UCHealth
Legal name: Poudre Valley Health Care Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841262971
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Phone
- 9702377000
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,032,333,065
- Expenses
- $810,942,564
- Assets
- $11,660,581,007
- Liabilities
- $8,011,617,535
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KEVIN UNGER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN UNGER (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $1,681,000 total reported compensation
- DIANA BREYER (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER): $642,181 total reported compensation
- JILLIAN BUSCH (PSYCHIATRIST): $611,513 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
At UCHealth, we do things differently: we strive to promote individual and community health and leave no question unanswered along the way—improving and optimizing health care through a network of hospitals, clinic locations, and providers across Colorado and beyond. University of Colorado Health and its associated facilities, like this one (together “UCHealth”) complies with applicable federal and state civil rights laws and does not exclude, deny benefits to, or otherwise discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, language, culture, ethnicity, age, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation, gender, veteran status, socioeconomic status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state, or local law in admission to, participation in, or receipt of the services and benefits under any of its programs and activities, including visitation privileges. UCHealth...
What it reported doing in 2024
Poudre valley health care inc. (pvhc) provides tertiary, acute, inpatient, outpatient as well as emergency care. Pvhc services communities in northern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska, and southeastern Wyoming. During fiscal year 2025, pvhc recorded 65,407 patient days, 13,318 inpatient admissions, 5,360 observation patients admissions, 711,219 outpatient visits, 77,088 emergency visits, 2,074 deliveries, 1,881 inpatient surgeries, and 7,559 outpatient surgeries.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 92% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 89% 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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 81
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.7%; rating input score 70
- Program expense ratio: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 45th 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: 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: 21.4%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 14.38; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.69; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 69.7% of revenue deployed · 89.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $723.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $33.2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 36 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 25 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 — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 23/100.