A rendering of the new 30-bed, $150 million hospital and medical office facility Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health plans to build in Lebanon. (Image provided by Parkview Health)
Fort Wayne-based Parkview Health on Tuesday announced plans to build a $150 million, 30-bed hospital and medical office building in Lebanon on the city’s south side near Interstate 65 and State Road 39.
Parkview said work on the 108,000-square foot hospital and 30,000-square foot medical office building is expected to begin next year with the hospital opening in summer 2028, creating about 200 health care jobs.
The new facility will become the second inpatient hospital in fast-growing Boone County, joining Witham Health Services, a county system that has roughly 60-bed hospital in Lebanon.
Parkview’s news comes less than a month after it said it would build a $200 million hospital in West Lafayette.
The Fort Wayne health system said it sees a growth opportunity in fast-growing Boone County.
“We looked at that community and felt like there was a need, and there’s going to be an evolving need in the coming years,” Parkview Chief Growth Markets Officer John Bowen told IBJ. “We felt like a hospital the size of what we have planned for today meets the needs of what’s in that community, but also serves the future.
“And it does align with the strategies that we have as we move up by [Interstate] 65 all the way to West Lafayette.”
Plans for the new Lebanon hospital include a 24-hour emergency department; inpatient medical, surgical and specialty care; a medical office building housing primary and specialty care; an outpatient diagnostics and a shared employer clinic where Parkview partners with employers for worker health and wellness.
Parkview is focusing on providing health care services along I-65 corridor, including the 9,000-acre LEAP Lebanon Research and Innovation District, which is home to huge developments by Eli Lilly and Co. and Meta.
The new still-to-be-named Parkview hospital will be built in the Hickory Junction development that includes the 200,000-square-foot Farmers Bank Fieldhouse at 505 S. SR 39, just south of I- 65 Exit 139. The facility features basketball courts, pickleball courts, one turf field, and pitching and hitting tunnels.
Parkview Sports Medicine has committed to providing sports performance services in the fieldhouse starting in 2026.
“Access is such a crucial aspect of health care right now,” said Dr. Greg Johnson, Parkview’s chief physician executive of growth markets. “It is desirable for patients to stay local, both from our perspective as well as a patient’s perspective.”
Johnson said Parkview would look to staff its new Lebanon hospital by working with existing practices as well as hiring physicians to be employed by the system.
With a 2024 population of 78,773, Boone County has grown more than 70% since 2000, according to data from Indiana Workforce Development. Despite the growth, Boone County remains significantly smaller than its neighbor to the east, Hamilton County, with a population of almost 380,000 and hospitals from systems including IU Health, Ascension St. Vincent and Riverview Health.
“This investment will bring expanded health care access, high-quality services, and new health care options to Lebanon and Boone County,” Lebanon Mayor Matt Gentry said in written remarks. “Parkview’s commitment to Lebanon reflects the strength of our community, and we are eager to build a lasting partnership that benefits our residents for years to come.”
Parkview—along with IU Health, Ascension St. Vincent, Community Health Network and Franciscan Health—is one of the state’s so called “Big Five” hospital systems, with annual revenue of more than $2 billion.
The state’s largest hospital systems continue to expand. Indianapolis-based IU Health is building IU Health Fort Wayne, a 140-inpatient bed facility expected to open in 2027.
Parkview primarily treats patients in northeast Indiana and northwest Ohio, near its Fort Wayne base, but the hospital system has been aggressively expanding and building its brand in central Indiana this year.
Parkview last month announced that it would build a $200 million, 40-bed hospital and medical office building in West Lafayette on land acquired from the Purdue Research Foundation.
Also in July, Parkview said it was opening an orthopedics office with Orthopaedics Northeast (called ONE) in Carmel. The health system also this year began airing TV spots and other advertising in the Indianapolis market before it had a facility in the metro area.
Parkview in recent months announced two new facilities in Grant County and took over Logansport Memorial Hospital in Cass County as Parkview Logansport Hospital.
“We believe that by bringing ourselves into more markets we’re going to be able to expand access and improve health care,” Parkview’s Bowen said. “We’re really being very measured and targeted with where we identify needs with communities, whether they’re growing or they just don’t have access to health care.”
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