Raj Soin declined to disclose the size of the gift, which will go toward hospital construction.
Frank Perez, KHN’s chief executive officer, said only that the gift was eight figures, or at least $10 million. He said the largest gift the network had previously received was $8 million from Oscar Boonshoft.
Perez approached Raj Soin about being the lead donor for the project four years ago while the two were in India for the opening of a hospital named for Soin’s late father. The Soin family also has put money toward the emergency and trauma center at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton. Wright State University’s business college also is named for Raj Soin.
Bob Mills, who with business partner Sam Morgan sold the 35 acres for the hospital, and Soin are canvassing in a silent campaign for donations, Perez said.
Other naming announcements will be forthcoming, Mills said.
All told, about a third of the hospital project — which includes the $14 million price of the land — will be funded through philanthropy, Perez said. The remaining two-thirds will be covered through financing.
The cost of hospital construction and land is $125 million, and equipment will push the total project cost to $149 million.
The 90-bed, 278,000-square-foot hospital at Pentagon Boulevard and Royal Gateway is expected to be finished by early 2012. KHN’s long-range plan is to have 300 beds and 3,000 jobs on the campus.
The hospital will have a birthing center, emergency and trauma treatment, nuclear medicine, cardiac and vascular care, women’s services, intensive care, surgery and medical imaging.
Greene Memorial President Greg Henderson said the Xenia hospital will continue to have a full-service emergency room, medical imaging lab, respiratory therapy, physical therapy, inpatient rehabilitation, cardiology services and behavioral health. The size of medical and surgical units is under review, Henderson said.
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