Park Nicollet Foundation

“The nominees to the board of directors of the foundation must be approved by the members of the board of directors of park nicollet health services before they stand for election by the foundation board.”

“Highly significant governance decisions as specifically identified in the bylaws, such as incurring debt and dissolution of the corporation, are subject to the approval of the board of directors of park nicollet health services.”

“The foundation's 990 return has a comprehensive review process that is followed before it is presented to the governing body of the foundation. The review process includes a layered review by the tax department of group health plan, inc. (ghi), the management team of the foundation, ghi's internal legal department and the foundation's outside independent accountants. Each one of those areas has an opportunity to review, ask questions and make comments back to the tax department of ghi before the form 990 is completed and presented to the governing body of the foundation. The foundation makes available to the governing body (board of directors) a copy of the 990 for review and comment prior to the filing of the 990 return. This copy is provided in a pre-meeting packet, and is an agenda item at a meeting of the full board of directors. This process is noted and documented in the written minutes of the meeting”

“The park nicollet foundation board monitors potential conflicts of interest on the part of its board members, principal officers, members of committees with board delegated powers, and key employees ("covered persons") by maintaining a conflict of interest policy. Under the policy, covered persons annually are provided with a copy of the policy and asked to complete a questionnaire identifying any potential conflicts of interests. The general counsel of healthpartners reviews the questionnaire responses and develops a report detailing any potentially material conflicts for the president and chair of the board. A verbal summary is also given to the full board or appropriate committee ending with a reminder to covered persons of the policy's mandate that each person is obligated to disclose any new potential conflicts as they may arise throughout the year. Board agendas and executive decisions are monitored in relation to this policy. If a disclosed conflict of interest impacts an agenda item or decision, the covered person would be excluded from voting and may be excluded from receiving information and/or participating in deliberations, depending on the circumstances.”

“The park nicollet foundation has no employees and does not pay compensation. All officer and key employees are paid by park nicollet health service (pnhs), park nicollet methodist hospital, park nicollet clinic or by group health, inc (ghi) related organizations. Any compensation is determined solely by the related organizations. Therefore, part vi, section b, question 15 is not applicable to the park nicollet foundation.”

“The foundation's financial statements and 990 returns are made available to any person who requests the information from the foundation or healthpartners. The foundations articles of incorporation are available to any person who requests the information through the minnesota secretary of state's office.”

“Corporate structure, purpose, governance the park nicollet foundation (foundation) is a subsidiary of park nicollet health services (pnhs), a minnesota nonprofit corporation recognized as exempt from federal income tax under internal revenue code ("irc") section 501(c)(3). Pnhs is the parent organization to an integrated care system that includes park nicollet methodist hospital (hospital), park nicollet clinic (clinic), park nicollet health care products (products), the park nicollet foundation and tria orthopedic center (tria). Pnhs is a nonprofit, integrated care delivery system. It is staffed by nationally recognized hospital and clinic doctors, clinical professionals, nurses, and other team members who help patients stay healthy and take care of them when they are sick. Pnhs is part of the healthpartners organization, "healthpartners." founded in 1957, healthpartners is an integrated health care organization, providing health care services and health plan financing and administration. Healthpartners' mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients, and community. Healthpartners seeks to transform health care through a relentless focus on the triple aim - providing exceptional experience for the individual, improving the health of the population, and maintaining affordability. Healthpartners, inc. (hpi) is a minnesota nonprofit corporation and licensed health maintenance organization (hmo) recognized as exempt from federal income tax under internal revenue code (irc) section 501(c)(4) and is the parent entity of healthpartners organizations referred to collectively as "healthpartners". Healthpartners includes an array of tax-exempt and taxable organizations. Healthpartners provides a full range of health care delivery and health plan services including insurance, patient care, administration and health and well-being programs. Healthpartners health plans serve more than 1.8 million medical and dental members nationwide. Healthpartners medical care system includes more than 2,000 employed physicians and dentists, eight owned hospitals with over 1,000 acute care beds, over 100 primary and specialty care medical facilities and dental facilities with practices in minnesota and western wisconsin serving more than 1.34 million patients. Healthpartners health plans contract with other primary and specialty medical facilities and dental facilities, physician groups, hospitals, and related healthcare providers to serve plan members. Healthpartners also provides medical education and training to medical professionals and conducts research and fundraising activities that support the health care delivery system. Healthpartners collaborates with other plans, care providers and other community and business organizations in the region and throughout the nation to increase access, create and share quality measures and initiatives, participate in development of public policy, and collaborate in improvements that support the triple aim. Among healthpartners' signature initiatives are total cost of care measurements (a nationally recognized metric, enabling measurement and incentives based on coordination and evidence-based practices), mental health (reducing stigma, and assuring access to high quality care in the most appropriate settings), children's health (improving child health by promoting early brain development, providing family centered care, and strengthening communities), equity, inclusion, and anti-racism (addressing health equity, eliminating health care disparities, increasing diversity and inclusion in our workplaces, building an anti-racist culture, and deepening our collective understanding of cultural humility) and sustainability (energy efficiency, waste reduction, and resource management). A complete listing of all organizations within healthpartners, and the relationship between them, can be found on schedule r within this 990 return. Detailed information about the community benefit”

