Deaconess Health System

Legal name: Deaconess Health System Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
351532889
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Evansville, IN, US
Phone
812-450-5000
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$338,378,498
Expenses
$306,954,899
Assets
$739,079,575
Liabilities
$495,834,531

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

Leadership & pay

32 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHAWN MCCOY (CEO)
  • JAMES R PORTER (PRESIDENT, DHS)
  • LYNN LINGAFELTER (PRESIDENT)
  • MARC FLORENCE (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • BRADLEY SCHEU MD (VICE PRESIDENT)
  • MELINDA LEBOFSKY (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHAWN MCCOY (CEO): $2,206,787 total reported compensation
  • MIA HINDI MD (DIRECTOR): $1,703,267 total reported compensation
  • LYNN LINGAFELTER (PRESIDENT): $1,271,339 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

We put people at the center of everything we do, making a positive difference in the lives of our patients, families, employees and community—that is the Deaconess difference.

What it reported doing in 2024

Deaconess health system is a premiere provider of health care services to a population of more than 1.5 million in southwestern Indiana, western Kentucky and southeastern Illinois. The system, based in evansville, Indiana, includes 23 hospitals among them deaconess midtown hospital, deaconess gateway hospital, the women's hospital, deaconess henderson hospital, deaconess memorial medical center and numerous other hospital affiliates. Deaconess clinic, a fully integrated multispecialty group featuring primary care physicians as well as top specialty doctors, provides patients with consistent and convenient care. Continue on schedule o.additional components include the linda e. White hospice house, a freestanding cancer center, urgent care facilities, near-site clinics, telemedicine, virtual visits, a network of preferred hospitals and doctors and multiple partnerships with other regional health care providers.other activities include: deaconess care integration is a wholly owned accountable care organization formed with the purpose of developing a care delivery model focused on quality metrics and reduction in costs for the medicare population. Healthcare resource solutions is a wholly owned organization that provides revenue cycle and billing services.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 98% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Liabilities are high compared with assets and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 75
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 94
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 88.6%; rating input score 89
  • 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: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 36th 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: 9.3%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.41; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.67; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3.9%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 29.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 88.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 16 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $272.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 32 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $18.4M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 32 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 28 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 37 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.