Bon Secours Mercy Health
Legal name: Bon Secours Mercy Health Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 521301088
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Blue Ash, OH, United States
- Phone
- 513-952-5000
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $11,537,795,267
- Expenses
- $11,229,979,856
- Assets
- $14,409,463,446
- Liabilities
- $7,046,229,996
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
40 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOHN STARCHER JR JD (President & CEO, Bon Secours Mercy Health)
- Daniel Hurry (President - AHP and BSMH Chief Supply Chain Officer)
- Staci Lucius (President, BSMH Medical Group)
- BRIAN SMITH (Former President and Chief Operating Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN STARCHER JR JD (President & CEO, Bon Secours Mercy Health): $12,809,033 total reported compensation
- DEBORAH BLOOMFIELD PhD CPA (CFO, Board Treasurer (End 07/24)): $3,157,645 total reported compensation
- KENECHUKWU UGOKWE MD (NEUROSURGEON): $3,157,509 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
True to the legacy and the work entrusted to Bon Secours Mercy Health by its foundresses, the Mission reflects the Catholic heritage and commitment to those served. Our Mission Our Mission is to extend the compassionate ministry of Jesus by improving the health and well-being of our communities and bring good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved. Our Mission is to extend the compassionate ministry of Jesus by improving the health and well-being of our communities and bring good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved. Our Vision Inspired by God’s hope for the world, we will be a ministry where associates want to work, clinicians want to practice, people seek wellness and communities thrive.
What it reported doing in 2024
The thirty-two hospitals and various physician practices included on this return extend the healing ministry of jesus by improving the health and well-being of our communities and bringing good help to those in need, especially people who are poor, dying and underserved. This is accomplished by demonstrating behaviors reflecting our core values of human dignity, integrity, compassion, stewardship, and service. Inspired by god's hope for the world, we seek to be a ministry where associates want to work, clinicians want to practice, people seek wellness and communities thrive. The ministry is actively extending health care access, enhancing outcomes and driving value through emerging technologies, investments and partnerships across four areas of focus: core clinical operations, diversified growth, digital innovation, and service and stewardship. Through our core clinical operations, the ministry provides compassionate, value-based care and services to its patients, consumers and communities through its hospitals, physician practices and clinical care sites. Bsmh provides service and stewardship by advocating and working to enhance quality of life and health for all people and to safeguard the earth and its resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 97% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 56
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.5%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- 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: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.4%; rating input score 99; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 25%; rating input score 25; 10th 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: 2.7%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 27.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 89.5% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $10.1B in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $12.8M · 40 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $1.9B reported
- Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 12 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 153 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 362 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.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 25/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 46/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 48/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 37/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.