Pocono Health System
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232336285
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2023
- Location
- Allentown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4842241876
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $0
- Expenses
- $20,924
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CORNELIO R CATENA (PRESIDENT/TRUSTEE)
Highest reported compensation
- THOMAS J MARCHOZZI MBA CPA (ASISTANT TREASURER): $1,608,085 total reported compensation
- JOHN M PIERRO MBA (TREASURER/TRUSTEE): $1,462,265 total reported compensation
- EDWARD C DOUGHERTY MBA (TRUSTEE): $1,104,277 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
What it reported doing in 2023
Pocono health system (phs) was formed exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes, particularly to support the charitable, scientific, and educational activities of lehigh valley hospital - pocono, to establish and maintain a health care system, and to carry on such educational, philanthropic, and scientific activities or support these activities. Phs manages five healthcare subsidiaries to collectively provide services to residents and visitors of monroe county and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.the four healthcare subsidiaries include: lehigh valley hospital-pocono (lvh-p) - the hospital organization is committed to the prevention and care of illness, promotion of wellness, and restoration of health.pocono ambulatory services, inc. (pas) - supports lvh-p by its investment in an ambulatory and outpatient surgical center, pocono ambulatory surgery center.pocono health foundation (phf) - provides fundraising and support to lvh-p. Phf assists its affiliated non-profit organizations in fulfilling their mission to meet the community's need for high quality healthcare.pocono vna/hospice (vna) - provides health and support services to people in the community. Some of the services include: skilled nursing, home health aides, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, dietary consulting, and social work services.pocono health system merged into lehigh valley hospital - pocono, effective 12/31/2023.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- No positive adjusted resources. The filing reports no positive adjusted operating resources.
- 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
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 75
- Transparency & Controls: 64
- Accountability: 73
- Sustainability: 1
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 53.3%; rating input score 53; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 676.1%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -23.8% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.5% per year; rating input score 0; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $21K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 16 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Related organizations: 41 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 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.