Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
474736887
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2016–2018
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2018
Location
Bunkie, LA, USA
Phone
3183466681
Rating
89
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Reported finances

Revenue
$190,742
Expenses
$191,278
Assets
$1,448

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

People named in this filing

  • DONALD HINES MD (Executive Dir.)
  • LINDA DEVILLE (Chairman)
  • EVALYN ARMAND (Secretary)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2018. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Taxpayer is operated exclusively for the purpose of promoting and facilitating the collaboration between rural physicians and rural hospitals and major medical teaching institutions and their faculty through an electronic health information exchange to enhance and make available quality healthcare to the rural citizens of the State of Louisiana.

What it reported doing in 2018

During 2018, the taxpayer received grant funding from Ochsner Clinic Foundation (Grantor) which allowed it to continue to provide telemedicine services to rural hospitals. The taxpayer was able to provide technical services to the rural hospitals and provide support for their limited IT staffs in order to continue telemedicine consults with aged equipment.The taxpayer also assisted Grantor in implementing a package of telestroke, telepsychiatry and tele-emergency department to the rural hospitals. These efforts enabled the rural hospitals to provide quality medical care comparable to their urban counterparts who have access to a variety of medical specialists not available in rural areas of Louisiana.These efforts also allowed patients in the remote areas to be examined and treated by renowned medical specialists from urban medical centers without the rural patients having to leave their localities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 100
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -0.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 75.3%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 25.3% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 20.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 49.9% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $191K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2016 to 2018
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.