John Muir Nabs $10M for Expansion

August 14, 2009
San Francisco Business Times
By Chris Rauber

John Muir Health, through its Walnut Creek-based John Muir Health Foundation, has scored a $10 million gift to help fund a $170 million expansion project at its Concord medical campus. The gift, from the K.H. Hofmann Foundation, is said to be the largest ever for the two-hospital system.

The Hofmann Foundation this month made the contribution to John Muir's "Breaking New Ground Right Here" capital campaign. In recognition of the "historic gift," officials said the new five-story patient care tower at John Muir Medical Center's Concord Campus will be named in honor of philanthropists Jean and Ken Hofmann, former co-owner of the Oakland Athletics.

"We are deeply appreciative of the (Hofmanns') generosity," Milt Smith, president of the Muir foundation, said in a statement provided to the Business Times late last week, sentiments echoed by Ken Anderson, the hospital system's longtime president and CEO.

Muir said the Hofmanns have been generous donors in the past, funding the first da Vinci surgical robots at Muir's Concord campus in 2002 and providing philanthropic support for the John Muir Cancer Center.

(Posted August 14, 2009)