Lancaster General Health

“Independent contractors all payments to vendors for services provided to lancaster general health are paid by lancaster general hospital (23-1365353), a related organization. Lancaster general hospital is the organization that issues the 1099 forms to the vendors. -----------------------”

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

“Detail of members or stockholders the business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by a board of twelve (12) to seventeen (17) trustees, who shall be natural persons of full age. The number of trustees shall include ex officio trustees. Trustees need not be residents of pennsylvania. -----------------------”

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

“Decisions requiring approval by members or stockholders lancaster general health 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. -----------------------”

“Form 990 review process information related to this organization's form 990 filing was gathered and the return was prepared by the finance staff. The controller and select members of the finance management team reviewed the completed form 990. 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 health 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 health, situations which may give rise to an actual or potential conflict of interest as described in the policy. -----------------------”

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

“Compensation process 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 so as to determine merit and incentive pa 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. -----------------------”

“Joint venture policy the organization has the policies and procedures in place as mentioned in form 990, part vi, section b, line 14 and 16b. However, they are not currently approved by the governing board. -----------------------”

“Documents availability to the public lancaster general health does not make the governing documents, conflict of interest policy, or financial statements available to the public. -----------------------”

“Compensation of officers, directors, trustees the lancaster general health board term runs july 1 to june 30. The following individuals listed on 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) 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. 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. -----------------------”

“Detail of other changes in net assets $ 30,228 change in fair value of perpetual trust 879,309 other non-operating income-pension 2,129,949 related party transfers -------------- $ 3,039,486 total -----------------------”

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