Ohio Valley Surgical Hospital

Legal name: Clark County Hospital Services Corporation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
880770775
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Springfield, OH, US
Phone
937.521.3900
Rating
56
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, Specialty

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,292,359
Expenses
$62,706,393
Assets
$42,048,563
Liabilities
$33,684,130

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

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Dean Elaine (PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR (END 12/19/2024))
  • Markovich Stephen E MD (CEO/President/Board (START 12/20/2024))

Highest reported compensation

  • Markovich Stephen E MD (CEO/President/Board (START 12/20/2024)): $6,546,210 total reported compensation
  • Browning Mike P (SR. VP AND CFO (START 12/20/2024)): $2,221,626 total reported compensation
  • McWhorter John (SR. VP AND COO (START 12/20/2024)): $1,447,137 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 expert diagnostic and screening capabilities, innovative treatment solutions, and award-winning patient care in a comfortable, safe environment.

What it reported doing in 2024

Clark county hospital services corporation (cchs) maintains control over the operations and governance of Ohio valley medical center (ovmc). Ovmc has expanded its service offerings, providing the community with greater overall access to highly trained and specialized physicians. Cchs, through ovmc, provides various education programs as part of its operations including its breast cancer treatment and screening center, which was awarded a gold seal of approval by the american college of radiology. Cchs plans to develop new education programs to address specific community needs that it identifies.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% 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

MIXED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 66
  • Accountability: 14
  • Sustainability: 28
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 75%; rating input score 75
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 3 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -2.3%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.67; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.8; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 44.4% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 66.9% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 79.4% per year; rating input score 100; 100th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 75% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 3 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $6.5M · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay and related organizations
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 40 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.