Metropolitan Hospital
Overview
Mission
Metro health's mission is to improve the health and well-being of our communities. To that end the organization believes the foundation of good health is based on excellent quality primary care. The organization is anchored by a 208-bed, general acute care community hospital. Additionally, it operates 13 neighborhood outpatient centers, student health facilities at grand valley state university and a community clinic for the underserved. The neighborhood outpatient centers reaches out to the organization's service area, allowing patients access to quality healthcare close to home; services at them include primary care, lab services, mammography, x-ray and physical therapy. In addition to primary care services, the organization provides specialty care at its heart and vascular practice, cancer center, ambulatory surgery center, ophthalmology office, sleep lab and other sites. The organization also focuses on improving the health of the community before people need healthcare. It does th
What it reported doing in 2024
Metro health hospital is a 208-bed teaching hospital that provides a comprehensive suite of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services, including fast emergency services, cancer and cardiac care, robotic and traditional surgery, family practice, internal medicine, sports medicine and others. The organization's mission is to improve the health and well- being of the communities it serves. To that end, metro provides education and screening programs for the community, education opportunities for future doctors, nurses and other health professions, financial assistance programs, care for the underserved, and much more. During fiscal year 2025, metro health welcomed 1,728 babies into our community, cared for 57,104 emergency room visits, performed 1, 881,544 laboratory tests and 227,323 diagnostic radiology procedures and counted 44,641 patient days. The metro health community clinic, which provides medical care to the underserved, provided care for 14,467 patient visits. Metro health's medical education program included 128 medical students, residents and fellows.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 380593405
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Headquarters
- Wyoming, MI, USA
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 95
- Accountability: 77
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0.9%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.74; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.3% of revenue deployed · 84.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $558.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.3M · 48 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $29.8M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 30 filed related-organization links
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Leadership & pay
48 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- DAVID C MILLER MD PHD (VICE CHAIR): $3,257,143 total reported compensation
- ERIC STRUCKO - PART YEAR (TREASURER): $1,638,233 total reported compensation
- MARGARET DIMOND PHD - PART YEAR (EX-OFFICIO): $1,464,110 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: FY2024.