Shore Health System Inc.

“Form 990, part iii, line 1 our mission is to create healthier communities together, and provide our vision to be the region's leader in patient centered health care. Our goal is to provide quality health care services that are comprehensive, accessible, and convenient and that address the needs of our patients, their families and our wider communities.”

“Form 990, part iii, line 4a shs is a 184 licensed bed community hospital providing a full range of inpatient and outpatient clinical services to the maryland mid-shore area; including general hospital, emergency, and specialized services as well as outpatient centers for primary care, diagnostics, treatment, education, and rehabilitation. Shs offers free education programs and services to promote health awareness in the community. During fy 2018, shs provided care for 10,306 inpatients resulting in 40,930 days of patient care, treated 69,333 patients in the er, and performed 9,727 surgeries in the or. Shs' ancillary service departments realized 429,884 outpatient encounters. Home health/hospice services were provided to 1,082 patients in 19,488 nursing visits. Shs' mission statement is "to excel in quality care and patient satisfaction". Its strategic principle is "exceptional care, every day", and its values statement is "every interaction with another is an opportunity to care". As a part of its mission, shs provides charity care to patients unable to pay, providing $2.4 million of charity care in fy 2018.”

“Form 990, part iv, line 24a pursuant to a master loan agreement dated december 1, 2017 (the "master loan agreement"), as amended, umms and several of its subsidiaries have issued debt through the maryland health and higher educational facilities authority (the "authority"). As security for the performance of the bond obligation under the master loan agreement, the authority maintains a security interest in the revenue of the obligors. The master loan agreement contains certain restrictive covenants. These covenants require that rates and charges be set at certain levels, limit incurrence of additional debt, require compliance with certain operating ratios and restrict the disposition of assets. The obligated group under the master loan agreement includes the corporation, roi, um midtown, um baltimore washington, shore health (um memorial and um dorchester), um chester river, um charles regional, um st. Joseph, um upper chesapeake, um harford memorial, um laurel, um price georges, bowie health center (bowie), and the umms foundation. Each member of the obligated group is jointly and severally liable for the repayment of the obligations under the master loan agreement of the corporation's $1,745,628,000 of outstanding authority bonds on june 30, 2018. All of the bonds were issued in the name of umms and are reported on schedule k of its form 990. Members or stockholders form 990, part vi, section a, line 6, line 7a and line 7b umms is the sole member of university of maryland shore regional health, inc. (umsrh). Umsrh is the sole member of shs. Umms and umsrh may elect one or more board members of the governing body and all decisions of the governing body must be approved by umms and umsrh.”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 11b umms engages the accounting firm grant thornton to prepare and review the irs form 990 for umms and its affiliates. Information needed to complete the return is gathered by accounting personnel in the finance shared services department under the supervision of the umms tax director and provided to grant thornton. Once a draft return is prepared, it undergoes multiple levels of review both internally by umms tax & finance personnel, and externally by grant thornton, including at the partner level. Following any necessary changes to the return, a final draft is reviewed by each affiliates vice president of finance and/or cfo. Prior to filing the irs form 990, the organization's board chairman, treasurer, audit committee chairman, executive committee chairman or other member of the board with similar authority will review the irs form 990. All board members are provided with a copy of the final irs form 990 before filing.”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, line 12c shs' officers, directors and medical staff members, as applicable, shall disclose conflicts of interest or potential conflicts of interest between their personal interests and the interests of shs, or any entity controlled by or owned in substantial part by shs. A questionnaire which discloses potential conflicts of interest is distributed annually to officers, directors and key employees. The general counsel of umms reviews the responses for umms and certain other affiliates. The ceo or cfo of each of the other entities in the umms system reviews the responses for those entities. The general counsel, in consultation with the audit committee, if necessary, would determine if a conflict of interest existed. With respect to the other entities in the umms system, the general counsel may be called for consult. If so, the general counsel may consult the audit committee, if necessary. Whenever a conflict or potential conflict of interest exists, the nature of the conflict or potential conflict of interest must be disclosed in writing to the organization's board, board committee, an officer of the organization or other appropriate executive. Such individual having a potential conflict of interest shall play no role on behalf of the organization, or any organization controlled or substantially owned, in any transaction in which a conflict exists. All invitations for bids, proposals or solicitations for offers include the following provision: any vendor, supplier or contractor must disclose any actual or potential transaction with any organization officer, director, employee or member of the medical staff, including family members within five days of the transaction. Failure to comply with this provision is a material breach of agreement. In addition, a board disclosure report is filed with the maryland health services cost review commission on an annual basis showing any business transactions between the board members and the organization.”

“Form 990, part vi, section b, lines 15a and 15b shs determines the executive compensation paid to its executives in the following manner prescribed in the irs regulations: executive compensation packages are determined by a committee of the board that is composed entirely of board members who have no conflict of interest. The committee acquires credible comparability market data concerning the compensation packages of similarly situated executives. The committee carefully reviews that data, the executive's performance and the proposed compensation packages during the decision making process. The committee memorializes its deliberations in detailed minutes reviewed and adopted at the next-following meeting. The committee seeks an opinion of counsel that it has met the requirements of the irs intermediate sanctions regulations. This process is used to determine the compensation packages for all management employees from the vice president level and up.”

“Form 990, part vi, section c, line 19 the organizations governing documents are made publicly available through the state of maryland via the secretary of states office. The conflict of interest policy is generally available on the organizations or affiliates website. Financial statements are made publicly available on a quarterly basis through filings on the electronic municipal market access ("emma") system.”

“Form 990, part vii, section a, column b umms is a multi-entity health care system that includes 13 acute care hospitals, 1 acute care hospital owned in a joint venture arrangement and various supporting entities. A number of individuals provide services to various entities within the system. In general, the officers and key employees of umms average in excess of 40 hours per week serving the different entities that comprise umms.”

“Form 990, part xi, line 9 equity transfer umms affiliates $ (17,043,367) capital contributions $ (1,895,029) mhf beneficial interest $ 2,879,269 na's released purchase ppe $ 745,719 dgh equity interest $ 317,051 --------------- total $ (14,996,357) ================”

“Description:shared services total fees:18814431”

“Description:physician services total fees:13152048”

“Description:contract services total fees:5047881”

“Description:temporary labor total fees:2954639”

“Description:other services total fees:3371431”