North Country Hospital

Legal name: North Country Health Services Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
222570334
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2019
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2019
Location
Newport, Vermont, USA
Phone
(802)334-7331
Rating
54
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health Treatment Facilities, Primarily Outpatient

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,349,483
Expenses
$1,170,557
Assets
$0
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • GREGORY WALKER MD (MED STAFF VICE PRESIDENT)
  • DWIGHT NALL (PRESIDENT & CEO)
  • STEPHEN PERLIN MD (MEDICAL STAFF PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • GREGORY WALKER MD (MED STAFF VICE PRESIDENT): $596,771 total reported compensation
  • JENNIFER LADD MD (TRUSTEE/PHYSICIAN): $485,206 total reported compensation
  • DWIGHT NALL (PRESIDENT & CEO): $419,214 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2019. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

North Country Hospital, its Board of Trustees, and its medical staff recognize and support the rights of patients.

What it reported doing in 2019

The organization provided skilled nursing health care for residents of a certified intermediate care facility. For fiscal year 2020, the organization had 1,168 private/commercial insurance patient days. See schedule o for additional information.

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

MIXED - 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: 66
  • Transparency & Controls: 60
  • Accountability: 32
  • Sustainability: 33
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.6%; rating input score 73
  • Program expense ratio: 77.3%; rating input score 77
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: Limited
  • 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: 13.3%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 34.6%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3.1% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.6% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 72.6% of revenue deployed · 77.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $904K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $597K · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2009 to 2019
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • Related organizations: 2 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.