Morris Hospital

“FORM 990, PART III - 2015 REPORT The mission of Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers is to improve the health of area residents. This is the focal point that steers strategy and decision making and gives meaning and focus to staff as they go about their daily work. As long as our actions and activities are focused on improving the health of area residents, we know that we are doing whats right for our community. We carry out our mission every day by serving the hundreds of patients who walk through our doors for inpatient care, outpatient testing, emergency care, surgery and rehabilitation services. There are so many other ways we carry out our mission daily beyond traditional hospital services, including our free patient transportation service, free exercise classes for seniors, financial assistance program, education and training for pre-hospital providers, student mentoring experiences, student career exploration, free health screenings and education programs. Theres also the behind-the-scenes support that we provide for community social service agencies, including preparing daily meals for clients of Mobile Meals, providing clean linens and meals for the local PADS, meals for St. Vincent Table, and monetary support for the Will-Grundy Medical Clinic and We Care of Grundy County. Delivering quality patient care remains the highest priority at Morris Hospital & Healthcare Centers, as event by a number of significant accomplishments in 2015 including launching a patient safety crew that makes rounds in clinical areas with a focus on improving processes along with a comprehensive unit-based safety program with a goal of improving patient safety and safety culture. For the first time, Morris Hospital was awarded Primary Stroke Certification from the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, and the Illinois Department of Public Health upgraded Morris Hospital from an Emergent Stroke ready Hospital to a Primary Stroke Center. Meanwhile, IDPH renewed Morris Hospitals Emergency Department Approved for Pediatrics status, and the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons again awarded the Morris Hospital cancer program a three-year accreditation with commendation. A tremendous milestone was achieved in 2015 when Morris Hospital successfully made the switch to the new ICD-10 coding system. Morris Hospitals commitment to quality is further evident in the $153,000 investment toward the purchase of 52 recliner chairs to assure a chair is available in every patient room. Additionally, a significant investment was made in upgrading the telemetry system throughout the hospital to assure safety monitoring of patients. Morris Hospital was recognized for its commitment to safety by receiving its 8th consecutive A grade for patient safety from Leapfrog Group. As a result of this accolade, Morris Hospital was listed in Crains magazine as one of Illinois 18 safest hospitals. Additionally, Morris Hospital was ranked 45th out of 202 hospitals in Illinois for readmission rates. Morris Hospital continued to expand services in 2015. Two additional obstetrician/gynecologists joined the Morris Hospital Obstetrics & Gynecology Specialists practice, bringing the total number of ob/gyns in the practice to six, serving patients in five different office locations. Practice affiliations were completed with an internal medicine physician and two neurologists, further expanding Morris Hospitals growing office locations. In addition, Occupational Therapy Services were expanded to the Morris Hospital Ridge Road Campus, and a new Gardner Healthcare Center was constructed, replacing the former office building. Ten new physicians joined the medical staff in 2015, including an ob/gyn, a psychiatrist, three orthopedic surgeons, an internal medicine physician, two pediatric cardiologists, an emergency physician, and an immediate care physician. Morris Hospital continues to be showered with accolades, and 2015 was no exception. The hospital was recogn”

“Form 990, part vi, section a, line 8a minutes and agenda of the full board of morris hospital are maintained. The full board meets every month. Meeting dates applicable to 2015 are as follows: 01/26/2015 02/23/2015 03/23/2015 04/27/2015 06/22/2015 07/27/2015 08/31/2015 09/28/2015 10/26/2015 11/23/2015 12/14/2015”

