Penn State Health

Legal name: Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
851608328
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Official website data refreshed
Aug 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020
Location
Hershey, PA, USA
Phone
7175318477
Rating
63
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$189,072,730
Expenses
$163,209,917
Assets
$290,624,566
Liabilities
$373,455,153

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DEBORAH ADDO (DIRECTOR/CHAIR/PSH PRESIDENT & COO)
  • KYLE SNYDER (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
  • ROSS DARROW (VICE PRESIDENT, TREASURER)
  • STEPHEN MASSINI (PSH CEO - PART YEAR)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEPHEN MASSINI (PSH CEO - PART YEAR): $3,235,216 total reported compensation
  • DEBORAH ADDO (DIRECTOR/CHAIR/PSH PRESIDENT & COO): $1,705,106 total reported compensation
  • PAULA TINCH (DIRECTOR / PSH CFO & EVP - PART YEAR): $1,438,370 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Penn state health hampden medical center's mission is to continually improve the health and well-being of the people in Pennsylvania. The organization provides patients with excellent, compassionate and culturally responsive and equitable care; educates and trains healthcare professionals; and advances evidence-based medical innovation through research and discovery.

What it reported doing in 2024

Penn state health hampden medical center (pshhmc) is a 300,000-square-foot, three-story acute care community hospital located in hampden township. Hampden medical center provides access to world-class care for residents of cumberland, perry and york counties and surrounding areas. It works to continually improve the health and well-being of people in Pennsylvania by providing excellent, compassionate, culturally responsive and equitable care. The acute care medical center features 110 private, inpatient beds, provides 24/7 emergency care, complete medical and surgical care, specialty inpatient services, women's health, labor and delivery, and imaging and lab services using the latest diagnostic technologies. It features six operating rooms, four labor and delivery rooms, and a woman's clinic offering mammography services. As part of the penn state health system, hampden medical center provides patients with coordinated access to the world-class expertise of penn state health milton s. Hershey medical center and penn state health children's hospital in hershey. Hampden medical center also works closely with independent community providers, penn state health physicians and community practice providers to deliver the best care possible.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 61
  • Transparency & Controls: 64
  • Accountability: 62
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 65.3%; rating input score 65
  • Program expense ratio: 75.6%; rating input score 76
  • 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: 50%; rating input score 50; 13th 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: 13.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.78; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 31.4% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 50.4% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.4% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 65.3% of revenue deployed · 75.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $123.4M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3.2M · 24 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.4M reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 15 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: Independent voting board scored 50/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.