Sparrow Carson Hospital

“Sparrow health system is the sole member of sparrow carson hospital and has 100% ownership.”

“Sparrow health system has the right to elect members of the sparrow carson hospital board. The president of the medical staff, which is a member of the governing body, is elected by the medical staff of sparrow carson hospital.”

“Sparrow health system has the right to elect, replace, and remove directors of sparrow carson hospital board. Sparrow health system also has the authority to approve decisions of the sparrow carson hospital board when it is deemed necessary.”

“Copies of the 2020 form 990 are reviewed by management. Once management completed its review of form 990 copies were provided at the fall 2021 board meeting for all board members to review and comment on.”

“1) corporate compliance sends out the conflict of interest policy and questionnaires to all voting board members and the executive team annually. 2) all disclosures are received and reviewed by corporate compliance. 3) all disclosures are given a resolution code and presented to the ceo and governance committee of the board. 4) all board/committee level disclosures are provided to the respective board chair and executive liaison to ensure issues can be addressed on a transactional level (i.e. If a vote is required on a transaction involving an interested person).”

“The process for determining compensation for the ceo involved the following: utilizing the compensation committee, using independent consultants, reviewing other similar organizations' 990s, using compensation surveys, and final approval by the shs board of directors, as well as finalizing the salary package with a written employment contract.”

“The process for determining compensation for officers or key employees of the organization involved the following: utilizing the compensation committee, using independent consultants, reviewing other similar organizations' 990s, using compensation surveys, and final approval by the shs board of directors, as well as finalizing the salary package with a written employment contract.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and audited financial statements are available upon request.”

“Sparrow health system is an integrated non-profit organization and is the parent corporation of sparrow carson hospital and other related entities. Paula reichle is the vice president & chief financial officer of sparrow health system and thereby has ultimate responsibility for managing the financial operations of the system and therefore is the signature officer of the health system.”

“All lines left blank are not applicable to the organization. Part iv, question 4 - the organization has memberships in various trade associations for lobbying activities on behalf of the applicable trade association industries, thus indirectly benefiting the organization. The percentage of dues allocated to this industry-wide lobbying activity is minor and is not considered by the organization as lobbying activities required for disclosure on schedule c, part ii.”

“Sparrow carson hospital (scch) is a 61-bed, acute care hospital located in central michigan. It is the oldest osteopathic hospital in michigan, founded in 1936 by emmett binkert, do. Since this time, scch has been committed to serving the residents in a four-county area. Scch currently operates a short-term, acute-care facility and several satellite clinics offering inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, physician services, and home health care, primarily to patients in the carson city, michigan area, including gratiot, montcalm, clinton, and ionia counties. Scch provides care to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than established rates. Because scch does not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care, they are not reported as revenue under arrangements with various governmental insurance programs. Scch provides significant care to the local indigent population for which reimbursement for services rendered is generally, less than the cost of providing such services as part of its obligation to the local community. Scch also provides services to indigent patients under the medicaid program at payment amounts less than the cost of the services provided. For the year ended december 31, 2020, scch provided over 2 million in uncompensated care. The estimated annual total local economic impact is 30,000,000.”

“Other program services include the operation of the physical rehabilitation center and the following sparrow medical group (smg) facilities including: smg carson general surgery,smg carson orthopedics, smg carson obgyn, smg ashley, smg carson, smg fowler, smg greenville, smg ithaca, smg pediatrics carson city, and smg stanton.”