CHI Health
Legal name: Good Samaritan Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470379755
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Phoenix, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 3088657900
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $228,518,871
- Expenses
- $193,691,977
- Assets
- $775,263,074
- Liabilities
- $42,660,686
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/ PRESIDENT & CEO CHI HEALTH)
- CURT COLEMAN (PRESIDENT, GSH)
Highest reported compensation
- JOHN PETERSDORF (EX-OFFICIO BM/SYS SVP OPERATIONAL FINANCE): $5,864,923 total reported compensation
- TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/ PRESIDENT & CEO CHI HEALTH): $2,889,751 total reported compensation
- CURT COLEMAN (PRESIDENT, GSH): $423,130 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
As part of CHI Health, we are guided by the mission of extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to all people, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
What it reported doing in 2024
Chi health good samaritan is verified by the american college of surgeons (acs) as a level ii trauma center. Verification by the acs demonstrates that good samaritan has met stringent criteria reflecting commitment, excellence and assurance of high quality care for all trauma patients.good samaritan is one of only a handful of hospitals in the nation that operates both a ground and air ambulance service as part of our trauma program and in support of the other medical specialties offered by our facility. Our ground ambulance service provides emergency advanced life support response to buffalo county and surrounding communities as well as long distance basic, advanced and critical care transportation of patients from one facility to another throughout Nebraska. Good samaritan aircare, our organization's air ambulance service, provides both inter-facility and scene response for critically ill and injured patients throughout central Nebraska and northern Kansas. Good samaritan is proud of its long-standing relationship with rodgers helicopter services, llc in providing our air ambulance operation to this region for more than three decades.in addition, trauma prevention efforts in kearney and surrounding communities help boost public awareness through many forums including bike rodeos, classes promoting responsible decision-making -- seat belt use and drinking and driving, car seat safety and numerous other programs.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 80
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 82.5%; rating input score 82
- Program expense ratio: 93.3%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- 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: 64.3%; rating input score 64; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.2%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 50th 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: 82.5% of revenue deployed · 93.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $180.7M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.9M · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 9 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: 8 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 331 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.