BayCare Winter Haven Hospital
Legal name: Winter Haven Hospital Inc
Overview
Mission
To improve the health of all we serve through community-owned health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. AS a part of BayCare Health System, Winter Haven Hospital is the best place to work, receive and provide care. We are powered by an extraordinary team that delivers quality, drives innovation and embraces inclusivity.
What it reported doing in 2024
Winter haven hospital, inc. (whh) is a full-service 519 bed community hospital. During 2024, whh provided inpatient care to 18,235 patients, treated 74,647 patients in the emergency department, and delivered 1,691 babies. Through efforts of the medical assistance program and the hospital's charity care program, whh saw a net community benefit expense totaling approximately $41.3 million. The hospital also provided other community services totaling nearly $8.1 million. Refer to schedule h for additional information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
- 590724462
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Clearwater, FL, US
- Phone
- 1-800-BayCare (229-2273)
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 62
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85.9%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.4%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.57; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.3% of revenue deployed · 85.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $403.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.2M · 27 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $18.2M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 30 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 60 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
Leadership & pay
27 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- LOUIS GALDIERI (PRESIDENT/CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $1,212,845 total reported compensation
- RONALD BEAMON (VP, CFO BAYCARE HOSP DIV): $975,683 total reported compensation
- THOMAS GARTHWAITE (PRESIDENT WINTER HAVEN HOSPITAL): $715,519 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.