Healtheast Medical Research Institute

What it reported doing in 2024

HealthEast Medical Research Institute operates medical clinics for the treatment of the sick and infirmed to enhance the accessibility, quality and cost efficiency of medical and health care services rendered to the community while also conducting medical research. The outpatient revenue of the medical clinics includes payments from the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The institute uses medical information collected from the treatment of patients to establish and expand a database to conduct various medical research activities relating to health care in conjunction with related hospitals for the benefit of the public. Accordingly, the treatment of patients is an essential and integral part of the research activity of the institute. HealthEast Medical Research Institute includes HealthEast Clinics' staff members that are dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate health care. Our clinic locations are in neighborhoods throughout the Twin Cities East Metro area. Our providers include board-certified doctors, certified nurse midwives and nurse practitioners. HealthEast Medical Institute Clinics offer a full range of services for patients of all ages. HealthEast Medical Research Institute is committed to the communities it serves and demonstrates the commitment by serving as a charitable health resource. In support of its mission of community service, HealthEast Medical Research Institute provides emergency and medically necessary nonemergency services to the community regardless of ability to pay. Charity care represents the clinical services provided where the clinic did not receive full or partial payment because the patients did not have the ability to pay. HealthEast Medical Research Institute is a not-for-profit organization contributing time and resources to serve the community's health care needs. The organization provides charity care & community benefits to the communities it serves. In addition to the charity care and community benefits, HealthEast Medical Research Institute wrote-off other medical services to bad debt in the amount of $3,992,595. HealthEast Medical Research Institute is part of Fairview Health Services. 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.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 94.2%; rating input score 94
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

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: -16.8%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.2; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 6.33; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 68; 68th 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 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings