Advocate Health Care

What it reported doing in 2024

Advocate health care (ahc) is the largest health system in Illinois and a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. One of the state's largest private employers, the system serves patients across 9 hospitals, including two children's campuses, and more than 250 sites of care. Advocate health care is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, and is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, and pediatrics. To learn more, visit exceptional care any time, any where | advocate health care. Advocate health (ah) is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the united states, created from the combination of advocate aurora health and atrium health. Providing care under the names advocate health care in Illinois; atrium health in the carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and aurora health care in Wisconsin, advocate health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Wake forest university school of medicine serves as the academic core of the enterprise. Advocate health is nationally recognized for its expertise in heart and vascular, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. For reporting community benefits in compliance with the Illinois community benefits act (2003), the content of this report will focus on advocate aurora's Illinois hospitals which are identified as "advocate" for state reporting and local brand identity purposes. This document provides a summary of community health programs and activities completed across advocate in 2021--demonstrating fulfillment of all federal and Illinois state requirements while also living out our commitment to addressing the root causes of health access. Description of advocate health care (Illinois). While advocate is one of two organizations that merged in april 2018 to become advocate aurora health, advocate in Illinois maintains a separate fein and therefore the narrative that immediately follows pertains predominantly to advocate health care (Illinois). Advocate is a not-for-profit provider that is affiliated with both the evangelical lutheran church in america and the united church of christ. The organization is one of the largest fully integrated health care systems in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the midwest. In 2024, as part of a network of nearly 250 sites of care in Illinois, advocate's more than 37,000 team members provided care at nine hospitals, including a children's hospital located on two campuses (oak lawn and park ridge, Illinois), totaling 3,718 licensed beds. Advocate had a combined total of 312,359 inpatient admissions, 1,683,079 outpatient visits and 524,481 emergency department visits (total trauma and non-trauma) in 2024. In addition, advocate is recognized as having one of the largest home health care companies in the state with 31,067 admits in 2024, and advocate hospice had 129,440 hospice patient days. Recognitions & accomplishments see attachments for 2024 system awards & accoladesculture and diversitysee attachment for 2024 peoples, leadership, dei awardsmodern healthcare's 100 most influential people in healthcare. Advocate health ceos jim skogsbergh and eugene wood were named to modern healthcare's 100 most infulential people in healthcare 2023 list, recognizing leaders who helped their organization achieve measurable results, improve de&i efforts and are considerd a leading voice in the industry. Click here.36 hospitals on forbes list of best employers for diversity. Advocate aurora health is among the 36 health systems and hospitals to make the list of america's best employers for diversity. The rankings are based on a survey of 60,000 americans working for businesses with at least 1,000 employees. Click here.other notable advocate aurora accomplishm

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st 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: Pass
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 32nd 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -6.6%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.86; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 6% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 10.7% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings