Prairie Ridge Health

What it reported doing in 2024

Prairie ridge health, inc. (prh) is a Wisconsin nonprofit, nonstock corporation that is licensed as a 25-bed critical access hospital (cah). Prairie ridge health, inc. Provides inpatient, outpatient, and clinic medical services to patients. For the fiscal year ended 9/30/25, 788 acute admissions resulted in 2,389 inpatient days. In addition, there were 200 deliveries, 370 newborn days, and 119 inpatient surgeries. On the outpatient side, prh provides a multitude of services including emergency room, lab, radiology, rehabilitation, surgery, infusion therapy, and nutrition services. For the fiscal year ended 9/30/25, prh saw 18,237 patients in the emergency room and urgent care. 767 patients had outpatient surgery and 1,192 gastrointestinal procedures were performed.prh also operates four physician clinics located in columbus, beaver dam, sun prairie and marshall. Our experienced and caring providers specialize in orthopedics, general surgery, podiatry, ob/gyn, dermatology, psychiatry, rheumatology, allergy & immunology, family medicine, internal medicine and physical and occupational therapy and imaging services. For the fiscal year ended 9/30/25, there were 38,630 clinic visits, 9,598 therapy visits and 1,010 imaging scans.the hospital provides health care services to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than established rates. Since the hospital does not pursue collection of these amounts, they are not reported as patient service revenue. The estimated cost of providing these services was $470,000 for the year ended september 30, 2025, calculated by multiplying the ratio of cost to gross charges for the hospital by the gross uncompensated charges associated with providing charity care to its patients.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 79.1%; rating input score 79
• Program expense ratio: 81.3%; rating input score 81
• Fundraising efficiency: $0.45 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • 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: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 80%; rating input score 80; 28th 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: 3.7%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.56; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.22; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 7.4%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings