North Country Healthcare
Legal name: North Country Healthcare Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 812225283
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Whitefield, NH, United States
- Phone
- 6033892205
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $39,201,841
- Expenses
- $39,000,446
- Assets
- $29,865,420
- Liabilities
- $19,738,520
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- THOMAS MEE (SYSTEM CEO)
- MATTHEW STREETER (SYSTEM CFO/INTERIM CEO WMC)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS MEE (SYSTEM CEO): $914,058 total reported compensation
- RICHARD KARDELL DO (DIRECTOR): $599,603 total reported compensation
- ELISABETH MOORE MD (DIRECTOR (TERM 01/25)): $490,448 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Mission of North Country Healthcare is to improve lives by assuring consistently excellent, integrated healthcare. The Northwoods Center for Continuing Education (NCCE) is an American Heart Association (AHA) Affiliated Cardiac Life Support Training Center located in northern New Hampshire. We are located at Weeks’ Whitefield Physician and Conference Center facility in Whitefield, NH. We serve the educational and training needs of area hospitals, EMS services, and other healthcare institutions in the northern regions of New Hampshire and Vermont. The Center offers AHA courses, RN development courses, NCH specific MOAB courses and LPN IV skills classes. Our courses are enhanced by the utilization of advanced computer-based medical simulation models. (Medical simulation is a training and feedback method in.
What it reported doing in 2024
The main focus of nch is management oversight and development of common administrative and clinical processes and practices between its healthcare affiliates. It is the intent to develop synergies and shared services to increase efficiency, lower cost and increase quality and patient satisfaction for the entire region.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% 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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Accountability: 96
- Sustainability: 29
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 93.8%; rating input score 94
- Program expense ratio: 94.6%; rating input score 95
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 26th 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: 0.5%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.66; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.6%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 31.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 31.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 37.3% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 93.8% of revenue deployed · 94.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $914K · 31 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 8 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.