Lancaster General Hospital

“Detail of family or business relationship gary a. Welch, officer, and jordan d. Space, trustee, have a family relationship. -----------------------”

“Classes of members or stockholders the sole member of lancaster general hospital is lancaster general health. The sole member may initiate and implement any proposal with respect to any of the following; amendment of charter, certificate of articles of incorporation or bylaws; sale, purchase, lease or encumbrance with debt; the transfer of any assets of the corporation,excluding equipment; election or removal of the board of trustees of the corporation; the approval of the annual operating and capital budgets of the corporation; the approval of investment advisors, outside legal counsel, and auditors of the corporation; and the approval of non-budgeted expenditures. ---------------------------”

“Members or stockholders electing members of governing body lancaster general health elects the board of trustees of lancaster general hospital. ---------------------------”

“Review of form 990 by governing body information related to this organization's form 990 filing was gathered and the return was prepared by the finance staff. The cfo, controller, and select members of the finance management team reviewed the completed form 990 and it was then provided to pwc us tax llp for their review. In addition, the members of the governing body were given the opportunity to view the 990 online via the board portal system prior to the filing. -------------------------”

“Review of form 990 by governing body information related to this organization's form 990 filing was gathered and the return was prepared by the finance staff. The cfo, controller, and select members of the finance management team reviewed the completed form 990 and it was then provided to pwc us tax llp for their review. In addition, the members of the governing body were given the opportunity to view the 990 online via the board portal system prior to the filing. -------------------------”

“Conflict of interest policy in order to ascertain and evaluate actual or potential conflicts, certain interested persons are required to fill out a conflict of interest disclosure statement upon entering employment or becoming a trustee of lancaster general hospital or an affiliate, and others are also required to fill out such a statement on an annual basis. In addition to this requirement, all officers and trustees, regardless of whether or not they have filled out or have been asked to fill out a conflict of interest disclosure statement, have an ongoing affirmative duty to bring to the attention of lancaster general hospital situations which may give rise to an actual or potential conflict of interest as described in the policy. ---------------------------”

“Documentation retention and destruction policy the organization has the policies and procedures in place as mentioned in form 990, part vi, section b, lines 14 & 16b. However, they are not currently approved by the governing body. ---------------------------”

“Process to establish compensation of top management official lancaster general health's executive compensation process includes the following review and action by the executive committee of the board of trustees which is comprised of independent trustees. An evaluation of performance against goals is conducted at the close of a fiscal year to determine the level of organizational and individual performance of the ceo and senior executives as to determine merit and incentive pay actions. Market data for base salary, total cash compensation and total compensation is provided by an independent third party to the committee and reflects a market basket of similarly sized organizations with comparable executive positions. Upon review and discussion of the related data and information the committee takes action which is recorded in the meeting minutes which are then filed for future reference. ---------------------------”

“Required documents available to the public lancaster general hospital does not make the governing documents or conflict of interest policy available to the public. The financial statements are available to the public, as they are required to be included with form 990, schedule h. ---------------------------”

“Compensation of officers, directors, trustees the hours noted in column (b) relate to the hours dedicated to the filing organization and/or to other organizations within the lancaster general health system during the time period in which they served. The hours disclosed relate to time served on a board and/or for services provided resulting in compensation paid. Members of the board are not compensated for their position on the board. Compensation disclosed relates to other services performed. The lancaster general hospital board term runs july 1 to june 30. The following individuals listed on form 990, part vii, section a either started or termed during the june 30, 2024 fiscal year: toni donovan (termed 09/05/2023) edward j. Maloney (termed 05/30/2024) donise a. Musheno (started 07/01/2023) matthew e. Parido (started 07/01/2023) douglas w. Rinehart (termed 11/12/2023) lawrence f. Strassner,iii (termed 07/05/2023) gary a. Welch (started 12/04/2023) linda a. Welker (started 12/10/2023) timothy c. Zellers (started 12/10/2023) compensation listed on form 990, part vii, section a and schedule j, part ii reflects compensation for calendar year 2023. ------------------------”

“Description of other program services all other program services, including but not limited to; laboratory, radiology, emergency medicine, education and physical medicine and rehabilitation. Lgh operates an emergency department (er) that is open to all persons regardless of ability to pay. The emergency department had a total of 100,881 visits during fiscal year 2024. Total patient days for the fiscal year were 180,295. Medicare and medicaid patients contributed 15,558 and 5,213, respectively, towards the 31,293 total inpatient discharges during the fiscal year. ---------------------------”

“Exempt purpose achievements lancaster general hospital will identify community health needs; help reach community consensus on health care priorities; develop programs (where possible together with other community organizations) to address these needs; develop and maintain metrics to measure our progress; and report out activity to the board of trustees and the community at large. Financial means should not prevent anyone from accessing healthcare services. To that end, lancaster general hospital has established financial assistance programs for those with little or no insurance, or limited financial means. Lancaster general hospital incurred unpaid costs of $105.2m to care for financially disadvantaged persons. Lancaster general hospital engages in medical research programs. Lancaster general hospital engages in training and education of health care professionals at an unpaid cost of $10.9m. ---------------------------”

“Audited financial statements the financial information for lancaster general health and its affiliates, including lancaster general hospital was included in the university of pennsylvania's combined financial statements and audited on a consolidated basis. ---------------------------”

“Detail of other changes in net assets $ (109,272,622) related party transfers (8,043,256) interest in transfers-charitable gift annuities 528,793 other non-operating income (expense) --------------- $ (116,787,085) total ---------------------------”