The Hospice Foundation

“Cathy pace, vice chair, and kim pace, board member, are sisters-in-law. They are married to brothers.”

“The foundation's board of directors has power and authority to elect half of the directors. The remaining directors are appointed by the board of directors of the carecenter. Each director is entitled to one vote. The chief executive officer of hospice & palliative carecenter and the president of the hospice foundation serve as ex-officio members without voting rights.”

“Form 990 review process: when the form is received from the preparing accounting firm, the entire form is reviewed by the finance deparment of hospice & palliative carecenter. This review consists of checks for reasonableness and differences in information reported to preparing accounting firm and final document. A final copy is forwarded to the hospice foundation board of directors after filing.”

“All members of the board of directors are required to annually sign a statement disclosing whether they are engaged in any activities that could be a conflict of interest. If there are matters disclosed, board members would recuse themselves from voting on any board actions related to those matters.”

“The hospice foundation does not make its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, or its financial statements available to the general public. Documents open to public inspection are available upon request for the same period of disclosure as set forth in section 6104(d).”

“The organization, in a full transparency posture to reporting, is reporting all benefits in full in column f, part vii and is not applying the $10,000 per item exception for certain benefits.”

“Organization: the chair and vice chair of hospice & palliative carecenter jointly serve on the foundation's and hospice & palliative carecenter's boards of directors. Both directors devote approximately one hour per week to each of the organizations. The chair of the hospice foundation jointly serves on the foundation's and hospice & palliative carecenter's board of directors. He devotes approximately one hour per week to each of the organizations.”

“The finance committee's process of evaluation has not changed since prior year.”