Mercy Care

“Mercy care has board members who work for dignity health and ascension care management. Linda hunt, doug watson, tammy wilcox and keith frey have a business relationship through employment with dignity health. Robert smith, janet walker, and tim moorhead have a business relationship with ascension care management.”

“Mercy care has a management agreement with aetna medicaid administrators to cover employee salary and benefit costs and general and administrative expenses incurred to operate the organization. Mercy care has no direct employees.”

“Mercy care is a nonprofit corporation whose sponsor (member) organizations are dignity health and ascension care management.”

“Both dignity health and ascension care management shall each have the power to nominate an even number of persons up to four (4) to the board of directors of this corporation.”

“Any action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to these articles by the corporate members shall be valid only if such action has received the appropriate internal approval of each voting member organization. It is acknowledged that the authority of the voting member to grant approval of the actions set forth above is, in certain instances, subject to restrictions which may require the members to obtain the approval of consent of others within the sponsoring organizations.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the mercy care executive management, external accountants and the mercy care audit and compliance committee. A redacted version of the return is submitted to the mercy care board of directors for review.”

“Mercy care has a conflict of interest policy. All mercy care corporate members, board of directors and committees, and the corporate officers of mercy care shall prepare and submit to the filing officer on an annual basis, no later than july 31 of each calendar year, an annual conflicts of interest disclosure statement. The conflict of interest must be fully disclosed to the board or committee prior to consideration of an affected business transaction. The interested person will be counted in determining the presence of a quorum, but will not be eligible to vote on the contract or transaction. The interested person may participate in discussions regarding the affected business transaction, but will be excused from the meeting prior to completion of the discussion, and does not return until discussion and voting on the matter have been concluded.”

“Mercy care contracts with aetna medicaid administrators to provide all management services for mercy care. This entity does not have any direct employees.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and audited financial statements are available to the public upon request.”

“Mercy care has board members who work for the related organization, dignity health and ascension care management. Linda hunt, doug watson, tammy wilcox, keith frey and mark slyter have a business relationship through employment with dignity health. Robert smith, janet walker, tim moorhead, and dr. Thomas graf have a business relationship with ascension care management.”

“Mercy care has a management agreement with aetna medicaid administrators to cover employee salary and benefit costs and general and administrative expenses incurred to operate the organization. Mercy care has no direct employees.”

“Mercy care is a nonprofit corporation whose sponsor (member) organizations are dignity health and ascension care management.”

“Both dignity health and ascension care management shall each have the power to nominate an even number of persons up to four (4) to the board of directors of this corporation.”

“Any action required or permitted to be taken pursuant to these articles by the corporate members shall be valid only if such action has received the appropriate internal approval of each voting member organization. It is acknowledged that the authority of the voting member to grant approval of the actions set forth above is, in certain instances, subject to restrictions which may require the members to obtain the approval of consent of others within the sponsoring organizations.”

“The form 990 is reviewed by the mercy care executive management, external accountants and the mercy care audit and compliance committee. A redacted version of the return is submitted to the mercy care board of directors for review.”

“Mercy care has a conflict of interest policy. All mercy care corporate members, board of directors and committees, and the corporate officers of mercy care shall prepare and submit to the filing officer on an annual basis, no later than july 31 of each calendar year, an annual conflicts of interest disclosure statement.”

“A) the conflict of interest must be fully disclosed to the board or committee prior to consideration of an affected business transaction. The interested person will be counted in determining the presence of a quorum, but will not be eligible to vote on the contract or transaction. The interested person may participate in discussions regarding the affected business transaction, but will be excused from the meeting prior to completion of the discussion, and does not return until discussion and voting on the matter have been concluded.”

“Mercy care contracts with aetna medicaid administrators to provide all management services for mercy care. This entity does not have any direct employees.”

“The governing documents, conflict of interest policy, audited financial statements and form 990 is available to the public upon request.”

“Distribution to ascension care management -29,850,000. Distribution to dignity health -29,850,000. Decrease in note receivable from equality foundation 214,288.”

“During the fiscal year ended june 30, 2020, mercy care paid a net asset distribution of $29,850,000 to ascension care management, $29,850,000 to dignity health offset by a decrease in note receivable of $214,286 from equality health.”