Benedictine Living Communities - Bismarck Inc DBA St Gabriels Comm

“The corporation contracts with benedictine health system, a related organization, for management services. Benedictine health system employed the administrator/ceo of the corporation.”

“Benedictine health system, a minnesota nonprofit corporation, is the sole member of the corporation.”

“Each director of the corporation is appointed by benedictine health system.”

“Benedictine health system has certain reserved powers relating to the activities of the corporation as set out in the corporation's by-laws. In addition, in keeping with the corporation's mission "to assist and coordinate activities of facilities for health care, education, and care for the aged and social services in accordance with the charitable works tradition of the roman catholic church", all activities of the corporation are required to be carried out in accordance with the charisms of the benedictine sisters benevolent association ("bsba"), a civil law corporation for the sisters of st. Benedict of st. Scholastica monastery located in duluth, minnesota.”

“The form 990 is prepared by an independent accounting firm and reviewed by management. Once a draft is available, an electronic copy of the form 990 was distributed to the board prior to filing.”

“On an annual basis, interested persons are required to disclose any relationships that constitute or might lead to a conflict of interest by completing the conflict of interest and gift disclosure statement. The bhs compliance department will distribute the statements and collect and maintain the completed statements. The bhs compliance manager will review the statements and provide a summary of the identified conflicts of interest to the bhs chief compliance officer, who will alert the bhs ceo and the chair of the bhs board of directors to any items of concern. An "interested person" is any person in a position to exercise substantial influence over the system, including but not limited to a board member, board committee member, or officer or director of bhs or a facility (such as facility ceo/administrators and bhs senior leaders and directors). For interested persons who are employees (other than the bhs ceo), following disclosure of the actual or potential conflict of interest and all material facts,the interested person's supervisor will determine whether a conflict of interest exists. For the bhs ceo and board and committee members, following disclosure of the actual or potential conflict of interest and all material facts, the interested person will leave the board or committee meeting while the remaining members of the board or committee determine if a conflict of interest exists. The interested person may participate in deliberation regarding the transaction if the applicable supervisor, board, or committee determines a conflict of interest does not exist. An interested person who has been determined to have a conflict of interest may not participate in the deliberation or decision regarding the transaction or arrangement involving the conflict of interest and may not be present during such deliberation or decision making. The interested person may be allowed to make a presentation to the supervisor, board, or committee considering the transaction or arrangement as to which the conflict of interests refers prior to the deliberation and decision.”

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“Benedictine health system's (ein: 41-1531892) ceo and cfo, jerry carley and kevin rymanowski, share their time between the reporting organization and related organizations. See schedule r for information on related organizations.”

“Changes in temporarily restricted net assets -38,231. Changes in permanently restricted net assets 5,000.”

“The benedictine health system audit/ finance committee oversees the selection of the independent auditor and oversees the annual consolidated audit of benedictine health system and affiliates which includes the organization.”