JC Health and Life
Legal name: Jefferson Community Health Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 470468078
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Fairbury, NE, US
- Phone
- 402-729-3351
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $41,236,944
- Expenses
- $37,283,996
- Assets
- $56,250,445
- Liabilities
- $19,355,523
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSS BOECKNER (PRESIDENT)
- STEVEN SNYDER (VICE PRESIDENT)
- TREVOR STEINMEYER (PRESIDENT (THRU 12/24))
- BILL WELCH (INTERIM CEO (THRU 01/25))
- HOLLY WOLFF (CEO)
- DR BURKE KLINE (CEO (THRU 08/24))
Highest reported compensation
- CRAIG SHUMARD (PHYSICIAN): $551,481 total reported compensation
- REBECCA STROKLUND (PHYSICIAN): $394,729 total reported compensation
- BRETT WERGIN (PHYSICIAN): $365,750 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide high-quality, compassionate healthcare services to the residents of Jefferson County and surrounding areas.
What it reported doing in 2024
Jefferson community health & life operates a 17 bed critical access acute care hospital. Jefferson community health & life also operates a fitness center, rural health clinics, and provides home health services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 95% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 81
- Sustainability: 56
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 88.9%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: $40.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 14th 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: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 9.6%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.51; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.34; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 9 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 88.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $33.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $551K · 19 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.9M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, 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: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.