PIH Health
Legal name: Pih Health Downey Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951903935
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Whittier, CA, US
- Phone
- (562) 698-0811
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,510,220
- Expenses
- $230,424,053
- Assets
- $242,369,730
- Liabilities
- $295,854,978
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
34 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JAMES WEST (SYSTEM PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JAMES WEST (SYSTEM PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,663,779 total reported compensation
- PEGGY CHULACK (SYSTEM CAO & ASST SECRETARY): $1,515,125 total reported compensation
- ROSALIO LOPEZ MD (SYSTEM CSO/CMO): $1,396,488 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide high-quality, compassionate healthcare to the communities we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other community benefit services: community health improvement services and community benefit operations, health professions education, subsidized health services, and cash and in-kind contributions are comprised of the following: community health improvement services and community benefit operations: community health improvement services is defined as community health improvement activities, which extend beyond patient care activities. These programs include: community education, community-based clinical services, a community helpline, a medication-assisted treatment program, health insurance enrollment assistance, and purchased services for at-risk patients. Community benefit operations is defined as costs associated with assigned staff and community health needs assessments, and community benefit strategy and operations. Snapshot of outcomes: * 11,556 community members were reached through a variety of community health improvement and community benefit operations activities. Health professions education: this category includes internship, externship, preceptorship, and mentoring programs (employees excluded), supporting the next generation of healthcare providers by educating and mentoring students in clinical, ancillary, and administrative settings. Pih health programs include the family medicine residency program and student education. Snapshot of outcomes: * 67 medical residents, nursing, and ancillary professions students were provided with mentorship, internship and training opportunities. Subsidized health services: subsidized health services are clinical programs, which are provided despite a financial loss so significant that negative margins remain after removing the effects of financial assistance, bad debt and medi-cal shortfalls. Nevertheless, the service is provided because it meets an identified community need and, if no longer offered, would either be unavailable in the area or fall to the responsibility of government or another nonprofit organization to provide. Pih health subsidized services include emergency department on-call physicians. Snapshot of outcomes: * some 3 individuals were served by subsidized health services. Cash & in-kind contributions: this category includes funds and in-kind services donated by pih health to community organizations or to the community-at-large for a community benefit purpose. These donations include cash donations to community organizations, hours contributed by staff to the community while on pih health work time, the cost of meeting space provided to community groups, and the donations of equipment, medications, supplies, and services. Snapshot of outcomes: * 100 individuals benefitted from donated staff time or meeting space. Total number of persons served by all other community benefit services categories: 11,726 for additional information, please refer to pih health's community benefit report at pihhealth.org/cbannualreport
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 88
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.1%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 88.2%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 94.7%; rating input score 95; 47th 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: -2.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.05; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.22; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 90.1% of revenue deployed · 88.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 19 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $203.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 34 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $6.9M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 21 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 18/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.