Hospice Association of Cape Codinc DBA Hospice & Palliative Care of Cape Cod

“Hopehealth massachusetts merged into hopehealth hospice & palliative care ("hhhpc") and all assets, liabilities and net assets were transferred to hhhpc.”

“The sole member of hopehealth massachusetts is hopehealth.”

“The organization's board shall consist of between seven and twenty-five persons. The president of the member shall also serve on the board, ex officio, without vote. The directors shall be nominated by hh-ma's board and elected by the member's board of directors at the member's annual meeting.”

“The powers of the member shall be limited to taking action on the activities enumerated below and those activities expressly requiring action of the member pursuant to law, the articles of incorporation or elsewhere in the bylaws. The following actions shall require the approval of the hhma's board and approval by the member's board of directors: (a) amending the corporation's articles of incorporation or these bylaws; (b) authorizing (1) the merger, affiliation or consolidation of hhma with any other entity; (2) the sale, lease, exchange, mortgage, pledge or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property and assets of hhma; or (3) the voluntary dissolution of hhma, the plan of distribution of assets upon dissolution and revocation of voluntary dissolution proceedings; (c) causing hhma to commence bankruptcy, receivership or other insolvency proceedings, or assigning for the benefit of creditors all or substantially all of the assets of hhma; (d) establishing a clinical service line or affiliate of hhma that is not currently in existence, or changing in any material manner any service line responsibilities that may be agreed in writing among the member, hhma and any of the member's other subsidiaries, as such term is defined in the member's bylaws; (e) hiring or termination of hhma's president/chief executive officer; (f) entering into any loan agreement or otherwise incurring unbudgeted debt in excess of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) and entering into a mortgage, pledge or grant of a security interest in property or assets of hhma in connection with any such indebtedness; and (g) adopting the annual operating and capital budgets of hhma, including any revisions thereto during the fiscal year.”

“At the time the return was filed the board had been dissolved. The final return was prepared by an outside accounting firm and reviewed by management prior to filing.”

“At or prior to consideration by the board or a committee of a matter, transaction or arrangement as to which any director, officer, member, employee or volunteer has a potential conflict of interest, the individual having such conflict shall disclose the same to the board / committee, compliance officer if employee or volunteer as the case may be. If it is determined that an actual conflict of interest exists, the individual with such conflict shall not be present during discussion or voting on such matter as relates to the conflict. Approval of any transaction or arrangement that involves a conflict shall involve a consensus of those remaining that the transaction is in the interests of the organization and for its benefit, is fair and reasonable to the organization, and that the organization could not obtain a more advantageous transaction or arrangement with reasonable effort. The board or committee may, if deemed appropriate, appoint a non-interested committee or individual to investigate alternatives to such transaction or arrangement. The board shall, in the case of violation of this policy by any individual take such disciplinary or other corrective action as is necessary to protect the interests of organization. The minutes of the board and committee meetings shall record disclosures and other proceedings described above, including the names of all persons present and participating therein and all determination, made pursuant to such procedures. Annually all conflict of interest disclosure statements will be reviewed at a minimum, by the president/chief executive office and chairman of the board to ensure that such conflicts are reasonable and consistent with general knowledge and understanding.”

“The compensation committee of the board of directors reviews salaries for the ceo and other key members of senior leadership. The process includes periodic procurement of comparability data from external independent sources including the review of form 990 of other organizations. The board of directors review and approve the salary of the ceo and annually approves the budget which includes salaries for the other members of the senior management team. Sullivancotter was retained by the compensation committee (committee) of the board of directors (board) of hopehealth to conduct a competitive assessment of the total compensation program for its top leadership positions. The market data are compiled from reliable and independent surveys. The data were drawn from national published compensation surveys and regional irs form 990 data (if available).”

“Hopehealth massachusetts, inc. Makes available its governing documents, conflict of interest policies, and financial statements available for public inspection, upon request, at its administrative office location in providence, ri.”

“Hopehealth massachusetts, inc. ("hh-ma") ceased providing its outpatient hospice operations serving the cape cod and island communities and its inpatient hospice services at the mccarthy care center ("mcc") effective january 31, 2019. Subsequent to receiving approval from the massachusetts supreme judicial court, hh-ma transferred mcc property to cape cod healthcare ("cchc") on september 24, 2019. Hh-ma ceased operating as a separate legal entity and merged it's operations into hope health & palliative care rhode island ("hhhpc"). Prior to ceasing activities hh-ma touched the lives of people coping with serious illness with dedicated services and special support.”

“Contract labor: program service expenses 19,145. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 19,145. Therapy expense: program service expenses 55,223. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 55,223. Ambulance expense: program service expenses 10,367. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 10,367. Imaging services: program service expenses -6,964. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses -6,964. Outpatient & er services: program service expenses 7,610. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 7,610. Laboratory & diagnostic expense: program service expenses 6,711. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 6,711. Other patient expense: program service expenses 122. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 122. Inpatient services: program service expenses 103,439. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 103,439. Respite services: program service expenses 7,206. Management and general expenses 0. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 7,206. Contracted services: program service expenses 2,384. Management and general expenses 12,747. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 15,131.”

“Transfer of net assets to hhhpc -1,400,364.”

“The audit and finance committee of the board of directors is charged with the responsibility for the selection of hopehealth's independent auditors, and for the oversight of the audit of its financial statements.”