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IN RE ESTATE OF ELKINS

Nos. 2147 EDA 2009, 2598 EDA 2009, 2618 EDA 2009, 2763 EDA 2009, 2775 EDA 2009, 2780 EDA 2009, 2786 EDA 2009

32 A.3d 768 (2011)

2011 PA Super 194

In re ESTATE OF George W. ELKINS, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of Temple University Hospital, Appellant. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of Jefferson Health System and All Entities Associated With Jefferson Health System, Appellants. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Appellant. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, Appellant. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of Girard Medical Center of the North Philadelphia Health System, Appellant. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust for Hahnemann Hospital Under Item 17(B), Appellees. Appeal of Albert Einstein Medical Center and All Entities Associated With Albert Einstein Medical Center, Appellants. In re Estate of George W. Elkins, Deceased, Sur Trust f/b/o Hahnemann Hospital, Appellees. Appeal of St. Joseph's Hospital of the North Philadelphia Health System, Appellant.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed September 1, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. McDonald , Jamison, for Temple University Hospital, appellant.

Thomas K. Johnson, II , Philadelphia, for Albert Einstein Healthcare, appellant.

Patrick M. Northen , Philadelphia, for Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, appellant.

Benjamin R. Neilson , Philadelphia, for Estate of Elkins, appellee.

Lawrence Barth , Philadelphia, for Office of Attorney General, appellant.

Jennifer L. Nevins , Reading, for Pennsylvania Hospital, appellant.

Margaret E.W. Sager , West Conshohocken , Nancy L. Winkelman , Philadelphia, for Philadelphia Health & Education, appellant.

John D. Kutzler , Philadelphia, for St. Joseph's Hospital and Girard Medical Center, appellant.

Marvin L. Wilenzik , Blue Bell, for Thomas Jefferson Health System, appellant.

BEFORE: STEVENS, P.J., BENDER, BOWES, PANELLA, DONOHUE, SHOGAN, MUNDY, OTT, and FREEDBERG, JJ.

OPINION BY BOWES, J.:

Appellants herein are various Philadelphia-area hospitals contesting the orphans' court's determination that Appellee, the Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation ("PHEC"), is the appropriate cy pres beneficiary of a trust created under the last will and testament of George W. Elkins. We affirm.

This matter enjoys a complex procedural background, which we must outline to promote a better understanding of the issues presented...

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