Fairview Health Services

What it reported doing in 2024

Fairview Health Services is an integrated academic health system located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and, along with its affiliates and subsidiaries, is one of the leading health care providers in Minnesota with $8 billion in operating revenue for 2024. Fairview offers a broad continuum of health care services through its hospitals, clinics, and other health care related operations and is a Minnesota nonprofit corporation that is exempt from federal income taxation under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The most recent community health needs assessment (CHNA) identified 3 key areas as the greatest needs in our community - navigating and accessing care and resources; healing, connectedness, and mental health; structural racism and barriers to equity. Fairview Health Services is meeting the needs of the community by focusing on racial and ethnic populations experiencing health disparities and people experiencing poverty through partnering with the community to build solutions, removing barriers to create and expand relevant programs and focused services. Please see Schedule H for a description of additional services, community benefit activities, and the full spectrum of charity care that Fairview Health Services provides to the community. Fairview serves the entire twelve-county Minneapolis/St. Paul Metro Area, as well as communities throughout greater Minnesota and portions of Northern Iowa and Western Wisconsin, and the Dakotas. It is one of the most comprehensive and geographically accessible systems in Minnesota. The Fairview System consists of ten hospitals, including M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center and M Health Fairview Masonic Children's Hospital (collectively, "UMMC"), which is the adult and pediatric teaching hospital of the University of Minnesota. UMMC along with seven of Fairview's other hospitals in the Metro Area. Fairview also has two hospitals located in northern Minnesota. Fairview operates over 80 primary and specialty care clinics, 37 retail and specialty pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, rehabilitation centers, a physician network, senior care housing and long- term care facilities, medical transportation and has ownership interest in six ambulatory care centers. Fairview, through its integrated care model, aims to deliver the benefits of academic medicine to more patients and families by expanding care, research, and education by offering access to a greater pool of physicians and patients, while seeking to reduce the total cost of care for patients. Fairview, the University of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota Physicians approved an agreement which became effective in late 2018 (the "M Health Fairview Agreement"). While the parties maintain their separate governance, the M Health Fairview Agreement further aligned operations across the clinical delivery system and enhances research and education by creating a joint clinical enterprise among the parties. The M Health Fairview Agreement brings together UMMC, Fairview's community hospitals and primary care clinics, and other services. All are part of a shared care delivery system that is led by a single structure that includes academic physician leadership. The goal of the joint clinical enterprise is to create a nationally-renowned academic health system. This care system operates under a single brand, M Health Fairview, which is inclusive of Fairview's ten hospitals and its clinics. Fairview owns and operates the following hospitals: UMMC, M Health Fairview Southdale Hospital, M Health Fairview Ridges Hospital, M Health Fairview Lakes Medical Center, M Health Fairview Northland Medical Center, Fairview University Medical Center - Mesabi ("Range"), Grand Itasca Clinic and Hospital, M Health Fairview St. John's Hospital, M Health Fairview Woodwinds Hospital and M Health Fairview Bethesda Long Term Acute Hospital. As of December 31, 2024, the Fairview System Hospitals had a total of 3,529 licensed

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 79.4%; rating input score 79
• Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
• Grant itemization coverage: 97.1%; rating input score 97; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 95%; rating input score 95; 47th 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: 8.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.33; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings