Endeavor Health

What it reported doing in 2024

Northwest Community Hospital (NCH) is part of Endeavor Health, an integrated, healthcare delivery system. Endeavor Health is a Chicagoland-based integrated health system driven by our mission to help everyone in our communities be their best. As Illinois' third-largest health system and third-largest medical group, we proudly serve an area of more than 4.1 million residents across seven northeast Illinois counties. NCH has served Chicago's northwest suburbs since 1959. NCH houses a Level III NICU, Level II Trauma Center and a dedicated pediatric emergency department. It is also a DNV-certified Comprehensive Stroke Center. In addition, the John M. Boler Center for Rehabilitation at NCH provides a comprehensive, 33-bed acute inpatient rehab unit with all private rooms. The center offers award winning, personalized care aimed at ensuring a safe and independent transition back to the community. The NCH campus is home to the Wellness Center, a premier health and fitness center and spa, as well as a full-service, retail pharmacy. During 2024, NCH total admissions were 22,228, and total inpatient days were 92,667. NCH has a proud and longstanding tradition of outreach to the medically underserved within its northwest suburban Chicago service area. NCH is dedicated to addressing the needs of not only its patients, but of everyone who lives and works in the northwest Chicago suburbs. NCH's Community Services Department utilizes the hospital's strengths alongside those of the wider Endeavor Health system and other well established community partners to identify unmet health needs of the community and to develop strategic initiatives to address them. Working collaboratively allows NCH to better understand and reach the most vulnerable populations, with the ultimate goal of improving the community's health status by ensuring everyone has access to care and by empowering individuals to make healthy life choices.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 84.6%; rating input score 85
• Program expense ratio: 86.6%; rating input score 87
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st 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: 81.5%; rating input score 81; 18th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 73.7%; rating input score 74; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
  • 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: Fail
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 2.4%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.84; rating input score 34; 34th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.68; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -1.6% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings