Park Nicollet Group Return

“Park nicollet health services is the sole member of park nicollet methodist hospital, park nicollet clinic, park nicollet health care products and pnmc holdings. Healthpartners, inc. Is the sole member of park nicollet health services.”

“The board of directors of park nicollet methodist hospital, park nicollet clinic, pnmc holdings and park nicollet health care products are those individuals who are contemporaneously members of the board of directors of park nicollet health services.”

“All decisions, including dissolution of the organization, made by the governing body of park nicollet methodist hospital, park nicollet clinic, pnmc holdings and park nicollet health care products are subject to the approval of the board of directors of park nicollet health services.”

“Park nicollet group prepares the form 990 within the finance department with assistance from individuals in human resources, marketing, operations and legal. Upon completion of gathering the necessary information for the return, the form was reviewed by the park nicollet group's accounting firm. Drafts of the form were also reviewed by the director of finance, vice president of finance, chief financial officer, the legal department and the audit and compliance committee. After all reviews were complete; the form 990 was given to each member of the board of directors prior to filing the return.”

“The park nicollet board monitors potential conflicts of interest on the part of its board members, principal officers, members of committees with board delegated powers, and key employees ("covered persons") by maintaining a conflict of interest policy. Under the policy, covered persons annually are provided with a copy of the policy and asked to complete a questionnaire identifying any potential conflicts of interests. The legal department of healthpartners reviews the questionnaire responses and develops a report detailing any potentially material conflicts for the president and chair of the board. A verbal summary is also given to the full board or appropriate committee ending with a reminder to covered persons of the policy's mandate that each person is obligated to disclose any new potential conflicts as they may arise throughout the year. Board agendas and executive decisions are monitored in relation to this policy.”

“Park nicollet health service's (pnhs) president and its officers are employed by either group health plan, inc. (ghi), a related organization, or by pnhs. Ghi and pnhs have an annual process to review the market comparability of the total compensation of the pnhs's president and other officers. Every three years, the independent compensation committee of the ghi board of directors (the "committee"), retains an external compensation expert to conduct an extensive market comparability review for all officers of the organization. The review includes all components of total compensation: base salary, annual incentives, benefits and perquisites. The market survey results are presented to, reviewed by and approved by the appropriate committee. Based on this data, the compensation committee of ghi (the "committees") determine minimum and maximum total compensation ranges for each employed officer. In interim years, ghi's human resources staff, under the committees' direction, updates changes in the salary structure based on the same independent studies performed by the compensation consultant for the committee. For certain positions full independent reviews are performed to set salary ranges based on the competitive market data specific to those positions. The committee reviews and approves each year's compensation results. In all cases, committee members complete an annual conflict of interest survey to assure the compensation committee members' independence and this is updated at any meeting at which decisions are being made. Staff (other than the secretary to the board) is not in the room during deliberations or vote including executive sessions, and contemporaneous minutes are kept. The ceo of ghi conducts the annual performance review and determines the compensation of the pnhs president. The pnhs president or other officers delegated by the pnhs president (with authority to further delegate to executives with leadership roles of park nicollet officers) conducts annual performance reviews and determine the compensation of all pnhs-employed officers within the compensation ranges determined by the committee. Any exceptions in excess of the approved ranges need to be approved by the executive committee. Total compensation is appropriately documented on the form 990 and on the employee's w-2”

“Pn group's financial statements and 990 returns are made available to any persons who requests the information from pnhs. The group's articles of incorporation are available by anyone who request them or through the minnesota secretary of state's office. The forms 990 are available upon request or from the state of minnesota or at guidestar.org.”

“Corporate structure, purpose, governance the park nicollet group return (group) includes park nicollet methodist hospital (methodist), park nicollet clinic (pnc), park nicollet health care products (pnhcp), and pnmc holdings all of which are subsidiaries of park nicollet health service (pnhs), a minnesota nonprofit corporation recognized as exempt from federal income tax under internal revenue code ("irc") section 501(c)(3). Pnhs is the parent organization to an integrated care system that includes methodist, pnc, pnhcp, pnmc holdings, park nicollet foundation (pnf), park nicollet enterprises (pne), hutchinson health (hh), and tria orthopaedic center, llc (tria). Park nicollet health services accountable care organization, llc, was organized as an llc in 2018, for which pnc is the sole member. For the second year, becker's hospital review, a highly respected health care publication, is recognizing park nicollet as one of the accountable care organizations to know. This recognition is based on factors including quality and cost. There are about 650 private and public acos in the u.s. About 20 percent of medicare beneficiaries receive care from an aco. Park nicollet has participated in cms aco models since 2012. Since then, it has saved medicare more than $6 million dollars. Pnhs is a nonprofit, integrated care delivery system. It is staffed by nationally recognized hospital and clinic doctors, clinical professionals, nurses and other team members who help patients stay healthy and take care of them when they are sick. Pnhs is part of the healthpartners organization, "healthpartners." founded in 1957, healthpartners is an integrated health care organization, providing health care services and health plan financing and administration, and is the largest consumer-governed nonprofit health care organization in the country. Healthpartners' mission is to improve health and well-being in partnership with our members, patients and community. Healthpartners seeks to transform health care through a relentless focus on the triple aim - providing exceptional experience for the individual, improving the health of the population, and maintaining affordability. Healthpartners, inc. (hpi) is a minnesota nonprofit corporation and licensed health maintenance organization (hmo) recognized as exempt from federal income tax under internal revenue code (irc) section 501(c)(4) and is the parent entity of healthpartners organizations referred to collectively as "healthpartners". Healthpartners includes an array of tax-exempt and taxable organizations. Healthpartners provides a full range of health care delivery and health plan services including insurance, patient care, administration and health and well-being programs. Healthpartners health plans serve more than 1.8 million medical and dental members nationwide. Healthpartners medical care system includes more than 1,800 employed physicians and dentists, eight owned hospitals with over 1,000 acute care beds, over 129 primary and specialty care medical facilities and dental facilities with practices in minnesota and western wisconsin serving more than 1.27 million patients. Healthpartners health plans contract with other primary and specialty medical facilities and dental facilities, physician groups, hospitals and related healthcare providers to serve plan members. Healthpartners also provides medical education and training to medical professionals and conducts research and fundraising activities that support the health care delivery system. Healthpartners collaborates with other plans, care providers and other community and business organizations in the region and throughout the nation to increase access, create and share quality measures and initiatives, participate in development of public policy, and collaborate in improvements that support the triple aim. Among healthpartners' signature initiatives continuing in 2020 are total cost of care measurements (a nationally recognized metric, endorsed b”

