Catholic Health
Legal name: Kenmore Mercy Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160762843
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, United States
- Phone
- (716) 862-2401
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,427,892
- Expenses
- $214,597,744
- Assets
- $165,353,277
- Liabilities
- $132,319,922
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Joyce Markiewicz (President & CEO Administration CH)
- Walter Ludwig (President & CEO KMH)
- Martin Boryszak (Senior VP of Acute Care & President of MHB)
- Megan Aldrich (President of Sisters of Charity Hospital)
- Mark Sullivan (President CHS - FORMER)
Highest reported compensation
- Joyce Markiewicz (President & CEO Administration CH): $1,912,200 total reported compensation
- Mark Sullivan (President CHS - FORMER): $1,864,539 total reported compensation
- James Garvey (Executive VP, COO): $1,037,889 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We are called to reveal the healing love of Jesus to all. A mission driven organization is an organization that is true to its sacred-purpose and strategically focuses on the intentional weaving of the mission and values into the culture of the organization. Mission and Values differentiate and define the organization as both a healing environment for patients as well as a nurturing culture for the associates and affiliated physicians. Our mission is the driving force behind all that we are and all that we do at Catholic Health. Like Jesus, who reached out in love and compassion to the sick and suffering of his day, Catholic Health dedicates itself to delivering high-quality, compassionate, and affordable health services to all with special care gi.
What it reported doing in 2024
Outpatient Routine/Surgery Services: Emergency Visits (Net of Admits) = 30,860Referred Ambulatory Visits = 44,978Operating Room = 4,030Interventional Radiology = 470
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 45
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.2%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 84.5%; rating input score 84
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 78.6%; rating input score 79; 27th 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: 4.8%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.8; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 80.2% of revenue deployed · 84.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $181.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 35 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9M reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 17 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.