Bayhealth

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule oas central and southern Delaware's largest healthcare system, bayhealth medical center, inc. Provides a full range of patient care, emergency services and wellness services. Bayhealth is comprised of a total of 423 beds in two acute-care hospitals: bayhealth hospital, kent campus in dover (266 beds) and bayhealth hospital, sussex campus in milford (157 beds). Both hospitals are level iii trauma centers. Bayhealth also has outpatient sites throughout the service area: the freestanding emergency department in smyrna, bayhealth emergency and urgent care center, total care in milton, as well as numerous satellite facilities and employed bayhealth medical group clinician practices encompassing a variety of specialties, including walk-in medical care, laboratory services and imaging services, outpatient rehabilitation and more.bayhealth provides a full range of surgical and medical care with many specialties and services: hematology/ medical oncology and radiation oncology; heart and vascular services including vascular, endovascular and cardiac surgery and electrophysiology; neurosciences; wound care; women's and children's services and perinatology services, among many others. Kent campus has a level ii special care nursery. Bayhealth is a technologically advanced not-for-profit healthcare system with more than 5,000 team members and a medical staff of more than 450 physicians and 200 advanced practice clinicians. Bayhealth owns and operates 42 physican practices in central and southern Delaware. Bayhealth is an affiliate of penn medicine for cardiothoracic surgery and is a member of the penn cancer network.during the twelve months ending june 30, 2025 (fy 25), bayhealth kent campus recorded 53,034 emergency room visits, 12,563 patients admitted to beds, 1,976 births, and 372,747 outpatient visits. Bayhealth sussex campus recorded 34,716 emergency room visits, 7,111 patient admissions, 832 births, and 247,564 outpatient visits. Bayhealth medical center inc. Provided $80.60 million in unreimbursed care to patients.bayhealth was the first teaching hospital in central and southern Delaware introducing graduate medical education in 2019. Since the program's inception, residency programs have been established for family medicine, internal medicine, general surgery, and emergency medicine adding access to patients across the region. In 2024, bayhealth welcomed its first fellows in the hematology/oncology fellowship program -the first of its kind in the state. In 2025, bayhealth welcomed its first gastroenterology fellows and received accreditation for a sports medicine fellowship. In fy 2025, bayhealth hosted students from vocational schools, community colleges, and universities for clinical rotations in nursing and other health professions. Because the service area is deemed to be medically underserved, with a shortage of health professionals, bayhealth actively recruits clinicians to the area.bayhealth has an active community outreach and education program, including health-related classes, support groups, free public screenings, free speakers for community groups, community part mobile care unit. In fy25, bayhealth served 42,967 community members. Bayhealth was represented at more than 95 community events across kent and sussex counties. Bayhealth distributed over 650 hygiene and wound care kits and provided nearly 1,200 free food boxes throughout central and southern Delaware. Bayhealth medical center, inc. Provides care to all patients regardless of their ability to pay for the services rendered.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 66.6%; rating input score 67
• Program expense ratio: 73.9%; rating input score 74
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: 81.6%; rating input score 82; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 12.5%; rating input score 12; 8th 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: 11.2%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings