Meadville Medical Center Foundation

“Compensation determination: the compensation committee of the board of directors of meadville medical center (mmc), which is comprised of independent board members determined to be free of any conflict of interest, is charged with determining executive compensation and establishing performance criteria according to an approved compensation philosophy. The committee works with an independent executive compensation consulting and advisory firm, mercer, that provides market survey data concerning compensation and benefit levels for functionally comparable healthcare executives in similar hospitals across the region and the nation based on several factors including size, geography, hospital type and complexity. The committee reviews and approves the compensation of the senior executives and ensures that all forms of executive compensation are reasonable, appropriate and consistent with its compensation philosophy. The committee contemporaneously documents its decisions in meeting minutes and reports its decisions to the full board of directors. The most recent compensation review as completed in june 2024. Meadville medical center (mmc) also has a physician compensation committee that reviews physician's compensation when the contract comes due. The committee reviews the compensation in comparison with mgma data.”

“RENATO SUNTAY IS COMPENSATED BY RELATED ORGANIZATION MEADVILLE MEDICAL CENTER. - Business relationship, HUMBERTO DORTA IS COMPENSATED BY RELATED ORGANIZATION MEADVILLE PHYSICIANS SERVICES. - Business relationship”

“The organization's parent organization, meadville medical center, provides management duties for the foundation, including the filing of all payroll-related forms. The foundation has a separate ceo and a separate board of directors from meadville medical center.”

“The organization's parent organization, meadville medical center, is the organization's sole member. Meadville medical center has the power to take the following actions from time to time with respect to the foundation: (a) nominate and elect all directors and officers of the corporation and remove at any time, with or without cause, any and/or all such directors and officers; (b) approve or disapprove any change in the number of directors; (c) approve or disapprove in whole or in part the corporation's budget and amendments thereto; (d) approve or disapprove projects or expenditures which are not in the budget or which are variances thereto including the authority to establish a dollar threshold below which the corporation will not need to obtain approval from mmc; (e) approve or disapprove all long range plans; (f) approve or disapprove all affiliations, mergers and other transactions not in the ordinary course of business; (g) approve or disapprove all amendments to the corporation's articles of incorporation and bylaws; (h) direct the corporation to make changes in its articles of incorporation or bylaws and in the absence of such action by the corporation, to directly amend its articles of incorporation and/or bylaws on its own motion; (i) approve or disapprove all financings or indebtedness for which the obligation to repay exceeds (i) a term of twelve months or (ii) an aggregate dollar threshold set by the board of directors of mmc from time to time; and (j) exercise such other powers or perform such other tasks as are reserved to or required of mmc by virtue of any other provisions of these bylaws or mmc's bylaws or by board resolutions enacted by this corporation or mmc from time to time.”

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“The form 990 is prepared by an independent accounting firm based on the audited financial statements and information provided by the accounting department of meadville medical center. The 990 is initially internally reviewed in-depth by the cfo and controller of meadville medical center. After this review, the form 990 is emailed to each board member, providing opportunities for questions, comments, or changes before the final form 990 is filed.”

“The organization has an annual conflict of interest disclosure statement. Throughout the year, each affected person is also obligated to file a supplementary disclosure statement if there is a change in circumstances which could create conflict. Determination of actual conflict will be conducted by the board of directors. If there is a conflict, the affected board member will recuse themselves during discussion and voting on the subject.”

“Upon request, photocopies of governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available for pickup by such requesting person.”

“Board member compensation: no board members receive compensation for their duties as directors. Humberto dorta is compensated for his role as a physician at meadville physicians services. Ceo compensation: donald rhoten is the ceo of community health services and meadville medical center foundation. He also performs duties for meadville medical center as the vp of community engagement. His compensation is split between these three entities and reported on part vii, section a, columns (d) - (f) as being from the organization and from related organizations.”

“Meadville medical center (ein: 25-1512436), a related organization, files all informational returns on behalf of meadville medical center foundation. The number of 1099s filed for the foundation has been reported on line 1a. This amount is included in the form 1096 filed by mmc.”

“Meadville medical center also files all employment tax returns on behalf of the foundation and it's other related organizations. The foundation does not have any employees that work exclusively for the foundation. Employees of other related organizations spend part of their time performing duties for the foundation. The number of w-2's filed on behalf of the foundation on part v, line 2a has been reported as zero. The number of w-2's related to these shared employees has been reported on the form 990s of the related organizations that directly employee these individuals. Meadville medical center includes all of these employees on their form w-3 filing.”

“The amount of salaries, pensions, payroll taxes, and employee benefits reported on part ix, lines 5-10 have been allocated to the foundation based on the employees that work directly for the organization.”

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