Blessing Hospital

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
370661183
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Quincy, IL, USA
Phone
2172231200
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$731,188,393
Expenses
$706,101,422
Assets
$859,741,645
Liabilities
$304,730,432

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN T CANFIELD TERMED 42025 (PRES/CEO BCS)

Highest reported compensation

  • DR HUMAM FARAH (PHYSICIAN): $1,715,556 total reported compensation
  • DR JOHN H ARNOLD (PHYSICIAN &): $1,547,233 total reported compensation
  • DR MILTON OCHIENG (PHYSICIAN): $1,326,072 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Blessing hospital's mission is to improve the health of our communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

Since it was founded in 1873, blessing hospital has provided quality health care services to all patients regardless of race, sex, national origin, age, or ability to pay. In serving all members of its communities, blessing hospital continues this tradition by providing free/subsidized care, care to persons covered by governmental programs at less than full charges, and community heath/education/wellness programs. For fiscal year 2025, the cost of charity care provided was 8,110,560 and medicare shortfalls were 110,542,589. Blessing hospital treated patients through the following services during fiscal year 2025: 39,880 emergency center visits; 562,288 outpatient visits; 14,237 surgical operations, 14,821 inpatient admissions, and 1,119 babies. Outpatient services included 84,401 cardiopulmonary/cardiology procedures, 1,035,075 laboratory tests, 122,297 radiology procedures, and 135,761 physical therapy/rehabilitation visits. Blessing hospital provided additional benefits of 9,968,515 to the community during fiscal year 2025 as follows: health professionals education siu residency program 2,921,873 blessing-rieman college of nursing and health sciences 2,624,815 nursing educational preceptors 51,102 sub total health professionals education 5,597,790 community health improvement services adams county health department dental program 50,000 patient transportation and lodging 421,729 charity pharmacy prescriptions 2,390,462 health screenings/tests 86,913 medical supplies/services for patients 53,454 behavioral health educational programs 8,220 medical interpreting services 54,201 sub total community health improvement services 3,064,979 subsidized health services care coordination 1,232,011 sub total subsidized health services 1,232,011 in-kind contributions/donations donations/sponsorships 73,735 sub total in-kind contributions/donations 73,735 blessing hospital's strategic objectives for the upcoming years are as follows: 1)patient satisfaction increase percent promoters to 82% or higher 2)patient quality improve overall quality to 81% or higher 3)patient access increase patient office visits to greater than 8.4 visits per provider 4)fiscal health increase cash from operations to greater than -1.1% achieve operating margin of greater than 1.5% 5)employee engagement achieve an engagement score of greater than 7.7 6)electronic health record change retention of greater than 90% for the epic system standardization

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 94% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 some related-organization disclosures are missing.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 73
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 77%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 79.1%; rating input score 79
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 61.5%; rating input score 62; 17th 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: Fail
    • 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: 3.4%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.22; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.35; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.4% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 77% of revenue deployed · 79.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $558.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 26 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $36.3M reported
  • Consistency: 40 of 40 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 20 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 17 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.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 46/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 50/100.