Sentara
Legal name: Potomac Hospital Corporation of Prince William
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 540853898
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Virginia Beach, VA, USA
- Phone
- 7574557020
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $326,104,865
- Expenses
- $337,419,577
- Assets
- $190,163,181
- Liabilities
- $35,677,538
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEFF JOYNER (DIRECTOR/PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT A BROERMANN (TREASURER/SECRETARY): $3,456,699 total reported compensation
- TERRIE L EDWARDS (DIRECTOR (THROUGH 8/24)): $1,807,735 total reported compensation
- ERIC CONLEY (DIRECTOR (EFFECTIVE 8/24)): $1,554,199 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 improve health every day
What it reported doing in 2024
Sentara northern Virginia medical center ("snvmc") provides inpatient and outpatient medical services through the operation of a 183-bed tertiary and acute care hospital that serves the increasingly diverse community in prince william, southern fairfax, and northern stafford counties. The hospital provided 106,080 adjusted patient days of care during 2024 and offers a wide range of medical specialties, a highly qualified medical and clinical staff, and state-of-the-art technology required to uphold its mission. Snvmc also operates an off-site outpatient campus that offers 24-hour emergency care, doctors' offices, and quality diagnostic testing including advanced imaging and lab services. See schedule o for additional information.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 100% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 32
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 77.7%; rating input score 78
- Program expense ratio: 75.1%; rating input score 75
- 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: 99.6%; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 4th 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: -3.5%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.2%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 77.7% of revenue deployed · 75.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 3 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $253.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.5M · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $16.4M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 70 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 — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 15/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.