Swedish Edmonds

“Western health connect is the sole corporate member of swedish edmonds.”

“Swedish edmonds has a tiered governance in which the corporate members reserve the right to appoint directors to the swedish edmonds board.”

“The following powers are reserved to and exercised exclusively by the member: a) to amend or repeal the articles of incorporation or bylaws. B) to approve the acquisition of assets, the incurrence of indebtedness or the lease, sale, transfer, assignment or encumbering of assets. C) to approve the dissolution, liquidation, consolidation or merger with another corporation or entity. D) to approve the annual operating and capital budgets of the corporation on a consolidated region-wide basis and recommend approval of the corporation's budget. E) to appoint certified public accountants after receiving the recommendation of the board of directors, and to receive the annual audit report from such accountants.”

“The form 990 was prepared by the tax department based on information received from various departments of the organization and was reviewed by an officer of the organization. A copy of the form 990 was distributed to all voting members of the board. During the audit committee meeting, management presented and discussed certain disclosures and information included in the form 990. The audit committee chair then provided a summary at the full board meeting.”

“Board members, sponsors, senior leaders and key employees are required to disclose any real or potential conflict of interest in accordance with the psjh coi policy and in connection with that individual satisfying his or her fiduciary obligations to the organization. Disclosures are made annually and/or if at any time an actual, real or potential conflict of interest arises. Psjh chief legal officer and/or the psjh chief risk officer, review all disclosures. Where appropriate, the ceo and/or the board chair consider matters that involve senior leadership or a board member. Psjh chief legal officer and/or chief risk officer review matters where conflict is difficult or cannot be resolved and present recommendations to the appropriate board committee or the ceo, for discussion and resolution. When appropriate, the individual with the real/potential conflict that is being reviewed may participate in the discussion but is excused from the meeting when action is decided. Where appropriate, the chief risk officer or chief legal officer will provide plan to manage conflicts. Auditing and monitoring of this process is done periodically. All documentation of coi disclosures is retained per organization retention policy.”

“The organization's chief executive officer/president/executive director is paid by its related organization, providence st. Joseph health, and is disclosed as a person paid by a related organization. It is providence st. Joseph health's intention to make financial information accessible and transparent. Although the filing of form 990 provides insight into how providence st. Joseph health achieves its mission, delivers its programs and stewards its finances, deciphering the information directly from form 990 can be challenging. The following paragraphs provide further information about the process we use to determine compensation for top management, officers and key employees. Providence st. Joseph health has a single fiduciary board, with responsibility for financial oversight associated with fulfillment of the providence st. Joseph health mission, developing system policies, protecting the assets entrusted to the organization and overseeing the strategic and operational affairs of providence st. Joseph health's legal entities. Providence st. Joseph health also maintains a network of community entity boards with responsibility for quality of care oversight, community relations, advocacy and community needs assessments. Providence st. Joseph health has a consistent compensation philosophy for all of its officers, including our senior executives. Salaries for senior executives are reviewed by the providence st. Joseph health committee. The board retains an independent consultant each year to review salaries of those in the most significant leadership roles in the organization. Part of the consultant's role is to review an extensive array of compensation surveys of large, not-for-profit health care systems in the united states. Providence st. Joseph health is one of the larger health systems in the country, and as such, the board benchmarks executive compensation against other large, not-for-profit health systems whose revenue is similar to that of providence st. Joseph health. Additionally, providence st. Joseph health's labor market continues to spread across health care and into general industry. Because of this, providence st. Joseph health also takes into consideration general industry for-profit market data, where applicable. Base salaries for providence st. Joseph health executives are generally targeted to the median level of the market, as identified by the independent consultant and reviewed with the executive compensation committee. The president/ceo utilizes the market information provided by the consultant along with formal performance evaluations, to determine salary recommendations for other senior executives. This process includes a rigorous analysis of those recommendations with the executive compensation committee as a part of the review and approval process. Performance incentives allow executives to earn additional compensation if they achieve specific organizational goals for furthering providence st. Joseph health operating commitments and strategic objectives. The board of directors conducts a thorough review process to ensure performance incentives are aligned with appropriate market practices. The board's process for executive compensation fully complies with irs standards and mirrors best practices. The process to review compensation was last completed in march 2018.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon request. The psjh community benefit reports, financial reports, and philanthropy reports are also available on the psjh internet site. Audited financial statements are attached to form 990.”

“In 2017, we relocated our day surgery unit in order to reclaim some additional inpatient capacity for growth in our women's services program. This unit accomodates both postpartum patients and certain female post-surgical patients.”

“In 2017, we closed our eye center. We had seen declining volumes and were hearing from patients that this service was not being covered by insurance in a hospital setting so they were choosing to have the service performed elsewhere. We have plans to use the space occupied by this area for other minor procedures.”

“AGENCY/CONTRACT LABOR: Program service expenses 3,106,844. Management and general expenses 1,600,496. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 4,707,340. MEDICAL DIR & MED PHYSICIAN FEES: Program service expenses 3,398,889. Management and general expenses 1,750,943. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 5,149,832. REPAIRS & MAINTENANCE: Program service expenses 866,198. Management and general expenses 446,223. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 1,312,421. OTHER PATIENT SERVICES: Program service expenses 2,145,903. Management and general expenses 1,105,465. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 3,251,368. OTHER ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES: Program service expenses 1,591,238. Management and general expenses 819,728. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 2,410,966. GENERAL CONSULTING FEES: Program service expenses 408,063. Management and general expenses 210,215. Fundraising expenses 0. Total expenses 618,278.”

“The tax-exempt bond liabilities were transferred from swedish edmonds to its tax exempt parent, providence st. Joseph health, during the year ended 12/31/17. The tax-exempt bond liability in part x, line 20 has been reclassed as an intercompany liability for tax-exempt bonds in part x, line 25.”

“Iaf transfers -27,279,246. Iaf grant -17,057. Rounding 3.”