Lehigh Valley Health Network

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222458317
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Allentown, PA, USA
Phone
1-888-402-5846
Rating
62
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Health Systems

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,564,771
Expenses
$3,367,422
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

40 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BRIAN A NESTER DO (PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE/EVP & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER)
  • ROBERT A BEGLIOMINI PHARMD MBA (PRESIDENT, JEFFERSON HEALTH - LEHIGH VALLEY)
  • DAVID B BURMEISTER DO MBA (CHIEF PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVE & PRESIDENT, LVPG)
  • AMY H NYBERG (PRESIDENT, AMBULATORY SUPPORT SERVICES)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRIAN A NESTER DO (PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE/EVP & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $5,806,649 total reported compensation
  • JOHN M PIERRO MBA (FORMER CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER): $4,128,317 total reported compensation
  • ANNETTE M WHITE ESQ (CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER): $2,355,853 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 heal, comfort, and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care services.

What it reported doing in 2024

Lehigh valley health network (lvhn) is the parent organization controlling and directing the activities of its subsidiaries. Lvhn accomplishes this through its board of trustees who approves and directs all significant financial, legal and organizational issues of lvhn and its subsidiaries. The lvhn board of trustees appoints the board members of each of lvhn subsidiaries. The subsidiary boards are responsible for quality control and other operational type issues.subsidiary organizations include hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare-related organizations.subsidary hospital organizations operate 14 hospital locations across Pennsylvania in allentown, bethlehem, dickson city, east stroudsburg, easton, hazleton, lehighton, pottsville, gilbertsville, and macungie. These subsidiary hospital organizations include lehigh valley hospital (lvh), lehigh valley hospital - schuylkill (lvh-s), lehigh valley hospital - hazleton (lvh-h), and lehigh valley hospital - pocono (lvh-p). Lehigh valley health network's physician practice subsidiary organization is lehigh valley physician group (lvpg).additional subsidiary organizations include hazleton health and wellness center, lehigh valley health network accountable care organization llc, lehigh valley health network emergency medical services, and lvhn realty holding company, inc.effective june 30, 2025, lehigh valley health network merged out-of-existence into jefferson health corporation, a related organization. All subsidiary organizations described above are now subsidiary organizations of jefferson health corporation, EIN #23-2290323.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% 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

SUPPORTED - Most voting board members are independent and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 48
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 46
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 27%; rating input score 27
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 82.4%; rating input score 82; 17th 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: 70.9%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 53.8%; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 27% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.8M · 40 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 110 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 27/100.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 0/100.