Physician Associates of Southwest Dallas

“Methodist hospitals of dallas (it's 501(c)(3) parent) is the sole member of the organization and has approval rights regarding actions of the board”

“Methodist hospitals of dallas (it's 501(c)(3) parent) is the sole member of the organization and has approval rights regarding actions of the board”

“Methodist hospitals of dallas (it's 501(c)(3) parent) is the sole member of the organization and has approval rights regarding actions of the board”

“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 organizations 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 survey and monitoring by interal audit and compliance officer of parent organization”

“All review by this board or board of parent company”

“UPON REQUEST”

“Pasd's financial statements are audited on a consolidated basis with those of its parent organization methodist hospitals of dallas, d/b/a methodist health system. The parent organization does have an audit committee resposible for the selection of the independent audit firm who reviews their findings with the committee at least annually.”