its benefactors are the community at large: the Parkview Health Foundation channels broad public giving — nursing scholarships, equipment funds, annual golf-classic proceeds — rather than one family's endowment, and Parkview's own community reports record $22.4 million in charitable contributions and public service in a single year (2014). In a section organized by family fortunes, Parkview is the modern form: institutional wealth, publicly held.
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- Parkview Health fact sheet and system history — roots in the 1878 City Hospital; not-for-profit, community-owned; the Parkview Health Foundation.
- Parkview Health Community Engagement Report (2014) — $22,394,374 in charitable contributions and public service.
- Parkview Health (Wikipedia, from system reports) — revenue above $2 billion since 2019; more than 16,000 employees.