Mercy
Legal name: Mercy Hospital Fort Smith
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710240352
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Smith, AR, USA
- Phone
- 405-615-6674
- Rating
- 64
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $571,103,098
- Expenses
- $491,126,901
- Assets
- $445,417,700
- Liabilities
- $51,297,054
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
14 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GEHRIG RYAN (PRESIDENT, MERCY AR COMMUNITIES)
Highest reported compensation
- SOCK SHANNON (EVP, CSO & COO & BOARD MEMBER): $8,311,222 total reported compensation
- MOHART MD JOHN (EVP,COO-MERCY HEALTH&BOARD MEMBER): $2,319,329 total reported compensation
- CIARAMITA MD JEFFREY (PRES,SPEC SERV LINES-MERCY HEALTH): $1,924,208 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mercy is a Catholic health system dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable healthcare services to the communities we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mercy hospital fort smith 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 fort smith provides a wide variety of services in their 361 bed facility and in fy25, had 423,560 total cases.at mercy hospital fort smith, cancer care is about more than providing clinical treatments. Mercy hospital name also offers support services to help you maintain your physical, mental and emotional health. Mercy's cancer specialists care for almost every type of cancer and participate in clinical research to bring you the most advanced cancer treatment available. In fy25, mercy hospital fort smith had 21,152 cases and 3,139 patient days for this service line.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 80.9%; rating input score 81
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: 14%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.91; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.12; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.3%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.1% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 7.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 80.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $397.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $8.3M · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $82.3M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- 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: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 81 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.