Prime Healthcare

Legal name: Prime Healthcare Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
208065139
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Ontario, CA, United States
Phone
909-235-4400
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$926,277,913
Expenses
$844,486,318
Assets
$2,140,832,821
Liabilities
$1,238,840,832

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

63 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KAVITHA BHATIA MD (PRESIDENT & CHAIRMAN)
  • STEPHANIE D CONN (CEO - CRMC (END 6/24))
  • MICHAEL R SOUZA (CEO - LMC)
  • MICHAEL MOTTE (CEO - LOWER BUCKS HOSPITAL)
  • GAIL F AVIADO (CEO - MHMC)
  • JONATHAN S GILL (CEO - PRMC)

Highest reported compensation

  • RAHIM KHAN (PHYSICIAN - RVP): $697,986 total reported compensation
  • AHMED NADEEM (PHYSICIAN - LMC): $696,219 total reported compensation
  • JAMES SHAER (PHYSICIAN - RVP): $651,901 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

To provide compassionate care and clinical excellence to all patients as we create hospitals that improve healthcare in every community we serve. Our Mission To save and improve hospitals so that they can deliver compassionate, quality care to patients and better healthcare for communities. Prime Hospital’s Mission.

What it reported doing in 2024

Prime healthcare foundation, inc. Operates a total of 27 entities, 10 of which are hospitals, all classified as disregarded entities for federal tax purposes. These hospitals and entities include bucks county insurance captive, coshocton regional medical center, encino hospital medical center, glendora community hospital, huntington beach hospital, la palma intercommunity hospital, lake huron clinics, lake spivey ambulatory surgery care, landmark medical center (operating a 214-bed acute care hospital located in woonsocket, Rhode Island through prime healthcare foundation - landmark, llc), landmark physician office services, montclair hospital medical center, pampa regional medical center, prime healthcare real estate, llc, prime healthcare foundation - east liverpool, prime healthcare foundation - mission, prime healthcare foundation - oconee, prime healthcare foundation - salem, rehabilitation hospital of Rhode Island, river valley physicians, saint mary's reno foundation, sherman oaks hospital (operating a 153-bed acute care hospital located in sherman oaks, California through prime healthcare foundation - sherman oaks, llc), southern regional medical center (operating a 331-bed acute care hospital located in riverdale, Georgia through prime healthcare foundation - southern regional, llc), southern regional medical group, suburban community hospital, suburban community medical group, prime healthcare foundation - lower buck, llc, and prime healthcare foundation - roxborough, llc.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 86% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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 the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 78
  • Transparency & Controls: 61
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 64
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 83.6%; rating input score 84
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • 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: 80%; rating input score 80; 28th 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: 8.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.54; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.58; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.8%; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 83.6% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 5 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $789.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $698K · 63 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.4M reported
  • Consistency: 37 of 38 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 61 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 43 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.