Loma Linda University Med Cntr-Murrieta

“Family relationships may exist among other officer's, director's, or key employees of other related organzations. The nature of the business relationship is employment.”

“Delegation is per the by-laws of the corporation. Delegation is administered thereof.”

“The hospital (llumc-m) is organized as a not-for-profit religious corporation. The sole corporate member of llumc-m pursuant to section 9310 of the california nonprofit religious corporation law is loma linda university health, a california non-profit religious corporation, acting by and through its board of trustees.”

“The hospital bylaws define its board of trustees to be the same individuals who are members of the loma linda university medical center board of trustees. Lluh, a california not-for-profit religious corporation, is the sole corporate member of the hospital.”

“Decisions of governing board approval the sole corporate member, lluh, must approve all changes to the articles of incorporation and bylaws.”

“Form 990 is reviewed by internal audit and management and is made available to the audit committee and the board for review and comment before filing.”

“General counsel annually obtains statements of disclosure from trustees, officers, administrators, key employees, and others who make or affect significant decisions and reviews the findings with appropriate boards and committees. The board of trustees makes the decisions regarding questions which have not been satisfactorily answered after administrative consideration.”

“Loma linda university health (lluh) employs an independent outside consulting firm to benchmark compensation for lluh employees, including the ceo and top management. The lluh executive compensation committee uses the results of the independent survey to establish pay scales for the next fiscal year. The executive compensation committee sets the total compensation below the industry mean and median amounts provided in the survey. The executive compensation committee is composed of trustees appointed by the lluh board who are independent of lluh management. The executive compensation committee is appointed by the lluh board of trustees to have direct responsibility for establishing compensation, policies, and benefits for the senior executives of lluh. The committee's process includes contemporaneous substantiation of deliberations and decisions. For key employees other than the officers as well as employees in leadership positions, llubmc management, through the human resource department, obtains the services of an independent consulting firm to conduct nationwide compensation surveys. Management uses the comparable benchmarks in the survey results to establish or review pay scales for the position. This survey, conducted by the independent consulting firm, is performed for the organization every two years. Internally, the human resource department conducts annual surveys using at least three survey results from independent firms to establish or review the reasonableness of compensation amounts. The process was last undertaken in december of 2023 for all officers of loma linda university medical center-murrietta, inc.”

“The irs form 990 is available on www.guidestar.org and may also be obtained by making a request to the cfo at 11234 anderson st., loma linda, ca 92354.”

“The hospital does not make its governing documents publicly available beyond required required filings of articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The hospital does make its conflict of interest policy available on the organization's internal website for employees and files monthly/quarterly summary financial reports with the state health-planning agency.”

“For employees of lluh or lluh affiliates (organization(s)) related to the filing organization who devote less than full-time to the filing organization (based upon the average number of hours per week shown in part vii, section a, column (b) of the return) the compensation amounts shown in columns (e) and (f) were provided in conjunction with their responsibilities and roles in other positions for organizations related to the filing organization. These individuals each devote approximately 50 hours per week serving in their respective positions within the organization.”

“The amounts reported on lines 1f & 1g are below the required reporting threshold established by the irs for reporting on schedule b and schedule m.”

“This return is being amended to correct compensation data reported on schedule j, part ii, columns (b) through (d), where applicable. The original filing contained inaccurate figures due to an incorrect upload of compensation data for specific individuals. This amended return replaces the prior data in its entirety with the accurate compensation figures. Process review controls have been updated internally to ensure ongoing compliance with irs reporting requirements.”

“Transfer from affiliates 11,046,123. Other”

“The financial statements of loma linda university medical center were audited by an independent firm as part of the fiscal year 2024 combined financial statement audit of loma linda university medical center and its affiliates (which encompasses loma linda university medical center, loma linda university children's hospital, loma linda university behavioral medical center, the loma linda university children's hospital foundation, highland springs imaging center, llc, and loma linda university medical center-murrieta).”

“Llumc has a finance and audit committees of the board of trustees that assume responsibility for oversight of the financial statement audit and selection of the independent firm.”