Bon Secours Charity Health System

What it reported doing in 2024

Bon secours charity health system affiliated group is composed of three acute care hospitals, a primary and specialty medical care practice and two long-term care and residential facilities: good samaritan hospital of suffern, ny; bon secours community hospital; st. Anthony community hospital; bon secours charity health system medical group, pc; st. Francis center at the knolls (dba mount alverno center); and villas francis at the knolls (dba schervier pavilion). Good samaritan hospital (gsh) operates a 286-bed hospital located in suffern, New York that provides emergency, medical, surgical, obstetrical/gynecological and acute care services to rockland and orange counties, New York and northern bergen county, New Jersey. Gsh has a designated stroke center and acute myocardial infarction (ami) program, and a regional cardiovascular program, providing open heart surgery, a cardiac catheterization laboratory, emergency angioplasty, electrophysiology studies and a pacemaker clinic. Gsh is the only facility in the region with an angiography suite to treat vascular disease with new 3d diagnostic equipment which provides image guided therapy to evalute arteries and veins to identify blockages more precisely. Gsh has been named one of health grades america's 100 best hospital's for coronary intervention for 4 years in a row (2018-2021). Along with the coronary intervention excellence award from healthgrades, gsh has received many awards and in 2014 was named one of the nation's 50 top cardiovascular hospitals by truven health analytics. Gsh offers a comprehensive women's breast center, wound and hyperbaric center, sleep study center and maternal/child services, including a level ii neonatal intensive care unit supported by pediatric subspecialists from westchester medical center (wmc). The women's breast center at gsh is the only facility in the area that offers a high risk screening program to identify women who meet criteria for high risk, during their routine screenings. Gsh's surgical weight loss institute provides pre-operative, surgical care and outpatient post-operative bariatric support. Gsh also provides kidney dialysis, psychiatric and substance abuse services and a range of social support services, education and population health services. The ob emergency department in collaboration with the ob hospitalist program provides emergency obstetrical services in the ob emergency department. The ob-gyn department received the healthgrades five star award for vaginal delivery for the 6 consecutive years (2015-2020) by healthgrades, as well as the obstetrics and gynecology excellence award for 2 consecutive years (2019-2020). The campus also includes a medical office building housing a state-of-the-art ambulatory surgery center, which includes primary care and specialty physicians. Gsh's certified home care agency provides home health services to the residents of rockland and orange counties, New York. This program is for patients who have acute needs and require home care for a relatively short period of time and will be discharged when they are stabilized or returned to a pre-illness level of functioning. Additional services include wound and ostomy assessments, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology, medical social work, nutrition and home health aides. The home health agency is certified for expansion into manhattan and westchester county, New York. Bon secours community hospital (bsch) operates a 122-bed acute care hospital located in port jervis, New York that provides community-based care to residents in the port jervis, New York and surrounding areas (orange and sullivan counties in New York, sussex county in New Jersey and pike county in Pennsylvania). Bsch provides emergency care, laboratory and imaging services, medical and surgical services, intensive care unit, inpatient dialysis, cardiopulmonary care, infusion therapy outpatient wound care, and a diabetes programs. Bsch also offers inpatient psychiat

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 98.5%; rating input score 98
• Program expense ratio: 86.7%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th 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: -13.7%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.49; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -0.6% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings