Bergen Community Regional Blood Center Inc

“The organization's federal form 990 was provided to each voting member of the organization's governing body prior to filing with the irs. The organization's governing body is its board of trustees. The organization's board of trustees has assumed the responsibility to oversee, review and approve of the federal form 990, including the preparation, review and filing process. As part of the tax return preparation process the organization hired hunter group cpa, llc, a professional cpa firm with experience and expertise in both healthcare and not-for-profit tax return preparation, to prepare the federal form 990. The cpa firm's tax professionals worked closely with the organization's finance personnel and various other individuals of the organization to obtain the information needed in order to prepare a complete and accurate tax return. The cpa firm prepared a draft federal form 990 and furnished it to the organization's finance personnel and other individuals for their review. The organization's finance personnel and other individuals reviewed the draft federal form 990 and discussed questions and comments with the cpa firm. Revisions were made to the draft federal form 990 where necessary and a final draft was furnished by the cpa firm to the organization's finance personnel and various other individuals for final review and approval prior to presentation of the federal form 990 to each voting member of the organization's governing body.”

“The organization regularly monitors and enforces compliance with its conflict of interest policy. Annually all members of the board of trustees, offices, senior management and other key personnel are required to review the existing conflict of interest policy and complete a questionnaire. The completed questionnaires are returned to the organization's compliance officer for review. The compliance officer prepares a summary of the completed questionnaires which contains information disclosed on an individual by individual basis. This summary is then given to the organization's vice president of human resources and the president/chief executive officer for review. Thereafter, the president/chief executive officer of the organization presents this summary to the system's governance committee for its review and discussion.”

“The organization's board of trustees reviews and approves of the compensation and benefits of the organization's president and chief executive officer. The reviews by the board of trustees are done on at least an annual basis and ensures that the compensation is reasonable. The board of trustees relied upon appropriate comparable data; specifically the board of trustees obtained independent salary survey information of similar organizations throughout the united states. This included comparable geographic and demographic market data including but not limited to similarly sized organizations and revenue. The compensation and benefits of other individuals contained in this form 990 are reviewed annually by the president and chief executive officer with assistance from the organization's vice president of human resources in conjuction with each individual's job performance during the year and is based upon other objective factors designed to ensure that reasonable and fair market value compensation is paid by the organization. Other objective factors may include market survey data for comparable positions, individual goals and objectives, personnel reviews, evaluations, self-evaluations and perfomance feed back meetings. The organization makes available a performance management system for annual reviews.”

“The organization's filed certificate of incorporation and any amendments can be obtained and reviewed through the state of new jersey department of the treasury.”

“Part vii and schedule j reflect certain board members and officers receiving compensation and benefits from this organization. Please note this renumeration was for services rendered as full-time employees of this organization and not for services rendered as a voting member or officer of this organization's board of trustees.”

“An independent cpa firm(s) audited the consolidated financial statements of the organization for the years ended december 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively, and issued unqualified opinions in both years. The organization's board of trustees assumes responsibility for oversight of the audit of its financial statements and the selection of an independent auditor.”