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By Ben Sutherly, Staff Writer Updated 8:48 PM Thursday, May 6, 2010

KETTERING — Kettering Health Network hopes to maintain its trajectory as a rising institution in the region under the successor to Francisco J. “Frank” Perez, the man who oversaw the hospital system’s growth over 16 years and worked to make it a more engaged corporate citizen.

Perez, 66, announced Thursday, May 6, that he will retire on May 15, 2011. The hospital has hired Integrated Healthcare Strategies to look both internally and nationwide for the hospital system’s next CEO.

KHN is looking for someone much like Perez who’s comfortable in interacting with the community, said Candice Christenson, a KHN board member. The successor, like Perez, will be a Seventh Day Adventist, in keeping with the Kettering family’s wishes, she said.

“We’re not looking for someone who wants the title,” Christenson said. “We’re looking for somebody who wants this community to be a part of their lives, who invests themselves personally.”

Perez joined the network in May 1994 . During his tenure, KHN said its hospitals’ collective market share in Montgomery County grew from 28.5 percent in 1994 to more than 45 percent today. The company has more than 8,000 employees.

Perez also presided over Kettering and Sycamore medical centers’ series of affiliations with other hospitals . Just this week, he announced the largest gift in network history as part of the naming of a new Beavercreek hospital for longtime philanthropists Indu and Raj Soin.

Perez credited his management team.

“No one person could have achieved the accolades,” he said.

During his tenure, the number of staffed beds within the network grew from 630 to 979. Operating revenue at Kettering and Sycamore medical centers grew from $191.3 million in 1994 to $944.4 million in 2009. Patient discharges grew from 17,552 in 1994 to 43,932 in 2009.

Contact this reporter at (937) 225-7457 or bsutherly@DaytonDailyNews.com.

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