Good Shepherd Community

What it reported doing in 2024

Good shepherd assisted living: good shepherd assisted living is a package of services delivered to tenants in their own apartments, when the need arises. Assisted living includes health care, supportive services and personalized assistance designed to help residents age in place and maintain their independence for as long as possible. The base package of assisted living services includes, 24-hour awake on-site supervision, emergency response system, weekly housekeeping and laundry services, assistance with setting up medical transportation, and life enrichment activities. Good shepherd assisted living allows tenants living in one of the four sauk rapids apartment buildings to continue to live in their apartment after the need for additional services arise. Tenants are not required to move to a separate assisted living building. The majority of the clients receive funding from the medical assistance program.shepherd court apartments: shepherd court apartments is a one-story 53 unit market rate apartment complex for the purpose of providing older and handicapped adults with housing facilities. Constructed in 1985, shepherd court apartments has six floor plans of one and two bedroom units, surrounding an open courtyard in the center of the building. It includes its own security system. Services are designed to meet tenants' physical, social and psychological needs and to promote their health, security, and happiness in longer living through a christian perspective. Shepherd court apartments is a part of a 30 acre senior living campus in sauk rapids, Minnesota which includes skilled nursing facility care, sub-acute/short term rehabilitation services, congregate dining, skilled home care services, assisted living services, memory care services, and independent living apartments. All the buildings are connected through enclosed links allowing tenants to freely move between buildings to meet friends or enjoy a walk inside avoiding harsh Minnesota winter conditions. If a tenant of shepherd court apartments need services beyond housing, such as meals, home care, or assisted living, those services are met by good shepherd lutheran home of sauk rapids, Minnesota staff in the tenant apartment. This allows the tenant to remain in their home for as long as possible. Independent tenants are welcomed to join any activity program offered to the tenants with assisted living services. Exercise program, pokeno, card clubs, bingo, movie night, quilting bee, outside music groups, outside speakers to discuss areas of concerns such as scams and medicare question & answer, reminiscing times, and red hat society are just a few of the activities that occur at shepherd court apartments. Shepherd court apartments also employs a social service coordinator to assist tenants with their psychosocial needs. Tenants can meet with the social service coordinator to discuss services that are needed, such as assistance with paying of bills, and various other services. The apartment manager is onsite 20 hours per week to assist tenants with services as well.good shepherd home health: good shepherd home health care provides health care and homemaking services to older adults in the comfort and privacy of their own home, within a 30-mile services area of the sauk rapids campus. Home health care helps individuals regain independence following an illness or injury, hospitalization or a nursing home stay through services such as skilled nursing, rehabilitation, iv therapy, medication teaching and set-up, and home health aide services. Outreach development: good shepherd outreach development provides management services to the divisions of the organization. Nutritional services to the apartment tenants are a service of the outreach services division. Some of the tenants of the four sauk rapids apartments prefer not to cook or prefer to eat in a more social setting. Several dining areas serve the culinary needs of the apartment tenants. Optional meal plans are available to

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
• Program expense ratio: 85.7%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $7.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: Pass
  • 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: 6.2%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.28; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.88; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.8%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -1.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings