Piedmont Mountainside

Legal name: Piedmont Mountainside Hospital Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352228583
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Jasper, Georgia, US
Phone
706.692.2441
Rating
65
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$168,120,130
Expenses
$132,812,550
Assets
$125,296,728
Liabilities
$50,241,835

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • MS DENISE RAY (CEO/BOARD MEMBER/CHAIR)

Highest reported compensation

  • MR THOMAS ARNOLD (TREASURER/CFO PHC): $1,518,663 total reported compensation
  • DR LEIGH HAMBY (BOARD MEMBER): $1,462,792 total reported compensation
  • MS ELIZABETH LEDDY (SECRETARY/CLO PHC): $1,379,286 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 Piedmont purpose and promise

What it reported doing in 2024

Piedmont mountainside hospital ("pmh") is a 62-bed facility located in the city of jasper in pickens county, Georgia. Over 200 primary care and specialty physicians on the medical staff meet the professional clinical needs of children, adults, and seniors within the community, regardless of any individual's ability to pay for services. For the year ended june 30, 2025, the hospital had 4,836 in-patient admissions with a total of 19,195 days of in-patient hospitalization. Er visits totaled 34,969 and outpatient visits totaled 64,592. Surgical services were provided to 2,956 patients.

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 most filed governance safeguards are in place. The filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars and a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 52
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 63
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 7.3%; rating input score 7; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 57.1%; rating input score 57; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.94; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.4; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1.9% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 72.1% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $121.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.5M · 16 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 30 of 31 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 51 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: Grant itemization coverage scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 57/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 37/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 46/100.