America'S Essential Hospitals

“America's essential hospitals represents more than 275 hospitals and health systems and is the strategic link between member hospitals and policymakers. Full members are public and non-profit acute care hospitals and multi-hospital systems with common missions and purposes, including patient populations or other significant characteristics and interests consistent with the purposes of the association.”

“Full members are public and non-profit acute care hospitals and multi-hospital systems with common missions and purposes, including patient populations or other significant characteristics and interests consistent with the purposes of the association, and are eligible to apply for membership in the association, subject to the board of directors' approval. Each full member has at least one vote on each matter brought before the membership, with the specific number of votes provided to each full member to be determined by the board of directors. The board of directors may approve nonvoting associate members from among health systems not considered for full membership, which share common characteristics with the association's full members. It may also approve nonvoting affiliate members from among individuals or organizations other than health systems wishing to support and participate in association activties. Nonvoting members do not have the right to vote on any matter.”

“America's essential hospital's form 990 was prepared by the outside accountants and reviewed by its senior management and audit & compliance committee. It was then sent to the full board prior to being filed with the irs.”

“America's essential hospitals has a conflict of interest policy, the purpose of which is to protect the association's interests when its senior staff (defined as president & ceo, cfo, vice presidents and directors) or board considers a transaction or arrangement that might benefit the private interest of a member of the board or a senior executive of america's essential hospitals. It applies to matters brought for approval by the board, or any of their committees, regarding which a board member or a senior executive has a financial interest. At the time an actual or possible conflict of interest arises or the interested person becomes aware of it, the board member must disclose the existence of the financial interest to the chair, chief financial officer (cfo), or the board. The board determines whether the opportunity for benefit is material under the circumstances and, thus, whether a conflict of interest exists with respect to the transaction in question. The board may void any such contract or transaction that it determines is a conflict of interest. Annually, each senior staff member must complete a written conflict of interest questionnaire disclosing any new relationships, circumstances or transactions that might create a potential conflict of interest. The questionnaires are reviewed by the cfo to determine if there are any potential conflicts that should be reviewed by the president & ceo. Any conflicts of interest are resolved as appropriate.”

“America's essential hospitals' president and ceo's compensation is reviewed annually by an outside consultant with expertise in the non-profit and health field. The consultant reviewed the compensation of other comparable positions in peer organizations including other national and state associations and updated this data for market changes in 2015. The study was reviewed by the compensation committee. For other key employees, the association periodically engages an outside consultant to conduct compensation studies in the peer market. The last full compensation review took place in 2013 and the data has been updated for 2015.”

“America's essential hospital's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available upon request.”