Peacehealth Networks

“Peacehealth networks is the sole member of peacehealth (ein: 91-0939479). All references below to departments and management refer to peacehealth departments and management. The accounting department prepares the return and works closely with management to prepare and review the return. The return is also reviewed by an outside accounting firm prior to filing. The cfo and legal department review a draft of the form 990 and provide comments. The draft is forwarded to the stewardship committee and to the entire board of directors prior to filing the return.”

“Monitoring & enforcement of conflicts of interest peacehealth networks has no employees, but peacehealth (ein: 91-0939479) and peacehealth networks share a common board of directors. Peacehealth has in place a policy to monitor and prevent a conflict of interest among officers, directors, and key employees. Pursuant to the conflicts of interest policy, an annual conflict of interest questionnaire, aimed at determining any family and business relationships and transactions or other transactions that may pose a potential conflict, is distributed to all board members. Board members are also required to disclose real or potential conflicts at the time when such conflicts arise. Officers and any key employees of peacehealth must agree to the conflict of interest policy at the time of their hire. The conflict of interest policy is discussed with the employee at their annual performance meeting and the employee must self-disclose any conflicts at this time. However, directors, officers and key employees are required to continually consider conflict of interest precepts and self-disclose any potential conflict at the time it arises. Should a potential conflict of interest arise, the board member having a potential conflict of interest shall not participate in discussions, use personal influence or vote on the matter in question. The conflict of interest statements and corresponding policies are monitored and decisions on conflicts are made by the peacehealth board of directors.”

“Peacehealth networks does not compensate employees. Rather, all employees that spend time on peacehealth networks operations are compensated by peacehealth. The peacehealth board of directors - which at present, is identical to the peacehealth networks board of directors - reviews and determines compensation for the ceo. During this process the human resources department works together with the board of directors to determine comparability data across various industry and profit/not-for-profit statuses. The board of directors reviews market data, evaluates ceo performance and reviews the compensation of the ceo. The board also uses an independent compensation consultant to help determine executive compensation. The remaining key employees and officers' compensation is determined by the governance committee of the peacehealth/peacehealth networks board of directors. The governance committee uses many of the same methods of analysis for key employees and officers as they do with the ceo determination, in addition to consulting with the hr department. Decisions are made during a board meeting and are documented in the minutes to the meeting.”

“All governing documents, including the conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are available on request.”

“Change in net assets of columbia united providers -2,584,635.”

“Whatcom health information network (hinet) was dissolved june 23, 2015. The operations were merged into the peacehealth corporate structure.”