Mayo Clinic Health System-waseca

What it reported doing in 2014

Patient care (schedule o): mayo clinic health system is a family of clinics, hospitals and health care facilities serving communities in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Georgia. As part of mayo clinic, the health system offers care designed for the whole body close to the patient's home, when they need it. A multidisciplinary team of experts has ready access to knowledge, resources, and expertise of mayo clinic and collaborates on providing exactly the care the patient needs. Mayo clinic health system sites employ approximately 1,000 physicians and 15,000 allied health staff. In addition, mayo clinic physicians from multiple specialties regularly see patients at health system facilities. Besides having health care facilities in nearly 70 communities, mayo clinic health system includes 19 owned hospitals, five owned nursing homes, physician service agreements with one additional hospital, and contract management agreements with two additional hospitals and one nursing home. Since its inception in 1992, mayo clinic health system has grown into one of the most successful regional health care systems in the united states. More than 600,000 unique patients account for more than 2.6 million visits annually in mayo clinic health system. It is also a national leader in quality and safety efforts. Mayo clinic health system - waseca (mchs-waseca) is a critical access hospital which is part of the mayo clinic health system. Patient services: in 2014, mchs-waseca admitted 260 patients and provided patient care in over 30,000 clinic visits. Mchs-waseca operates primary care clinics in waseca, waterville, and janesville.uncompensated care: mchs-waseca provides care to persons covered by governmental programs. Services are provided to both medicare and medicaid patients/residents at substantial discounts from standard fees. Mchs-waseca is designated as a critical access hospital and is reimbursed based on its cost of providing services for hospital medicare patients. Charity care is also provided for patients that are financially unable to pay for services provided. The cost of charity care provided in 2014 was approximately $184,000. The cost of uncompensated care in 2014 provided to low income patients through medicaid and other governmental programs was approximately $1,104,000. This amount includes the medicaid surcharge of $159,686 and $227,903 paid to minnesotacare (a program that provides health care for low income populations.)mchs-waseca provides charge-based discounts to uninsured patients. The total discounts given in 2014 were $35,000. Mchs-waseca leases space and provides support services to affiliated organizations to help further their exempt purpose of providing patient care.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 74.9%; rating input score 75
• Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
• 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: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • 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: 12.2%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.48; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 10.3%; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -1.2% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings