Memorial Health System

“Memorial health system board members richard levi and sergio pecori have a business relationship. Memorial health system board member nina harris and key employee mitchell johnson have a business relationship. Memorial health system board members todd wise and diane rutledge have a business relationship.”

“The corporation contains 102 individual members who elect the board of directors.”

“The individual members of the corporation have the power and authority to elect the corporation's board of directors, as well as the power and authority to remove member elected directors.”

“A final draft copy of the mhs form 990 and all attachments is provided to all of the memorial health system board of directors and a board committee prior to filing. All questions and comments arising from these reviews are addressed prior to submission of the return to the appropriate taxing authorities.”

“All officers, directors and key employees of the corporation are required to annually review the conflict of interest policy and complete a specific disclosure statement which is attached to the policy. Memorial health system monitors and enforces its conflict of interest policy by identifying any potential conflicts at the time each meeting agenda is prepared. Any officer or director who has a conflict is notified of such conflict, as well as their obligation to abstain from the discussion and vote on any conflicted issues(s). Such abstention(s), if required, are documented in the minutes of each meeting. Board members are also required to update their conflict of interest disclosure statements promptly in the event of any change in personal or business activities that would require such disclosure.”

“The memorial health system board of directors has appointed a leadership compensation committee made up of past and present independent members of the board of directors, and has delegated to it the responsibility of administering, overseeing and approving all forms of compensation and benefits provided to executive leadership, including the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer and other senior vice presidents, who are key employees. The board has adopted a leadership compensation philosophy statement describing the role and responsibilities of the committee. This philosophy expressly states the committee's intent, on behalf of the corporation, to take all the steps necessary to qualify for the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness under the federal income tax law intermediate sanctions rules. The committee analyzes every element of compensation (including current, incentive and deferred compensation) and benefits (including qualified and non-qualified benefits). The committee conducts its review and approval process at least annually, and approves compensation and benefits only to the extent that the committee has concluded that the compensation and benefits constitute no more than reasonable compensation for each executive. In connection with the most recent review and approval process, the committee received professional advice from an independent consultant and outside legal counsel. The committee consists entirely of past and present disinterest members of the board or disinterested committee members who under state corporate law may serve on such a committee. The committee works with its compensation consultant to prepare and review in advance comprehensive data showing the compensation provided by similarly situate organizations for functionally similar positions. The committee also prepares a timely and thorough written record of its procedural criteria necessary to qualify for the rebuttable presumption of reasonableness under the federal income tax law intermediate sanctions rules.”

“The governing documents of memorial health system, such as articles of incorporation and any amendments thereto, are available to the general public through the illinois secretary of state's office. These governing documents, as well as the bylaws, conflict of interest policy and financial statements, are available upon request from the corporation. These documents are available for the same period of time as set forth in irc section 6104(d).”

“Compensation reported for certain individuals are based on the employer who issued payment. Hours are reported to reflect average hours in their operational role.”

“Due to the enactment of irc section 512(a)(7) there is a discrepancy between form 990, part viii, column c and form 990-t, line 13. Form 990-t has a greater amount of unrelated business income due to the inclusion of disallowed qualified transportation fringe benefits on form 990-t, line 12.”

“More than 3,200 students are now being reached with catch messaging, supported by the hospital's leadership of the program. Almh's breastfeeding initiative continues to grow; breastfeeding initiation rates at almh increased from 64.1% in fy17 to 71.2% in fy18. Almh built a community walking trail on its campus that opened in 2017. Trail use increased from 4,452 laps in fy17 to 11,113 in fy18. The almh market is a local farmer's market whose average weekly attendance is 940 from may through early fall. The market offered 904 free health screenings and 21 weekly pop club activities, which provide education to children ages 5-12 about the food system and healthy eating. To address mental health, almh brought mental health clinicians with memorial behavioral health's mosaic program into the local junior high school to offer screenings and mental health services within the school setting. Also in fy2018, the four mhs hospitals each completed new community health needs assessments and identified priorities to address in fy2019-fy2021. These needs assessments were done collaboratively with local county health departments and included input from community organizations that work with medically underserved, low-income, and minority populations, community surveys and focus groups. Senior leadership at each hospital, at the health system, and the mhs board's community benefit committee helped oversee the chna process, and the chna priorities and implementation strategies were approved by each hospital's board. Priorities identified are: mmc/sangamon county: access to care, mental health, substance abuse and mother/infant health; passavant area hospital/morgan county: access to care, mental health; taylorville memorial hospital/christian county: mental health and substance abuse; and abraham lincoln memorial hospital/logan county: obesity, mental health, substance abuse and cancer. To continue to improve the organization's population health, chronic disease management and care coordination capabilities and infrastructure, a memorial ambulatory health strategic plan is in place to improve information sharing to better coordinate care across multiple sites of care. This plan lays out a road map for better coordinating the care provided by our mental health affiliate, home services, hospice, primary care physician offices, durable medical equipment company, expresscare clinics, memorial weight loss and wellness program and memorial care coordination services. The focus of the plan is to strengthen our data and workflows around the population health building blocks of physician leadership, wellness and prevention, clinical protocols, chronic disease management, population targeting, network management, utilization management, care map adherence, care management, outreach and patient engagement. Other key successes this year directly related to strong leadership include retention of the mhs bond rating from moody's investor services of a1 with a stable outlook as well as retaining standard & poor's rating of aa- with a stable outlook. Mhs employee engagement scores at the 94th percentile of the national comparison group and positive cahps satisfaction scores at all mhs hospitals, memorial physician services (mps) and memorial home services. The ongoing success of our mhs' great patient experience initiative resulted in 14 of our 24 patient satisfaction surveys across the health system scoring at or above the 75th percentile of their respective national peer groups. Senior leadership team also led a system-wide "strengthen our future" initiative to improve processes and reduce costs while improving quality for patients. Through this initiative, costs were reduced by $38.3 million in fy18.”

“One schedule k was completed at the parent (memorial health system) level only. Memorial health system is showing the entire liability on the balance sheet with an intercompany debt from related entities, as can be seen on schedule d.”

“Nonoperating reconciling items -4,712,388. Change in unrestricted net assets 9,073,211. Related partnership book/tax diff 135,264.”