Kansas City, Kan. — Kansas University Hospital is celebrating a milestone in fundraising for its Cambridge North Tower project.

The hospital has met a $10 million challenge grant ahead of the June 30 deadline, KU Hospital announced Monday. In 2014 philanthropist Annette Bloch announced a $10 million gift to support cancer services in the new building, but with the stipulation that the hospital match her gift with other contributions.

Artist's rendering of the planned Cambridge North Tower expansion project at Kansas University Hospital.

“I knew the support for the hospital was so great it could meet this challenge,” Bloch said, in a news release from KU Hospital. “This project is vital to expanding access to cancer services in surgical oncology, as well cancer and other services in neurosciences and ear, nose and throat. Demand in these areas is growing at a rapid rate and the hospital needs the facilities and technology to meet the needs of these patients.”

The $350 million Cambridge North Tower is under construction at 39th and Cambridge streets, just northeast of the existing hospital buildings. The first section will be finished in 2017, with a four-floor expansion scheduled for completion in 2018.

The hospital has now raised $43 million of its goal of $100 million in private donations for the project, according to KU Hospital.

Annette Bloch gave $20 million to the hospital in 2008 to expand cancer services. She and her late husband, Richard, established the R. A. Bloch Cancer Foundation in 1980.