Amberwell Atchison Association
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 480561974
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2020
- Location
- Atchison, KS, USA
- Phone
- 9133605584
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $62,365,308
- Expenses
- $62,438,395
- Assets
- $45,265,684
- Liabilities
- $34,559,437
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFFREY PERRY (PRESIDENT & CEO THRU 5/24)
- JARED ABEL (PRESIDENT & CEO FROM 6/24)
Highest reported compensation
- RODERICK WARREN MD FACS (PHYSICIAN): $751,591 total reported compensation
- JOHNATHAN LECK MD (PHYSICIAN): $748,622 total reported compensation
- BRIAN DUNCAN MD (PHYSICIAN): $738,060 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Amberwell health provides compassionate care with clinical excellence.
What it reported doing in 2024
Amberwell atchison association d/b/a amberwell atchison (hospital) is a critical access hospital (cah) that provides related inpatient, outpatient, emergency care, and physician services to patients in and around atchison, Kansas.amberwell atchison provided acute inpatient and outpatient health services to the general public. Services include but are not limited to: emergency services, home health and hospice, general inpatient acute services, radiology, & obstetrics. The number of patients served during the year ending 12/31/24 was 41,447.statement continued on schedule o.the hospital maintains a financial assistance policy for patients who are financially unable to pay for the healthcare services they receive. It is the policy of the hospital not to pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as patient financial assistance under the policy. Accordingly, the hospital does not report these amounts in patient service revenue. The hospital determines the costs associated with providing charity care by aggregating the direct and in direct costs, including salaries, benefits, supplies, and other operating expenses, based on an overall cost to charge ratio. The costs of caring for these patients for the year ended december 31, 2024 were approximately $624,000.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 94% 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.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 24
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- 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: 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -0.1%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.72; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 8.1%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.8% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.3% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 84.5% of revenue deployed · 84.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $52.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $752K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.5M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.