WVU Medicine
Legal name: City Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550383321
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Martinsburg, WV, US
- Phone
- 304-264-1000
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $426,927,253
- Expenses
- $403,115,082
- Assets
- $226,207,312
- Liabilities
- $70,668,121
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
20 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Albert Wright (Director, CEO WVUHS)
- Brad Wright MD (Director / JMC Med Staff President)
- Jeffrey DeBord DO (Director / BMC Med Staff President)
Highest reported compensation
- Albert Wright (Director, CEO WVUHS): $2,726,278 total reported compensation
- Jason T White (Chief CRNA): $458,038 total reported compensation
- Nicole Ludwig (CRNA): $444,356 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Delivering high-quality care close to home.
What it reported doing in 2024
As part of the WVU Cancer Institute, the WVU Medicine University Healthcare Regional Cancer Center provides cancer care in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Our cancer program, based at City Hospital, has been accredited by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer since 1992 and is a recipient of their Outstanding Achievement Award. We are proud to be among the 25 of hospitals in the country with an ACOS accredited cancer program. Quality, Compassion, Collaboration. Our comprehensive cancer program includes the Outpatient Cancer and Infusion Center, a dedicated Inpatient Oncology Unit with all private rooms, Board Certified Radiation and Medical Oncologists, Patient Navigators, Radiation Therapy, and Clinical Trials. We partner with the American Cancer Society to offer education and support to patients and their families affected by cancer. A Resource Room, located on the 1st floor of the McCormack Center on City Hospitals Campus, provides free information on various programs and services available to cancer patients and their loved ones.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 94% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 73
- Transparency & Controls: 68
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.9%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 85%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.6%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.31; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 79.9% of revenue deployed · 85% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $342.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 20 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $28.5M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 41 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 59/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 54/100.