Renown Health

What it reported doing in 2024

See Schedule ORenown South Meadows Medical Center is a 115-bed hospital that offers the latest in medical and surgical care, intensive care, telemetry, a 24-hour emergency room, inpatient and outpatient surgical and lab services. Renown South Meadows Medical Center provides a wide range of healthcare services to the south Reno and Washoe Valley communities regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. Renown South Meadows Medical Center has approximately 580 physicians on its medical staff and extends admitting privileges to all eligible and qualified physicians.Since it opened as an acute care hospital in 2002, Renown South Meadows Medical Center has tripled its bed capacity by expanding the intensive care, surgical and telemetry units. Renown South Meadows Medical Center is also the local home of endoscopic ultrasound. This technology, applied with skillful hands, has helped diagnose and treat digestive diseases in thousands of patients. Renown South Meadows Medical Center is ranked in the top 1 percent nationwide for quality care based on measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. They have the region's only certified pulmonary rehab and interventional pulmonary program, in addition to specializing in joint replacement and upper extremity procedures.Renown Rehabilitation Hospital is a 62-bed, inpatient rehabilitation environment, and the only CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities) accredited facility in the region, focusing on care that prepares patients to live as independently as possible after experiencing a disabling injury or illness. Renown Rehabilitation offers physical, occupational, speech, recreational and cognitive therapies, highly specialized Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation physicians board certified in Spinal Cord Injury Medicine and Traumatic Brain Injury as well as housing an interventional pain management program.Renown Rehabilitation Hospital has the highest concentration of Certified Rehabilitation Registered Nurses in Northern Nevada and is the only Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) in Northern Nevada, which is the highest accreditation an acute rehabilitation hospital can receive. Rehabilitation nurses provide comfort, therapy and education, promote health-conducive adjustments, support adaptive capabilities and promote achievable independence.Renown South Meadows Medical Center and Renown Rehabilitation Hospital further their not-for-profit status by providing quality healthcare for Renown's primary service area, Washoe County and the secondary service areas of northern Nevada and northern California. There is a long tradition and commitment to improve the care and the health of our community. In addition to our commitment to meet the healthcare needs of the region, we give back to communities by contributing funds, services, facilities and the time and expertise of employees. These benefits to the community flow from Renown Health as a whole and from the individual hospitals, facilities and departments that make up our health network.For the period ended December 31, 2024, Renown South Meadows Medical Center, along with its parent, Renown Health and its subsidiaries, provided approximately $196 million in benefit to the community (using community benefit numbers gathered by the Nevada Hospital Association using state-approved criteria to ensure consistency). For a full report on the benefit Renown Health provided to our community as well as our needs assessment and community benefit plan go to https://www.renown.org/about/community-commitment/.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 72.1%; rating input score 72
• Program expense ratio: 81.9%; rating input score 82
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • 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: 11.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.64; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 0.1% per year; rating input score 100; 7th percentile among comparable filings