Aspirus Health
Legal name: Aspirus Ironwood Hospital & Clinics Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 382908586
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2011–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Wausau, WI, US
- Phone
- 800-283-2881
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $92,895,818
- Expenses
- $82,336,797
- Assets
- $46,311,107
- Liabilities
- $22,865,596
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JENNIFER REDMAN-SCHELL (VICE CHAIR/SVP & PRESIDENT-AMG)
- CHRISTINE HARFF ((NV) PRESIDENT-UP REGION)
- MATTHEW HEYWOOD (PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS)
- JESSE TISCHER (SVP & PRESIDENT-AWH (FORMER))
Highest reported compensation
- MATTHEW HEYWOOD (PRESIDENT & CEO ASPIRUS): $4,230,174 total reported compensation
- SIDNEY SCZYGELSKI (SVP OF FINANCE/CFO (FORMER)): $1,508,031 total reported compensation
- TATYANA BOMBARD (RADIOLOGIST): $1,099,666 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Treat each person in the best way possible.
What it reported doing in 2024
Aspirus ironwood hospital and clinics is a 25-bed critical access hospital which provides health care services to residents of ironwood, Michigan and its surrounding communities including northern wi. Some of the services provided beyond traditional inpatient hospitalizations include surgery, emergency care, radiology, laboratory, therapies, eye care, oncology, and cardiology, among various other health care services.inpatient days: 3,732, swing bed days: 993, emergency room visits: 10,939ironwood clinic: provides patient services including family medicine, orthopedics, surgery, behavioral health, and various other health care services. Provided 72,641 patient visits.surgery: aiw offers ip and op surgeries in cardiac, gastroenterology, general, ob/gyn, ophthalmology, orthopedics, and podiatry areas. Performed 2,282 total surgeries.retail pharmacy: continued to expand services to the greater ironwood service area to provide prescriptions. Total prescription volume for fiscal year 2025 was 11,280.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 63
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 71
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.1%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th 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: 11.4%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 67.1% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $62.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4.2M · 33 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.1M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 34 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.