Marshall Health Network - Cabell Huntington Hospital

Legal name: Cabell Huntington Hospital Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
550675666
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Huntington, WV, United States
Phone
304.526.2000
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,000,947,477
Expenses
$895,751,497
Assets
$1,190,856,234
Liabilities
$497,554,954

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

Leadership & pay

42 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIM MARTIN (PRESIDENT)
  • KEVIN YINGLING (MHN PRESIDENT & CEO - ENDED MARCH 2025)
  • SHAWN BASTIN (RIVERS HEALTH PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • NEPAL CHOWDHURY (PHYSICIAN): $2,895,449 total reported compensation
  • DWIGHT SAULLE (NEUROSURGEON PHYSICIAN): $2,497,279 total reported compensation
  • MATTHEW WERTHAMMER (NEUROSURGEON PHYSICIAN): $2,105,628 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 meet lifetime healthcare needs of those served. To provide the highest level of service, quality, and efficiency. To advance healthcare through education. In addition to the hospital itself, the campus includes several other healthcare facilities sharing our mission and serving our community: The Marshall University Medical Center adjoins Cabell Huntington Hospital through a four-story atrium. In addition to the administrative offices and the clinical practice area, it includes the Harless Auditorium, Cabell Huntington Hospital Gift Shop, Perk Place Coffee Shop, the SMART Center and the Marshall Pharmacy. Patients have access to Marshall University's physicians and specialists, as well as all the services the hospital has to offer, all conveniently located under one roof. The Edwards Comprehensive Cancer Center offers comprehensive cancer care.

What it reported doing in 2024

Cabell huntington hospital is very involved with the community it serves. During the fiscal year 2025, it held numerous events, including free or discounted health screenings, therapy, & evaluations, education outreach, support groups, health fairs, and community training. Over 23,490 people attended these events that took place between october 1, 2024 and september 30, 2025. The cost associated with these activities is $1,136,081. The organization also gives back to the community by participating in various programs that promote healthy and safe lifestyles for the people that live here. The hospital gave $48,355 for the support of huntington's kitchen program that promotes healthy eating lifestyles. The amount of $9,375 was given to wv medical foundation to support local professionals well being. Additionally, the hospital gave $130,289 to marshall health network to help support various community building activities such as: support was given to the huntington museum of art for various local programs, to the huntington children's museum activities, to the shepherds house a recovery program for fighting addiction, to the facing hunger food bank for their fighting hunger program, and to ymca of huntington to support various health community outreaches. Amounts given the marshall health network also supported various other community programs such as coalition for the homeless, city of huntington foundation, coalfield development, contact huntington, drwv foundation, education alliance, heritage farm foundation, river cities ministry, stepping stones, team for wv children, hospice of huntington, united way, and big brothers big sisters. Additionally, the organization provides acute inpatient and outpatient care including services that are reimbursed for and noted as charity care. Any person is provided services regardless of their ability to pay. The hospital's charity care services was $11,986,441 (which is netted against revenues) and bad debt expense was $56,644,604. The hospital considers all of this a community service.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 97% 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 total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 76
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 65
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 71.4%; rating input score 71
  • Program expense ratio: 80.4%; rating input score 80
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 60%; rating input score 60; 16th 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: 10.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 71.4% of revenue deployed · 80.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 10 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $720.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.9M · 42 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $43.5M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 11 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: 5 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 11 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.