“Pnhcp provides durable medical equipment (dme)/supplies supporting ongoing patient care for methodist and pnc patients. Pnhcp is a recognized leader in providing patients with convenient access to provider recommended health related products. Pnhcp is viewed by park nicollet as an extension of the provider's care, by providing products used at home to help patients ensure success with self-managing any number of health issues. Park nicollet health care products' dme division is made up of 10 product lines and multiple sales channels, (seven store locations, e-commerce, and more than 300 point of care closets for the immediate disbursement of dme product to our patients). The division employs 140 staff located at 35 clinic and administrative sites. Product lines include durable medical equipment, medical supplies, including ostomy and wound care, skin care services and products, custom orthotics and prosthetics, sleep equipment and supplies. The patient care experience does not end at the hospital or clinic door. Patients have many self-care needs to manage both their acute and chronic health conditions, and pnhcp is expanding its capacity to better serve these growing needs. Continued expansion of dme to the healthpartners medical group added an additional point of care closets to 19 more healthpartners clinic locations. Expanded the game ready program to lakeview hospital in q4 2020. Continued to add/enhanced product lines to our existing retail locations launched an undergarment product line while actively partnering with surgical practitioners at the 401 phalen woodbury clinic. Added pharmacy otc items into the stores that were requested by pn departments when pharmacies closed. To achieve product-market fit, the breast pump upgrade program was developed and rolled out which mirrors the industry's variable product options, giving our customers the choice to choose the best products and upgrade package to meet their needs at a reasonable value. Developed new and easier way for patients to receive product from us. We established a mail-out process for foot orthotics to ease the concern of how our patients receive their products. Cpap mail-out orders rapidly increased from when covid-19 started. A devised workaround plan was implemented to process the increase of cpap mail-outs. We had a 70% increase in total number of products mailed out comparing july 2019 to july 2020. Developed a partnership with the neuroscience team by providing therapists with in-service training on how to measure compression for patients followed by ordering of the compression through the health and care stores. Expanded optical and contact lens services to lakeville to better serve our patients. Benefit to the community: pandemic response hospitals serve as a center of strength for a community, even in the best of times. During disasters and community health crises like the covid-19 pandemic, communities expect health care facilities to not only provide the additional care that's needed, but also continue the community support that individuals and social entities have come to rely on. In 2020, methodist hospital directly supported community needs that arose because of the pandemic in a number of ways, including: shared ventilators with other hospitals (ie. Regions hospital) and other supplies when one area experienced gaps or shortages strong system medical staff response during the pandemic with clinic doctors helping in the hospital initiated the patient oximetry program with an oximeter device in the emergency department used innovative care model approaches such as the remote vent monitoring model, proning teams, placing iv pumps outside the room, n95 sterilization programall of these efforts were to try to conserve ppe as much as possible so we could keep our staff safe and care for more patients. Implemented virtual visit capabilities for hospital follow up visits offered personal protective equipment (ppe) to patients and visitors entering faci”

“Community health services: patient education - park nicollet's patient education department provides educational tools to support patients in preventing and managing illness and improving health. We provide programs, classes, videos, web content and decision support tools to help patients and the broader community take an active role in their health. These resources help patients prevent and manage common health problems, live well with chronic conditions, prepare for procedures and improve overall health and well-being. Our park nicollet health library provides resources and services for patients, family and the community. This includes literature searches and document delivery, as well as access to print, online and internet resources. Park nicollet participated in many activities in 2020 to help bring awareness and education to the community. Heart health awareness month coordinate efforts across our organization to increase heart health awareness in the communities we serve social media (paid) blogs internal communication billboards stroke awareness month blogs billboards print ads in valley social media (organic) march of dimes minnesota due to covid, the march for babies event became virtual. As an alternative for our sponsorship, we utilized the march of dimes minnesota facebook platform to support messaging of health tips and education on a wide variety of childhood topics. Reached almost 6000 new parents and created awareness for programs such as powerup and little moments count mental health awareness month - as an organization, we are working to reduce mental illness stigma. Mental illnesses will affect one in five people, but many people won't seek treatment for years because they feel shame. May is mental health awareness month and many people and organizations use this time to explore the topic. Internal communications social media posts on mental health resources covid-19 resource list employee storytelling make it ok social campaign on well-being tips and reducing stigma covid-19 resources recruiting and training of ambassadors via digital platform continued ambassador partnerships across mn, nd, sd, iowa and wi generated over 8200 visits to website colon cancer awareness month coordinated efforts across our organization to increase colon cancer awareness in the communities we serve. Park nicollet had a billboard clinic monitors - org-wide blog - org-wide (https://www.healthpartners.com/blog/what-you-need-to-know-about-colon-c ancer-screenings/) breast health awareness month coordinate efforts across our organization to increase breast health awareness in the communities we serve. Park nicollet foundation hosts bepink / country for a cause virtual events hosted by park nicollet foundation to raise funds for jane brattain breast center's mammo-a-go-go program opioid awareness month - to be a leader in education and awareness of opioids for our organization and the communities we serve, we repeated our 2019 campaign entitled cut short. We want to raise awareness by identifying common opioids and risks of addiction and educate on safe disposal of opioids. Social media, videos, channel 45 broadcast psas internal communications little moments count campaign little moments count is a movement across two states with many community partners who all strongly support the message to encourage early interaction with babies and children. We're turning the spotlight on the importance of talking, playing, reading, and singing to foster early brain development. We're bringing our passions for children's health and our community together, in our new little moments count campaign. Internal communication efforts launched covid-19 resources page for parents and partners launched racial and social resources page for parents and partners health fairs and community outreach - park nicollet care teams, departments and clinics provided fairs and outreach throughout the year in a number of different educational and health settings. Comm”

