Lady of the Sea General Hospital
Legal name: Lafourche Parish Hospital Service Dist 1 Dba Lady of the Sea General Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 726012041
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Cut Off, LA, United States
- Phone
- (985) 632-6401
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $74,460,182
- Expenses
- $35,733,031
- Assets
- $140,258,593
- Liabilities
- $20,678,398
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LLOYD GUIDRY JR (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DENNIS MORRIS (ER PHYSICIAN): $419,991 total reported compensation
- JAY VEGA (MD FAMILY PHSICIAN): $410,394 total reported compensation
- CHARLOTTE VONN (ER PHYSICIAN): $357,431 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Lady of the Sea General Hospital is a 15-bed critical access acute-care hospital serving the South Lafourche community, providing high-quality healthcare in a personalized manner with compassion and local services. With the support of the community, Lady of the Sea General Hospital will become the primary provider of wellness, education, and health services. _Our Values:_ PEOPLE -** Our people are the source of our strength and our customers are the focus of our mission. _Our Mission Statement:_ We exist to provide high quality health care in a personalized manner to those we serve. _Our Vision:_. Your browser does not support the video tag. Lady of the Sea History Lady of the Sea Hospital became a reality following the organization of the Lafourche Parish Hospital Service District No. 1 on February 3, 1953. The next three years were spent raising money and building our original...
What it reported doing in 2024
Lady of the sea general hospital exists to provide high quality healthcare in a personalized manner to those we serve
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 73
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 79
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.3%; rating input score 46
- Program expense ratio: 90.3%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 52%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.93; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.15; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 46.3% of revenue deployed · 90.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $32.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $420K · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $40.5M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 10 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 46/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.