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Hospital expansion gets $4.4M donation

The new main lobby at Kootenai Health is dedicated to Hugh McCall for his legacy gift of $4.4 million to benefit the hospital expansion. (From Left) Liese Razzeto, Kootenai Health Board of Trustees chair; Mike Chapman, Kootenai Health Foundation Board of Directors chair; and Jon Ness, Kootenai Health CEO.
By D.F. Oliveria daveo@spokesman.com(509) 319-0354
The new main lobby at Kootenai Health is dedicated to Hugh McCall for his legacy gift of $4.4 million to benefit the hospital expansion. (From Left) Liese Razzeto, Kootenai Health Board of Trustees chair; Mike Chapman, Kootenai Health Foundation Board of Directors chair; and Jon Ness, Kootenai Health CEO.
The new main lobby at Kootenai Health is dedicated to Hugh McCall for his legacy gift of $4.4 million to benefit the hospital expansion. (From Left) Liese Razzeto, Kootenai Health Board of Trustees chair; Mike Chapman, Kootenai Health Foundation Board of Directors chair; and Jon Ness, Kootenai Health CEO.

The lobby of Kootenai Health’s new east addition will be dedicated in honor of a philanthropist and former North Idaho resident who donated $4.4 million to the hospital’s foundation. Douglas Hugh McCall, who worked in the oil industry and died in 2004, left the money to the Kootenai Health Foundation, which received the gift in 2010 and 2011 after the death of McCall’s second wife. He suggested the foundation invest the funds in something big to benefit health care in the area. “This major gift may be the largest single private donation in our community’s history,” Mike Chapman, Kootenai Health Foundation board chair, said Tuesday in a news release announcing the donation/ Scott Maben , SR. More here .

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