“Undergraduate nursing students came to methodist hospital in groups or as single students for clinical exposure to the health care team. Subsidized health services youth served - four school-based health centers, providing free medical visits within the school and community to children from birth to graduation who may have barriers to accessing health care. Services included treatment of minor, acute illnesses; physicals; immunizations; mental health therapy; dental care; and vision checks. Research research at park nicollet is coordinated and sponsored by healthpartners institute and embedded in departments and strategies across park nicollet to support quality initiatives and the patient experience. Research encompasses investigator-initiated studies, clinical trials, practice-based research, outcomes and quality improvement projects, data analytics, statistics, survey development and focus groups. Organization awards and achievements at methodist hospital our team of board-certified doctors, specialists and hospital staff work hard to achieve the highest level of care for our patients. We are grateful to receive awards and recognition from many organizations that show our dedication to our patients and community. Methodist is getting national recognition for our high quality care. U.s. News & world report named methodist a 2020-21 best regional hospital. We were also recognized as high performing in six procedures and conditions. The magazine's rankings are based on factors like quality of nursing, discharge rates and other care-related categories. We are proud to be named one of the top 25 environmental excellence award by practice greenhealth, their highest honor for hospitals. This award recognizes hospitals for excellence and dedication to sustainability in health care. Practice greenhealth is the nation's leading health care sustainability community, empowering its members to improve their environmental stewardship. Methodist is a part of the american heart association's (aha) get with the guidelines program, which makes it easier for our teams to put proven knowledge and guidelines to work on a daily basis. We were recently recognized with the aha's get with the guidelines stroke gold plus achievement award. This means we reached an aggressive goal of treating patients with 85% or higher compliance to aha core standard levels of care for the past two years and demonstrated at least 75% compliance in seven out of 10 stroke quality measures. We were also awarded with the target: stroke honor roll, which recrecognizes impressive stroke treatment times. Handout clinic and department brochures giveaways - rocket writer pens, chap stick, gel packs and water bottles jack o lantern spectacular - sponsor a family fun event focused on staying active during the evening hours of october, while enjoying a wonderful outdoor exhibit of 5,000 jack-o-lanterns. Introduce powerup program to the metro area by encouraging families to enjoy fruit as an after dinner snack and to engage in powerup activities. 105,575 attendees distributed over 66 cases of clementines 43 volunteers on select weekends, two marketing staff and two mascots on all weekends and select evenings. Veggie giveaways - make good happen by supporting the communities we serve with a bag of fresh veggies while sharing the powerup message to "try for 5!" attendance of 2,070 at 7 hp and pn clinic locations powerup bike deployment - utilize the powerup bike to share healthpartners powerup message to children and their families to try for 5 fruits and vegetables every day. The bike offers snack options at community events and after races! Handed out 7,944 powerup snacks (apples, bananas, oranges, carrots and cheese sticks) at events in 2019 overall attendance for 19 events = 35,000+ veggie rx - from june 4 through july 27, kids having a well exam at healthpartners, park nicollet and stillwater medical group clinics received a $10 voucher redeemable for fresh fruits and vegetab”

“Net assets released from restrictions 10,000. Grants run through the foundation -6,863. Capital contribution 2,091,187.”