Murphy Medical Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 561844262
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Murphy, NC, USA
- Phone
- 8288378161
- Rating
- 60
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $83,088,545
- Expenses
- $83,028,596
- Assets
- $80,003,620
- Liabilities
- $64,819,373
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JIM COLEMAN (BOARD CHAIR, CEO OF ERLANGER)
- STEPHANIE BOYNTON (MARKET PRESIDENT & CEO OUTREACH)
Highest reported compensation
- JIM COLEMAN (BOARD CHAIR, CEO OF ERLANGER): $1,672,028 total reported compensation
- LYNN DEJACO (BOARD MEMBER, CFO OF ERLANGER): $1,177,309 total reported compensation
- TYLER WINKS (BOARD SECRETARY): $867,447 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We compassionately care for people.
What it reported doing in 2024
The mission of erlanger western carolina hospital, inc. Is to compassionately care for the residents of murphy, nc and surrounding communities. During fiscal year 6/30/25, the organization provided 3,945 inpatient days, 45,020 outpatient visits, 10,288 urgent care center visits, and responded to 16,370 emergency room visits, 3,013 wound care visits, and 69,811 other physician practice visits (excluding urgent/express care).
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: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Program expense ratio: 78.1%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th 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: Limited
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: 0.1%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.81; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.1%; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.4% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 78.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 4 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $64.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 11 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 4 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.
- 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 — 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: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 17/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 25/100.