Montgomery County Emergency Service Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
231894907
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Norristown, PA, USA
Phone
6102796100
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Psychiatric Hospitals

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$16,808,337
Expenses
$18,271,494
Assets
$9,539,744
Liabilities
$1,856,359

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • WILLIAM MYERS (CEO)
  • CAROLINE ELLISON PHD (VICE PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)
  • MICHAEL KENNEDY (PRESIDENT & DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • WILLIAM MYERS (CEO): $457,365 total reported compensation
  • JORDAN SANTINA (STAFF PSYCHIATRIST): $457,227 total reported compensation
  • BYANKA MEACHAM (COO): $417,890 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Mces provides round-the-clock intensive and comprehensive behavioral health services, including an adult inpatient hospital, to all in need in the community. Mission: mces provides an array of clinically necessary emergency psychiatric and crisis intervention services to persons with a primary or emergent need for such services and who are appropriate for care through our programs.

What it reported doing in 2024

Inpatient Psychiatric Care: MCES provides acute inpatient psychiatric care to individuals determined to need a short stay of intensive 24-hour clinical care to attain stability and safety because of a severe mental health crisis or potentially life-threatening psychiatric emergency. Services are patient-centered and recovery-oriented and delivered by a multidisciplinary team that involves the patient and their family or support system as optimally as possible. Patients participate in daily psychoeducational and recreational groups. Patients engage with outpatient providers before discharge wherever possible. The inpatient program is state-licensed and accredited by The Joint Commission. MCES provides involuntary psychiatric hospitalizations to residents of Berks, Bucks, and Montgomery Counties and accepts voluntary admissions from all counties in South East Pennsylvania. The MCES inpatient program is recognized for its ability to address any behavioral health emergency including those involving forensic issues. MCES incorporates the recovery model and trauma-informed care in its care. - Highlight: MCES had over 1300 admissions of individuals with exacerbations of psychiatric disorders requiring inpatient treatment and stabilization. - Highlight: MCES provides internships for Occupational Therapy Assistants and practicums for Physician Assistants giving students the opportunity to work with persons with serious mental illness and learn about possible careers in that field. - Highlight: MCES also broadened its services to individuals with co-occurring psychiatric and addictive disorders by initiating the Ongoing Abstinence Recovery Schedule (O.A.R.S.) to help patients structure their first weeks home after discharge to deter return to substance use. - Highlight: A Certified Peer Specialist is a member of the Carol's Place Residential Program Staff. - Highlight: Continued extensive safety improvements to patient care areas by installing ligature resistant door handle and bath/shower fixtures to all areas accessed by patients.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% 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

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: 91
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 18
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93%; rating input score 93
  • Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 85
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1,663.3 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • 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; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -8.7%; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 14%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 0.8% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 93% of revenue deployed · 85.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $15.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $457K · 14 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.8M reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 7 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 11/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 17/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 59/100.