Lumina Hospice and Palliative Care

What it reported doing in 2025

Hospice: lumina hospice and palliative care is an independent, non-profit community resource providing responsive care for local residents nearing the end of life. Founded as benton hospice service in 1980, we are the recognized regional source for the continuum of end-of-life services in the mid-willamette valley. We built our reputation on a commitment to promote dignity, respect choices, ease suffering and honor the grieving process. Our team-based approach includes physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, physical therapists, bereavement specialists and trained volunteers, enhancing our ability to provide responsive, personalized care to patients and their families. Medical equipment, supplies and medication related to the terminal illness are all covered within hospice care. Hospice is for anyone with any life-limiting illness, including cancer, heart or lung disease, AIDS, alzheimer's, and other end-stage diseases. Care is available for people of all ages, including infants and children, and for persons of any race or ethnicity. U.s. Citizenship is not a requirement, nor is the ability to speak english. Medicare, medicaid, and most private insurance covers the cost of hospice for patients. Inability to pay will never prevent a patient from receiving the best care. Donations help cover charity care as well as many auxiliary services not required by medicare. Donor-supported programs include charity care, transitions, caregiver support, community grief support, we honor veterans, art and music treatments, volunteer servies, and care for patients' pets (food, vet treatment, finding a new home for a pet that has lost it's owner, finding a temporary home for a pet when their owner needs to go to a facility for a short stay, gooming, and walking dogs.)palliative care: lumina offers two types of palliative care services described below. Palliative care case management: pallitative care case management focuses on improving the patient's quality of life and comfort when they face a serious illness or complicated medical decision. It is a medical program for individuals who are not under hospice care but are living with serious or chronic illness. Our interdisciplinary palliative care team works with the patient and their provider(s) to help relieve pain and ease other uncomfortable symptoms during the course of a patient's primary care, including curative care. Palliative care consults: palliative care consults provide clinical guidance for patients to assist with symptom management and advance care planning. Palliative care consults are provided by board certified palliative care physicians and nurse practitioners to patients in the comfort of their own residence.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.9%; rating input score 78
• Program expense ratio: 67.4%; rating input score 67
• Fundraising efficiency: $39.7 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • 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: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -16.6%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.31; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings