Pih Health Good Samaritan Hospital
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 951656366
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 2139772121
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $360,502,530
- Expenses
- $429,946,057
- Assets
- $685,780,667
- Liabilities
- $344,389,192
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
32 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
We provide high-quality healthcare, without discrimination, and contribute to the health and well-being of our communities in an ethical, safe and fiscally prudent manner, in recognition of our charitable purpose.
What it reported doing in 2024
Other community benefit services: community health improvement services and community benefit operations, health professions education, subsidized services, research, and cash and in-kind contributions for community benefit are comprised of the following: community health improvement services: defined as community health improvement activities, which extend beyond patient care activities. This category includes community health education, community social service helpline, medication-assisted treatment program, medi-cal eligibility workers and transportation services. Snapshot of outcomes: * 29,040 community members were reached through a variety of community health improvement 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. Snapshot of outcomes: * 77 medical residents, nursing and ancillary professions students were provided with mentorship, internship and training opportunities. Subsidized health services: subsidized 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 good samaritan hospital subsidized emergency department operations. Snapshot of outcomes: * $2,541,622 in expenses were incurred in subsidized services in fiscal year 2024-2025 research: research that may be reported as community benefit includes clinical and community health research as well as studies on healthcare delivery that are generalizable and shared with the public. Pih health good samaritan hospital has been offering clinical trials and research studies aimed at improving health. Snapshot of outcomes: * over $228,061 in expenses have been incurred in research in fiscal year 2024-2025 cash & in-kind contributions: this category includes funds and in-kind services donated by pih health good samaritan hospital to community organizations or to the community-at-large for a community benefit purpose. These donations include in-kind hours contributed by staff to the community organizations while on pih health work time, the cost of office and meeting space provided to community groups, and the donations of equipment, medications, supplies and services. Snapshot of outcomes: $42,450 in expenses have been incurred in the cash and in-kind contributions category in fiscal year 2024-2025. Total number of persons served by other community benefit services: 75,471 for additional information, please refer to pih health's community benefit report at pihhealth.org/cbaannualreport
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 92% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - 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: 96
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.1%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: $140.75 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -19.3%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.6; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.5; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.5%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.4% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $396.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 32 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $33.5M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.