WellSpan Health
Legal name: Gettysburg Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 231352220
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Lebanon, PA, US
- Phone
- 800-840-5905
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $355,388,746
- Expenses
- $290,590,313
- Assets
- $614,437,198
- Liabilities
- $50,711,935
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MICHAEL COGLIANO (VP & PRESIDENT - GETTYSBURG HOSPITAL)
- ROXANNA GAPSTUR PHD RN (PRESIDENT & CEO - WELLSPAN HEALTH)
Highest reported compensation
- ROXANNA GAPSTUR PHD RN (PRESIDENT & CEO - WELLSPAN HEALTH): $3,176,598 total reported compensation
- LAURA BUCZKOWSKI (EXECUTIVE VP & CFO - WELLSPAN HEALTH): $1,408,553 total reported compensation
- FARAAZ YOUSUF (FORMER EXECUTIVE VP & COO): $1,093,939 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Your generous gifts support WellSpan's mission
What it reported doing in 2024
Located in historic gettysburg, pa., wellspan gettysburg hospital has been serving the communities of adams county and northern Maryland for 100 years.wellspan gettysburg hospital began providing patient care in 1921 as the annie warner hospital. Today, it is a nationally recognized acute care community hospital providing patient-centered services and programs that feature highly skilled clinical staff, life-saving technology and modern facilities to address complex medical, surgical and emergency conditions.beyond the acute care hospital, it has grown to be a comprehensive health-care provider with family health centers across the region, a very special maternity center, heart center, home health services, preventive health education and screening programs, and 24-hour emergency services. Gettysburg hospital is this area's resource for meeting health and wellness needs. Gettysburg hospital had 5,550 admissions, 21,433 patient days, 5,998 surgical cases, 33,273 emergency department visits and 410 births during fiscal year 2025.during the fiscal year gettysburg hospital had the following achievements:- honored with the partner for change award as a part of the 2025 practice greenhealth environmental excellence awards. This recognition highlights wellspan health's long-term commitment to creating a greener environment for our patients and communities.see wellspan health - 2025 community benefit report located at https://www.wellspan.org/about-wellspan/improving-healthy-communities/community-benefit.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and most filed governance safeguards are in place. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 51
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 66
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 53.7%; rating input score 54
- Program expense ratio: 64.3%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 99.2%; rating input score 99; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 18.2%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.11; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 53.7% of revenue deployed · 64.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 18 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $187M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.2M · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $3.2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 53 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 54/100.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: CEO compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.