Montgomery General Hospital

Legal name: Montgomery General Hospital Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
520646893
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Olney, MD, US
Phone
301-774-8666
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$212,509,676
Expenses
$215,628,160
Assets
$128,864,896
Liabilities
$21,927,453

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • EMILY BRITON (HOSPITAL PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • KENNETH SAMET (DIRECTOR): $6,562,774 total reported compensation
  • THOMAS SENKER (FORMER DIRECTOR/OFFICER): $1,632,736 total reported compensation
  • EMILY BRITON (HOSPITAL PRESIDENT/DIRECTOR): $989,550 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

To provide high-quality, compassionate healthcare services to the residents of Montgomery County and surrounding areas.

What it reported doing in 2024

See schedule omedstar montgomery's largest program is access to and the provision of acute hospital services to the communities of northeastern montgomery county, Maryland and the surrounding areas. In addition to the program service expenses listed above, medstar montgomery incurred $55.7m of management and general expenses in providing services to its communities. The acute care hospital offers a cardiac and vascular program, general surgery, orthopedics, cancer care, and obstetrics. With the addition of specialists from medstar georgetown university hospital and medstar Washington hospital center, medstar montgomery brings specialty care closer to its patients. The hospital's center for successful aging primary care continues to play a vital role in addressing the evolving needs of our community's growing senior and aging population. Achieving niche exemplar status (nurses improving care for healthsystem elders), medstar montgomery is dedicated to providing specialized care for seniors, placing a strong emphasis on enhancing the overall well-being of our older community members. Medstar montgomery has been designated as a magnet hospital for nursing excellence; granted a three-year accreditation by the intersocietal accreditation commision (iac) in echocardiography; granted the geriatric emergency department accreditation (geda) from the american college of emergency physicians; honored to receive the health care heroes award for advancements and innovation in healthcare for our innovate use of virtual care; recognized by the american heart association for stroke program with a bronze award; medstar montgomery has also been acknowledged as a metabolic and bariatric surgery accreditation and quality improvement program (mbsaqip).

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 67
  • Sustainability: 30
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.3%; rating input score 75
  • Program expense ratio: 74.2%; rating input score 74
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 97.3%; rating input score 97; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 42.9%; rating input score 43; 12th 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: -1.5%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.6; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.9%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
  • Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 74.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 14 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $160M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $6.6M · 24 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $5.9M reported
  • Consistency: 32 of 34 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 17 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 66 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.

  • Moderate — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 43/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 21/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 40/100.