Marycrest Heights

“The parent entity of marycrest heights, trinity continuing care services, has contracted with plante moran for the provision of interim cfo services. In calendar year 2014, trinity continuing care services paid $183,750 to plante moran for betsy rust's services as interim cfo of trinity continuing care services. Trinity continuing care services does not know how much betsy rust received as wages from plante moran in calendar 2014.”

“The sole member of marycrest heights is trinity continuing care services. See line 7 for additional information.”

“Trinity continuing care services is the sole member of marycrest heights. Trinity continuing care services has the right to appoint all persons to the board of trustees of marycrest heights.”

“As sole member, trinity continuing care services must approve certain decisions of the governing body, including the strategic plan, annual capital plan, and annual operating budget. Trinity continuing care services must also approve significant changes such as a merger, dissolution, sale of assets in excess of certain limits, and modifications to governing documents.”

“Marycrest heights' form 990 was reviewed by management. Management review took place before the form 990 was filed with the internal revenue service.”

“Marycrest heights has adopted trinity health's governance policy no. 1, which sets forth the organization's conflict of interest policy and processes. It applies to all "interested persons" of marycrest heights, which includes trustees, principal officers, key employees, and members of committees with board-delegated powers. Interested persons are expected to discharge their duties in a manner the person reasonably believes to be in the best interests of marycrest heights and to avoid situations involving a conflict of interest. On an annual basis, interested persons are required to complete a conflict of interest disclosure statement and to affirm their receipt of the conflict of interest policy, compliance with its requirements, and agree to notify the organization of changes impacting their annual disclosure in accordance with the policy. The annual disclosures are provided to internal legal counsel and the integrity and compliance officer, from which legal counsel prepares a report for the board chair and ceo. A summary of potential conflicts is reviewed with the board of trustees of marycrest heights (or a delegated committee of the board) on a yearly basis. Interested persons are required to make full disclosure to marycrest heights of any financial or business interests that might result in or have the appearance of a conflict of interest. The board of trustees of marycrest heights (or a delegated committee of the board) is responsible for the review of transactions to determine whether an actual conflict of interest exists. In the event of an actual conflict, the board (or a delegated committee of the board) will either avoid the conflict or appropriately scrutinize the transaction to ensure it is in the best interests of marycrest heights. Interested persons are required to recuse themselves from discussion and voting on matters involving a conflict of interest. The policy further addresses the proper documentation of the proceedings and potential disciplinary and corrective action for violations of the policy. The policy is available to the public upon request.”

“Questions 15a and 15b are answered "no" because the compensation for certain officers and key management officials of marycrest heights is established and paid by trinity health, a related organization. In establishing ceo and cfo compensation, trinity health follows a process and policy that is intended to mirror the irc section 4958 guidelines for obtaining a "rebuttable presumption of reasonableness" with regard to compensation and benefits. As part of that process, the compensation and benefits of the ceo and cfo of marycrest heights are reviewed at least annually by the trinity health board or the trinity health human resources and compensation committee (hrcc) of the board, authorized to act on behalf of the board with respect to certain compensation matters. As part of its review process, the hrcc retains an independent firm experienced in compensation and benefit matters for not-for-profit healthcare organizations to advise it in the determinations it makes on the reasonableness of proposed compensation and benefits arrangements.”

“Marycrest heights is a subsidiary organization in the trinity health system. Trinity health makes certain of its key documents available to the public on its website, www.trinity-health.org, in the "about us" section. In this section, the consolidated audited financial statements are publicly available. Marycrest height's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon request.”

“Marycrest heights's financial statements were included in the fy15 consolidated financial statements of trinity health, which were audited by an independent public accounting firm.”