“In the wider community, the foundation: -provided no-fee breast cancer screening, diagnostic services, and education at 74 events to 1,372 women in need across our community with the mobile mammo a-go-go community outreach program. Sixty interpreters helped translate for spanish, hmong, laotian, somali, cambodian, oromo and korean patients. -provided funding of over $688,960 for no-charge school-based medical care, prescription support, sliding fee dental care, early learner mental health services, early childhood screenings within the st. Louis park community, school coordination and insurance navigation services to 3,233 children at four school-based health resource center locations: brooklyn center, burnsville, richfield, and st. Louis park. -provided funding of $14,000 to st. Louis park district #283 to cover last minute loss of early childhood mental health services for students entering kindergarten -provided funding of $1,200 to enhance early childhood hearing screening in st. Louis park district #283 to cover underserved and new-to-country families with small children beginning school. -provided over $604,552 in funding to provide a no-fee school-based grief counseling program in 18 school districts, 125 school locations, for children experiencing the death of a family member or friend through the growing through grief program. Provided additional funding of $25,600 to the minneapolis public schools cares curriculum. Responded to 27 death-related school crisis events. Services supported more than 950 students each week and more than 31,820 students, school staff and family members for a total of over 11,386 hours of student support. -provided funding of $193,798 for now! No obstacles to well-being school-based tele-mental health services and interpreter services. Providing 586 no-cost school-based tele-mental health sessions for 57 youth in three school districts: burnsville, richfield, and st. Louis park. -provided $642 to support park nicollet behavioral health clinicians and select partnering school counselors attending the 9th annual african mental health summit to enhance individual and organizational knowledge of special mental health needs and concerns in the african immigrant community. -provided $760 in funding for park nicollet behavioral health and medical staff to attend a somali mental health cultural responsiveness workshop in 2023, the park nicollet foundation, in collaboration with pnhs, methodist hospital, and healthpartners, continued to implement activities identified in the 2023 community health needs assessment implementation plan (chna). The plan outlines activities designed to impact our community in the areas of access to care, access to health, mental health and well-being, nutrition and physical activity, and substance abuse, as top priorities. The results of that chna and implementation plan continue to help park nicollet health services, methodist hospital and park nicollet foundation remain focused on the community's greatest health needs and achieve the greatest impact from the philanthropic dollars it stewards.”

“The foundation derives a portion of its grant revenue from special events fundraisers, therefore, all of the expenses associated with these special event fundraisers are reported on form 990, part viii. The foundation has no employees, thus any other fundraising activity is performed by employees of park nicollet methodist hospital, a related tax exempt organization. These expenses are recorded on the related entity's form 990, part ix.”