Saint Lukes Health System Home Care and Hospice

“Annually, the saint luke's health system board of directors' compensation committee reviews, discusses, sets and approves compensation for the organization's top management executive and cfo. Independent, external directors serve on the compensation committee. An independent compensation consulting firm annually provides a written report and reasonableness opinion. The consultant reviews the system's executive compensation philosophy and analyzes market competitiveness (in total and by each compensation and benefit element) for the executives using appropriate comparability data. Compensation committee actions are contemporaneously documented. The process satisfies the rebuttable presumption procedure.”

“The majority of the organization's board members are executives of affiliated tax-exempt organizations. However, the filing organization is deemed to have a community board by virtue of its relationship with its sole member, saint luke's health system, inc. (slhs). Slhs is a 501(c)(3) organization governed by a board of directors, a majority of whom are external, independent persons.”

“The sole corporate member is saint luke's health system, a 501(c)(3) organization.”

“The governing body is elected by the sole corporate member”

“The sole member has specified reserve powers over major decisions such as amendments to articles and bylaws, debt, budgets, capital expenditures and strategic operating decisions. As part of an integrated health system, the sole member also provides various management and support functions to the organization.”

“The 990 is prepared jointly by accounting staff of the entity and saint luke's health system (system) tax staff. The return is reviewed by the entity's cfo or ceo before filing. A summary of key 990 information was presented to the audit committee of the system board of directors and the 990 draft was made available to the committee for review. The 990 was provided to the organization's board members before filing with the irs.”

“Saint luke's health system and its affiliates, including the filing organization, have comprehensive written conflict of interest policies applicable to all directors, officers, and employees. Any actual, possible or perceived conflict of interest is expected to be handled through full and timely disclosure of any such interest, together with absence of persuasion in any discussion and in any vote wherein the interest is involved. Disclosure is to be made when the interest arises, at any time the interest becomes a matter of governing board action, and then annually through completion of a conflict of interest questionnaire. The vice president of internal audit reviews completed questionnaires and further investigates possible conflicts of interest. A report is provided to the audit committee of the system board of directors and any identified conflict of interest is reported to the applicable entity.”

“The organization's articles of incorporation and amendments thereto are made available to the public through the mo and/or ks secretary of state. The organization is included within the consolidated financial statements of saint luke's health system inc that are available to the public through emma. The organization's other governing documents and conflicts of interest policy are not made available to the public.”

“Chris perryman, peter holt, angela locke, gina lawson, elmore patterson, paula littleton, and daphne bascom did not receive compensation for duties as a director or officer of the filing organization but received compensation from related organizations for services rendered to the related organizations. Denise is a former employee of a related organization. Lisa walters received compensation from the filing organizations for services provided to the filing and related organizations. Reportable compensation from related organizations for margaret donnelly is for services rendered to the filing and related organizations.”

“Saint luke's health system home care and hospice (hch) is part of saint luke's health system, an integrated health system. Hch vendors are paid through a centralized payment system with 1099s issued by the centralized service entity.”

“Change in beneficial interest in assets of st lukes foundation - -111790; pension liability transfer/sttlmt to saint luke's health system - 659993;”