Ascension Living Borgess Place

“In determining compensation of the organization's top management official the process performed by ascension health senior care, a related organization, included a review and approval by independent persons, comparability data, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. In the review of the compensation, the top management official was compared to individuals at other organizations in the area who hold the same title. During the review and approval of the compensation, documentation of the decision was recorded in the board minutes. Individuals were not present when their compensation was decided. In determining compensation of other officers of the organization, the process performed by ascension health senior care, a related organization, included a review and approval by independent persons, comparability data, and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision. In the review of the compensation, the other officers of the organization were compared to individuals at other organizations in the area who hold the same title. During the review and approval of the compensation, documentation of the decision was recorded in the board minutes. Individuals were not present when their compensation was decided.”

“Many of the persons listed in Part VII, Section A have a "business relationship" with each other by virtue of employment by Ascension Senior Living related entities - Business relationship”

“Borgess Nursing Home has a single corporate member, Ascension Health Senior Care, d.b.a. ASCENSION SENIOR LIVING .”

“Borgess Nursing Home has a single corporate member, Ascension Health Senior Care, who has the authority to appoint and remove Directors and Executive Officers of Borgess Nursing Home.”

“Ascension Health Senior Care, d.b.a. Ascension Senior Living, who is the single corporate member of Via Christi Villages, Inc., has designed a system authority matrix which assigns authority for key decisions that are necessary in the operation of the system. Specific areas that are identified in the authority matrix are: new organizations & major transactions; governing documents; appointments/removals' evaluation debt limits; strategic & financial plans; assets; system policies & procedures. These areas are subject to certain levels of approval by Ascension per the system authority matrix.”

“Management, including certain officers works diligently to complete the Form 990 and attached schedules in a thorough manner. Prior to filing the return, all Board Members are provided the Form 990 and management team members are available to answer any Board Members questions.”

“The organization's Conflict of Interest Policy is monitored as part of the system-wide procedures and not at the organizational level. The system-wide procedures are as follows: 1. At time of appointment and annually thereafter, all interested persons, including board and committee members, complete a disclosure statement which addresses actual or potential conflicts of interest. 2. The disclosure statement is done electronically and the return of the completed statement is a condition of continued appointment, employment, or participation with the organization. 3. All actual conflicts are investigated, and resolved by the chief governance officer and the corporate responsibility officer, with the results shared with the chief executive of the organization. 4. Periodic reviews are conducted by governance, compliance, and internal audit to ensure the organization is operating consistent with the policy and enforcing the policy's terms.”

“The organization will provide any documents open to public inspection upon request.”

“Community benefit report june 30 2015 this report illustrates the significant degree to which borgess nursing home d/b/a borgess gardens contributes to the positive health status of the communities it serves, as a member of ascension health the nation's largest catholic healthcare system, borgess gardens continues to build and strengthen sustainable collaborative efforts that benefit the health of individuals, families, and society as a whole. The goal of borgess gardens is to perpetuate the healing mission of the church, borgess gardens furthers this goal through delivery of nursing care to the elderly, our concern for all human life and dignity of each person leads the organization to provide skilled nursing and rehabilitation services to all people in the community without regard to the patient's race, creed, national origin, economic status or ability to pay, borgess gardens has engaged in the following activities to ensure that our mission is accomplished: unreimbursed services provided to the elderly and the poor: borgess gardens provides nursing home placement to patients, nursing home patients are primarily elderly persons, with no other family, services are reimbursed by medicare and medicaid with a small portion by private pay, of the 101 beds available, 18 are occupied by the sisters of st, joseph, who have utilized borgess gardens to care for their elderly, borgess gardens' residents are typically low income, medicaid eligible people. In fact, 40% of the gardens' patient days are reimbursed by the medicaid program, with a total loss of $1,718,000. Patient services: borgess gardens provides gardens care to 101 residents at a 98% occupancy level, borgess gardens received its eden facility designation in 2003, one of the first in kalamazoo county, medical education: borgess gardens acts as a clinical setting for western michigan university nursing students. Summary: borgess gardens furthers its charitable purposes by providing nursing care to residents, under the eden philosophy of care.”

“Compensation of independent contractors is paid by and reported on the form 1096, annual summary and transmittal of u.s. Information returns, of ascension health ein 31-1662309. Expenses are allocated to and reimbursed by the filing organization to ascension health. As such, the organization has not reported independent contractors paid on form 990, part vii, section b.”

“Borgess Nursing Home is exempt as a hospital under Internal Revenue Code 170(b)(1)(A)(iii), however it is not a hospital as defined by Form 990, Schedule H Instructions.”