Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN)

What it reported doing in 2024

Lehigh valley hospital - schuylkill (lvh-s) is affiliated with lehigh valley health network (lvhn), who joined jefferson health in august of 2024. Through the combined efforts of its highly qualified medical staff, employees, and volunteers, offers a broad range of healthcare services to the residents of schuylkill county, pa.inpatient healthcare services are provided in maternity, pediatric, acute, critical care, acute inpatient rehabilitation unit, and behavioral health services. Lvh-s had over 5,800 acute admissions with 32,818 days of inpatient care. There were over 28,600 emergency department visits during the year. Lvh-s provides the only inpatient behavioral health services in the county. In fy25 we provided over 15,000 days of inpatient psychiatric care in our hospital. This service to a vulnerable and often under or uninsured population continues to meet a critical community need. On average 42 patients per day used our inpatient services. Additionally, we serve another vulnerable population with our drug and alcohol counseling center. This center has nearly 6,839 patient visits per year and is the only hospital-based program in schuylkill county to provide medical assisted therapy (mat) to patients. Lvh-s is the only hospital in the county that offers maternity services and delivered 640 babies in the fiscal year.lvh-s provides a wide array of diagnostic and treatment programs including a hospital-based home health department, physical, occupational, speech therapies, occupational medicine, as well as ct, mri, mammography, ultrasound, dexa scan, nuclear medicine, and other imaging technologies. With a high incidence of diabetes and vascular disease we serve our community with interventional radiology, wound care, and hyperbaric medicine. The industra-med program of the medical center provided occupational and industrial health services to over 200 of the region's employers. The outpatient departments of the hospital saw over 98,724 patient visits.the medical center provides community outreach and educational programs throughout the year as well as screenings, events, and health fair participation. Through a partnership with a local area on aging group (diakon), lvh-s provides free flu shots to the vulnerable senior citizen population. In june of 2025, our first class of 4 doctors from our rural family medicine program graduated. 2 residents accepted positions with lvpg and are working in schuylkill county. We currently have 12 full-time residents. The program is a three-year program providing residents training in all aspects of primary care. Through a community partnership with two local school districts, an ems agency, and lvh-s, we financially support a full-time (in school) emt program. Each graduate is eligible to sit for the national boards and become an emt immediately upon completion and graduation.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 99.6%; rating input score 100
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • 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: 81.2%; rating input score 81; 29th 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: -7.1%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.81; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.78; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 8.9% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 45th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings