Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation Inc.

“John collins business relationship with julie yarbrough and stephen mansfield michael hutton has a business relationship with stephen mansfield.”

“The form 990 is prepared by the mhs tax department. During the return preparation process the tax department looks to other functional areas including finance, human resources, accounting, legal, corporate compliance, and treasury for assistance in preparing a complete and accurate return. Upon completion the return is reviewed with the reporting organizations applicable senior financial officer prior to filing. Further, as part of the annual financial audit of mhs the form 990's of all of its subsidiary organizations are provided to a national accounting firm for review. Mhs is the sole member and parent company of this reporting organization. The mhs individual return is reviewed with a committee of its senior board members and then provided electronically to all of the mhs board members prior to the filing of the mhs return. While the return of this reporting organization is not individually reviewed by its separate board mhs believes that sufficient quality control and overall governance oversight exists throughout the preparation stages of all of the mhs related returns. Further mhs believes that the level of detailed mhs board review of the parent organization's return is sufficient to insure that all of the intended tax-exempt and governance requirements for the entire organization are met. The form 990 of any of the mhs entities is always available to any board member at their request.”

“Annual questionairre to officers, directors and key employees which are also monitored by internal audit corporate compliance functions of its parent methodist health system.”

“Compensation for officers and key employees is paid by its parent organization, methodist health system, which uses a formal review process to review compensation of employees. Officers compensation is subject to further reveiw by the board of methodist health system”

“UPON REQUEST”

“Employees of the methodist hospitals foundation are on the payroll of methodist hospitals of dallas and all payroll functions and reporting is handled via the methodist hospitals accounts. The payroll costs are then allocated back to the foundation and that is what is reported in this return as wages even though there is not w-2 earnings directly attributable to the methodist hospitals of dallas foundation.”

“All of the contractors for the methodist health foundation are paid by its parent organization methodist hospitals. Therefore there are no 1099's issued by the foundation.”

“The methodist hospital of dallas foundation d/b/a methodist health system foundation is part of a consolidated audit with the nelle norrell foundation. It is also consolidated as part of the audit of the methodist health system. Both mhs and the foundation have committees designated to oversee the process of selection of the audit firm and the results of the respective audits.”