CHI Health

Legal name: Saint Elizabeth Regional Medical Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470379836
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Phone
4022198000
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$219,013,114
Expenses
$205,722,856
Assets
$511,188,722
Liabilities
$26,208,535

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

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/CENTRAL REGION PRESIDENT)
  • RICK THOMPSON MD (FORMER INTERIM PRESIDENT)
  • TYLER DEJONG (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • JOHN PETERSDORF (EX-OFFICIO BM/SYS SVP, OPERATIONAL FINANCE): $5,864,923 total reported compensation
  • TIM BRICKER (EX-OFFICIO BM/CENTRAL REGION PRESIDENT): $2,889,751 total reported compensation
  • RICK THOMPSON MD (FORMER INTERIM PRESIDENT): $1,890,552 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

CHI Health's mission is rooted in compassionate care and community benefit, as reflected in its mission, vision, and core values page.

What it reported doing in 2024

We are recognized for being one of the nation's top hospitals for quickest response times to heart attacks. Our cardiac procedure and surgery success rates exceed state and national averages. We are committed to offering the highest standards of care and expertise from skilled medical professionals specially trained to care for your heart. Our services include: diagnostic tests & proceduresour cardiac team performs the latest procedures for diagnosis and treatment of heart disease, including diagnostic and interventional cardiac catheterization, electrophysiology, non-invasive diagnostic studies and medical cardiac care.cardiac rehabilitationour cardiac rehabilitation program offers medically-monitored exercise and education tailored to your needs for recovery and prevention of future heart issues.preventionwe offer preventive programs including screening, lifestyle management and a smoking cessation program. We encourage you to reduce our risk of heart disease by developing a heart-healthy lifestyle.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 96% 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. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 73
  • Accountability: 70
  • Sustainability: 67
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 88.9%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 99.5%; rating input score 99; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 64.3%; rating input score 64; 18th 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: 6.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.48; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.05; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.6%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -2.3% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -2.8% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 2.2% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 88.9% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $189.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $5.9M · 27 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.4M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 338 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.