Emerson Health
Overview
Mission
Emerson Health Excellence Personalized Providing high quality healthcare close to home at Emerson Hospital in Concord and health centers throughout the region. We proudly offer advanced primary, specialty, and urgent care in convenient locations. Our values of safety, compassion, and equity are at the heart of everything we do. We bring high-quality care to you through our experienced medical staff and strong collaborations with Mass General Brigham.
What it reported doing in 2023
Emerson hospital provides homecare services. Home care is available 24 hours per day and 7 days per week to homebound patients of all ages. Primary homecare services include professional nurses who deliver medical care as ordered by physicians, rehabilitation professionals who work with patients to restore function and independence and home health aides who assist with personal care tasks. For the fiscal year ending september 30, 2024 emerson hospital saw 1,722 new homecare patients and performed 18,526 homecare visits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The nonprofit carried out 100% of its reported program work directly.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 042103565
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Website reviewed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023, Form 990-T 2023
- Headquarters
- Concord, MA, USA
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Available reserves provide a limited financial cushion and the website gives limited detail about leaders and governance practices.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 92
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 79
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.4%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
- Public monitoring controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public policy transparency: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public financial transparency: 0 of 5 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Impact reporting controls: 0 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Public relationship transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Public governance controls: 0 of 4 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Zakat policy transparency: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.2%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Operating reserve ratio: 0.82; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.62; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 91.4% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $341.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 27 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 annual filings from 2009 to 2023
- Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 12 filed related-organization links