Cobb Hospital Inc

“PROGRAM SERVICE ACCOMPLISHMENTS Wellstar health system is a vertically integrated health care delivery system which provides through affiliated business organizations a full spectrum of health services, including wellness programs, physician office visits, outpatient care, inpatient care, and post-acute services such as home health and long term nursing care. The system through its affiliated business organizations operates 11 hospitals (kennestone, cobb, paulding medical, douglas, windy hill, atlanta medical center downtown and south, north fulton, spalding, sylvan grove and west georgia), multiple physician offices, primary care centers, outpatient care facilities, a nursing home and other health related services including two inpatient hospice facilities. The system is supported financially by a fundraising organization, wellstar foundation, inc. The service area for the system encompasses parts of the northwestern, central and western sections of the state of georgia - the primary area being in bartow, cherokee, cobb, douglas, Paulding, fulton, butts, spalding and troup counties. Approximately more than 90% of inpatient discharges and outpatients served are from the aforementioned counties. The wellstar vision is to deliver world class healthcare. Our mission is to create and deliver high quality hospital, physician and other healthcare related services that improve the health and well-being of the individuals and communities we serve. History- In 1993, what was then known as the cobb health system, the kennestone regional health care system, and the douglas general hospital affiliated to form the northwest georgia health system. Paulding memorial medical center affiliated with northwest georgia health system in 1994. In 1994, the northwest georgia health system helped form the promina health system and changed its name to promina northwest health system. In 1998, promina northwest health system changed its name to wellstar health system. Wellstar disassociated from and became totally independent of promina in 1999. In 2016 WellStar acquired atlanta medical center, north fulton hospital, spalding hospital, sylvan grove hospital and west georgia medical center. Wellstar health system is a parent corporation which provides overall coordination including governing body to its 11 subordinate affiliates: - cobb hospital, inc.; - chs foundation, inc. (investment management); - douglas hospital inc.; - kennestone hospital, inc.; - paulding medical center, inc.; - wellstar foundation inc.; - wellStar atlanta medical center, inc.; - wellstar north fulton hospital, inc.; - wellstar spalding regional hospital, inc.; - wellstar sylvan grove hospital, inc.; - wellstar west georgia health services, inc . Services - Wellstar health system is able to offer a full range of healthcare services through its affiliates. The services offered include but are not limited to: - most major inpatient clinical services, - outpatient services, - diagnostic and therapeutic services, - ancillary and support services, - urgent care services, - home health services, - skilled nursing services and - hospice services. The system includes a residential facility on the kennestone hospital campus, called atherton place. Atherton place also houses an assisted living unit as an additional level of care. The 11 hospital locations are acute care facilities with inpatient, outpatient, and emergency services. Paulding medical center is home to a full care nursing home, paulding nursing center and west georgia medical center also home to two full care nursing homes. Cobb hospital is home to a home health agency and a residential hospice facility called tranquility for those patients in the end stages of life. Kennestone hospital also opened a residential hospice facility not far from its main campus. The system is complimented with approximately 100 physician practices and several urgent care centers. The system is thus able to provide a complete continuum of care fo”

“UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME COBB Hospital, INC. GENERATED NO UNRELATED BUSINESS INCOME ("UBI") FOR THE REPORTING YEAR. AS A RESULT THE FILED 990-T SHOWS NO ACTIVITY. IF SUBSEQUENT REVIEW OF THE BOOKS REVEALS ANY UNREPORTED UBI WE WILL FILE AN AMENDED RETURN FOR THE TAX PERIOD ENDED JUNE 30, 2016. FORM 990, PART IV, LINE 12B AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS COBB Hospital, Inc. is audited on an annual basis by an outside auditing firm, KPMG, and as part of that audit a consolidated financial statement is issued for all of WellStar Health System, Inc. and its CONTROLLED Affiliates. The independent auditors report includes the accounts of Wellstar and its controlled affiliates, WELLSTAR Kennestone Hospital, Inc., WELLSTAR Cobb Hospital, Inc., WELLSTAR Douglas Hospital, Inc., WELLSTAR Paulding Medical Center, Inc., WELLSTAR ATLANTA MEDICAL CENTER, INC., WELLSTAR NORTH FULTON HOSPITAL, INC., WELLSTAR SPALDING REGIONAL HOSPITAL, INC., WELLSTAR SYLVAN GROVE HOSPITAL, INC., WELLSTAR WEST GEORGIA HEALTH SERVICES, INC., WELLSTAR WEST GEORGIA MEDICAL CENTER, INC., Wellstar Foundation, Inc., WELLSTAR WEST GEORGIA FOUNDATION, INC., CHS Foundation, Inc., Community Assurance Company, Ltd., various Wellstar owned physician practices, a hospice facility, a nursing facility, home health business, and entities for infusion therapy and durable medical equipment. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in combination. The Board of Trustees of Wellstar HEALTH SYSTEM, INC. has the authority to approve appointments of the members of the board of trustees of all affiliate corporations. FORM 990, PART IV, LINE 24A TAX EXEMPT BOND REPORTING For purposes of the Form 990 reporting, WellStar Health System, Inc. (EIN 58-1649541) will list all tax-exempt bonds issued since January 1, 2003 on Schedule K as it typically allocates the proceeds of the bonds to members of the Obligated Group (including the hospitals and physician group). COBB Hospital, Inc. will report this tax exempt bond liability on FORM 990, Part X, Line 25 Other Liabilities DUE TO WHS, INC. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION A, LINE 7B POWERS OF THE BOARD As per the Articles of Incorporation, the sole member of the organization is Wellstar Health System, Inc., a GEORGIA nonprofit corporation. As sole member, Wellstar Health System, Inc. holds certain powers of election and approval in connection with the governing body of the organization. These powers are presented in detail in the governing documents which the company makes available to the public upon request. FORM 990, PART B, SECTION B, LINE 11B BOARD REVIEW OF FORM 990 Internal staff prepareS the organization's Form 990. Before filing the return with the Internal Revenue Service an external accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, reviews and sign-offs on the completed return of each organization. The current year Form 990 is then reviewed by the Finance Committee along with a question and answer session. A motion is then made by the Finance committee to approve the returns and present to the full board copies of the forms in an electronic (pdf. format) version as well as a hard copy. The organization's CFO or designee subsequently signs the return for either manual or electronic filing by the appropriate due date. FORM 990, PART VI, SECTION B, LINE 12C CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY Our conflict of interest policy requires all covered persons to annually review the policy and then complete, sign and return the Conflicts of Interest Survey and Attestation to the Compliance Office. The Policy requires an on-going disclosure obligation in the event a conflict arises during the year. The following is our process to regularly and consistently monitor and enforce the policy: Compliance identifies all covered persons who must complete the Survey and Attestation. Compliance verifies that the Survey and Attestation is distributed to these persons. Compliance verifies that these persons return a fully completed and signed”

“Other changes in net assets for the reporting period cobb hospital, inc. Had a change in net assets of ($29,806,221) related to transfers to affiliates as part of the allocation of income statement and balance sheet transactions over the year.”