Mercy

Legal name: Mercy Hospital Ardmore

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
731500629
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Ardmore, OK, USA
Phone
3145796100
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$227,334,706
Expenses
$196,876,636
Assets
$99,099,403
Liabilities
$11,445,463

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

Leadership & pay

15 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • VOSS DARYLE (PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIES & BM)
  • WELSH RSM SR ROSEMARY (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CASA DE MISERICORDIA AND BM)

Highest reported compensation

  • PATEL VISHAL (HOSPITALIST): $798,530 total reported compensation
  • VOSS DARYLE (PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN OKLAHOMA COMMUNITIES & BM): $766,621 total reported compensation
  • LE BICH-VI (FORMER KEY EMPLOYEE): $668,738 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

As a faith-based health system, Mercy's mission is to provide compassionate, high-quality healthcare services to all, especially the poor and vulnerable, inspired by the healing ministry of Jesus Christ.

What it reported doing in 2024

Mercy hospital ardmore provides quality medical health care regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay by offering essential health services to its community. In active pursuit of this mission, mercy hospital ardmore provides a wide variety of services in their 190 bed facility and in fy25, had 189,046 total cases. Mercy hospital ardmore has a team of expert doctors, nurses and technicians that blend compassionate care with the latest, most advanced diagnostic and treatment resources in providing emergency care. Mercy hospital ardmore's emergency department is ready 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year with fast, experienced and professional care. In fy25, mercy hospital ardmore had 65,316 cases for this service line.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 70
  • Accountability: 76
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 74.3%; rating input score 74
  • Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 86.4%; rating input score 86; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th 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: 13.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 74.3% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $168.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $799K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11M reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 86 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.