Wellstar
Legal name: Douglas Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 582026750
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- (770) 956-STAR (7827)
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $270,645,471
- Expenses
- $259,607,663
- Assets
- $108,928,649
- Liabilities
- $41,054,797
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
91 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- JON-PAUL CROOM (SVP & HOSPITAL PRESIDENT)
- REMINGTON FOSS (SVP HOSPITAL PRESIDENT WG)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $5,069,923 total reported compensation
- LEO REICHERT (EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,619,966 total reported compensation
- RICHARD CAPPS (EVP CHIEF INFO & DIGITAL OFFCR): $1,579,418 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 create and deliver high-quality healthcare services that improve the health and well-being of the individuals we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
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 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 81.5%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 0th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 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: 4.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.38; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.1%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 78.1% of revenue deployed · 81.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $211.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.1M · 91 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 29 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 59/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Foreign grants require schedule f did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.