East Carolina Health
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 911997979
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Greenville, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2528477479
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $599,551,368
- Expenses
- $558,395,123
- Assets
- $453,939,977
- Liabilities
- $132,230,048
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
30 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VAN SMITH (ECUH COMM HOSP PRESIDENT)
- BRIAN HARVILL (PRESIDENT, ECUH CHOWAN, ECUH BERTIE & ECUH ROANOKE-CHOWAN)
- JASON HARRELL (PRESIDENT, ECUH NORTH)
- JEFFERY DIAL (PRESIDENT, ECUH DUPLIN)
- PATRICK HEINS (PRESIDENT, ECUH EDGECOMBE)
- JAY BRILEY (FORMER PRESIDENT, ECU HEALTH COM HOSP)
Highest reported compensation
- MICHAEL WALDRUM MD (CHAIRMAN): $2,152,599 total reported compensation
- ANDY ZUKOWSKI (SECRETARY/TREASURER): $1,092,370 total reported compensation
- JAY BRILEY (FORMER PRESIDENT, ECU HEALTH COM HOSP): $898,969 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 improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ecu health edgecombe hospital ecu health edgecombe hospital, formerly heritage hospital, is a 117-bed facility located in tarboro, North Carolina. Services at ecu health edgecombe include acute care, inpatient and same day surgery, emergency, critical care, obstetrics/gynecology, and oncology services. It also operates a rural health center, which provides general, pediatric, women's and occupational health services.
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
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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 75
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.7%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th 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: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 15th 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: 6.9%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 83.7% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $501.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 30 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $34.2M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 48 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 32/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.