“Form 990, part vi, line 8b minutes and agenda of the following committees of morris hospital have been and are maintained. Finance committee 01/26/2015 02/23/2015 03/23/2015 04/21/2015 05/19/2015 06/16/2015 07/21/2015 08/18/2015 09/22/2015 10/26/2015 11/17/2015 12/14/2015 executive committee 02/24/2015 03/12/2015 03/31/2015 09/09/2015 10/06/2015 11/17/2015 long range planning committee 01/13/2015 02/24/2015 03/16/2015 04/28/2015 05/05/2015 06/18/2015 07/17/2015 08/04/2015 08/06/2015 08/25/2015 09/22/2015 09/29/2015 10/27/2015 11/24/2015 pi/quality committee 01/19/2015 02/16/2015 03/16/2015 04/13/2015 05/18/2015 06/15/2015 07/13/2015 08/17/2015 09/14/2015 10/19/2015 11/15/2015 12/14/2015 recruiting/retention committee 01/08/2015 04/02/2015 05/07/2015 06/04/2015 07/02/2015 08/05/2015 09/03/2015 10/01/2015 11/05/2015 12/03/2015 nominating committee 02/26/2015 11/10/2015”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 11b a draft of the 990, as prepared by bdo usa, llp, was reviewed by members of the finance committee along with the cfo and accounting manager of morris hospital. A joint special board meeting of the morris hospital, morris hospital foundation and morris hospital auxiliary boards was held to provide a formal presentation of the final 990's of each respective organization prior to the filing.”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 12b directors, officers, members of the board, key agents, and key employees are required to complete a statement which requires the following: (1) disclose for in the prior two years, any products or services that he/she may have provided personally to morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates other than in his/her capacity as a director, committee member, officer, or other senior management position. (2) disclose for in the prior two years, any direct or indirect ownership interest that he/she may have in any company with which morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates conducts business, including the purchase or sale of products and services (except ownership of less than 1% interest in a publicly traded company). (3) disclose for in the prior two years, whether he/she may have served as a board member, employee, consultant or in any other capacity to a business or company that provides products or services to morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates. 4) disclose for in the prior two years, whether he/she has been involved in any legal or administrative proceeding, real estate or other business transaction, including the purchase of goods or services, involving morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates either personally or through a company in which he/she has a direct or indirect ownership or for which he/she has served as a board member, employee, consultant or in any other capacity. (5) disclose for in the prior two years, whether he/she has served as a board member, employee, consultant or in any other capacity with respect to a business or company that provides servicces in competition with morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates. Competition meaning providing a product or service which is the same as (materially similiar to) a product or service provided by morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates same geographic area, or to patients in the same geograhpic area. (6) disclose for in the prior two years, whether he/she has had any employment, appointment or other relationship with a government entity having regulatory authority over a morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates. (7) disclose for in the prior two years, whether to the best of his/her knowledge, any member of his/her immediate family have personally, or company with which that individual had an ownership, employment, consulting or board relationship, provided goods or services to, or otherwise conducted a business relationship with morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates. (8) disclose for in the prior year, whether he/she has had any member of his/her immediate family employed by morris hospital and healthcare centers or any of its affiliates. (immediate family members would include spouse, ancestors, children, grandchildren, great-grand children, siblings (whether by whole or half-blood), and the spouses of children, grandchildren, great-grand children and siblings). (9) disclose for in the prior two years, whether he/she has been aware of any other events, transactions, arrangements or other situations that have occurred or that may occur in the future, including pending or contemplated transactions or arrangements, that could be perceived as a conflict or duality of interest or that believe should be examined by morris hopsital and healthcare center's board of directors in accordance with the terms and intent of the morris hospital and healthcare center's conflicts and dualities of interest policy.”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 12c periodic reviews are made that at a minimum include: (1) whether compensation arrangements and benefits are reasonable and are the result of arm's length bargaining (2) whether acquisitions of physician practices and other provider services result in inurement or impermissable private benefit (3) whether partnership and joint venture arrangements and arrangements with management service organizations and physician hospital organizations conform to written policies, are properly recorded, reflect reasonable payments for goods and services, further the corporation's charitable purposes and do not result in inurement or impermissible private benefit (4) whether agreements to provide healthcare and agreements with other health care providers, employees and third party payors further corporation's charitable purposes and do not result in inurement or impermissible private benefit”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 15a & 15b the hospital has a compensation committee which meets several times per year that with the assistance of internal sources (human resources) and external advisors: assesses and evaluates the appropriateness of the compensation and benefits of upper management which includes ceo, cfo and other top management officials which includes key employees.”

“Form 990, part vi, section c, line 19 the documents are made available upon request.”

“Form 990, part xi, line 9 change in fair market value of derivative instrument: $469,953”