Bryan Medical Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470376552
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Lincoln, NE, USA
Phone
4024811111
Rating
76
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$970,530,254
Expenses
$824,135,178
Assets
$1,284,940,166
Liabilities
$360,975,973

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

Leadership & pay

34 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC MOOSS (CEO BRYAN MEDICAL CENTER/EX-OFFICIO MEMBER)
  • KELSI ANDERSON (PRESIDENT - BCHS)

Highest reported compensation

  • RUSSELL GRONEWOLD (EX-OFFICIO MEMBER): $1,777,477 total reported compensation
  • ROBERT A OAKES MD (EX-OFFICIO MEMBER): $1,573,250 total reported compensation
  • JOHN WOODRICH (BRYAN HEALTH EXEC VP & COO): $1,302,931 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide excellent care and promote health with a focus on quality, collaboration, and compassion.

What it reported doing in 2024

Bryan medical center is a nationally recognized non-profit, acute care hospital, providing exemplary comprehensive patient care services, medical education, and community services to residents of the lincoln community, state of Nebraska, and other states in the region. Bryan medical center is part of bryan health, one of the largest non-profit health care organizations in the region. Bryan medical center is the largest hospital in lincoln, licensed for 664 beds at two separate locations. Premier services include cardiology, orthopedics, trauma, neuroscience, mental health, women and children's health and oncology. Bryan medical center is the community's only provider of inpatient mental health services and has helped thousands of individuals over the years through the bryan independence center residential substance abuse treatment program. During 2024, bryan medical center admitted 31,561 inpatients, delivered 3,032 babies, and had 102,625 emergency room visits. Bryan medical center is committed to providing health care services for those in need regardless of their ability to pay. During 2024, bryan medical center provided life-saving procedures and medications for over 7,785 individuals who were not eligible for any government or state support and did not have the financial resources to pay their health care services. Unreimbursed cost for charity care totaled $12.6 million. Bryan medical center also incurred $60.7 million in unreimbursed medicare costs, and $33.8 million in medicaid costs and support of other public programs. Bryan medical center served 23,728 medicaid patients in 2024. Bryan medical center provided $4.5 million in the support of health professionals' education, through residency programs and in support of the bryan college of health sciences. During fall 2024, there were 773 students enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs through bryan's school of nursing, health professions and nurse anesthesia programs. Community education, support programs, and services subsidized by the medical center totaled $3.4 million. Donations to other non-profit organizations totaled more than $954,000. Bryan medical center's quantifiable community benefit for 2024 totaled more than $116 million.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 68
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 79%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 91.8%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 80.6%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th 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: 15.1%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.4% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.1% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 79% of revenue deployed · 91.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 15 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $757M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.8M · 34 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $41.2M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 38 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: 24 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 31 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: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.