Community Hospital
Legal name: Colorado West Healthcare System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 840469270
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Jun 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Grand Junction, CO, USA
- Phone
- (970) 242-0920
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $312,467,338
- Expenses
- $305,467,332
- Assets
- $260,468,667
- Liabilities
- $186,234,645
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
29 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Christian Thomas (President & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Christian Thomas (President & CEO): $1,321,554 total reported compensation
- James Rose (Physician): $1,025,658 total reported compensation
- Peter Shorten (Physician): $900,452 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Community Hospital will improve the health and quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. We recognize our employees, volunteers, physicians, and students as our greatest and most valuable assets. We support them through education, recognition, and opportunities for personal growth. Community Health Needs Assessment Community Hospital strives to inspire and support people to be healthier in all aspects of the lives, building happier, healthier and stronger communities. In pursuit of our mission, we have been an active participant in the Community Needs Health Assessment (CNHA) in collaboration with Mesa County Public Health and a number of other local hospitals and organizations. This effort demonstrates that Community Hospital makes an ongoing commitment to improve the health of.
What it reported doing in 2024
Community Hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency, urgent, and primary health care services to communities in western Colorado which has been identified as a physician shortage area. During the tax year ended December 2024, Community Hospital had 13,065 patient days, 22,459 emergency room visits, 18,662 urgent care visits, 66,270 primary care visits, 12,366 oncology infusions and performed 5,076 surgeries. During the tax year, the Hospital was able to provide charity care services to those who could not otherwise afford necessary medical care. The Hospital provides care to persons covered by governmental programs at/or below cost and to individuals who are unable to pay.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 99% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
- Program expense ratio: 77%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 31st 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: 2.2%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.85; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.71; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 10.6% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 13.7% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 77% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $235.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.3M · 29 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $10M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 5 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 44/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 34/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 21/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.