Brattleboro Memorial Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 030107300
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Brattleboro, VT, USA
- Phone
- 8022570341
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $115,757,208
- Expenses
- $126,554,492
- Assets
- $93,923,083
- Liabilities
- $35,795,936
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tony Blofson MD (Co-CEO/Board Member/Physician)
- Elizabeth McLarney MD (Co-CEO/Board Member/Physician)
- Christopher Dougherty (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Elizabeth McLarney MD (Co-CEO/Board Member/Physician): $931,943 total reported compensation
- Dr Eric D Gallagher (Staff MD Ortho): $748,799 total reported compensation
- Timothy D Kelley (Staff MD Ortho): $621,597 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brattleboro Memorial Hospital will provide community-based quality health services delivered with compassion and respect.
What it reported doing in 2024
Charity Care: The Hospital's charity care program is designed to assist those patients who are either uninsured, underinsured or have limited financial resources that impact their ability to fully pay for their hospital care. Before completing an application for charity care, patients are first asked to investigate whether or not they may be eligible for Medicare, Medicaid, Veteran's Benefits or other governmental or public assistance programs.The Hospital's qualifications for charity care are as follows:1. Charity care is limited to medically necessary services. Patients receiving certain elective services, such as those considered cosmetic, investigational or experimental, are expected to make payment arrangements in advance, as these types of services are not covered by the charity care program.2. The patient's family income must be at or below 400% of the current Federal Poverty Income Guidelines for their applicable family size.The Hospital maintains records to identify and monitor the level of charity care it provides. These records include the amount of charges foregone for services and supplies furnished under its charity care policy, the estimated cost of those services and supplies and equivalent service statistics. The following information measures the level of the charity care provided during the year ended September 30, 2025: Equivalent percentage of charity care services to all services 1.48%In addition, the Hospital incurs a payment shortfall in the treatment of Medicaid patients. This government program reimburses for medical services at less than the costs incurred to provide those services. In September 30, 2025 and 2024, the Hospital incurred a shortfall of approximately $8,960,142 and $11,624,296, respectively, related to treating Medicaid patients.The Hospital also provided other community benefits upon which no monetary value has been placed.-Offers free smoking cessation classes.-Collaborates with other community agencies in publishing a community wellness calendar twice a year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 90% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 65
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 21
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95.8%; rating input score 96
- Program expense ratio: 85.2%; rating input score 85
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 29th 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: -9.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.74; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 95.8% of revenue deployed · 85.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $107.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $932K · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $8.3M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.