Gundersen St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Legal name: Saint Elizabeth's Hospital of Wabasha
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 410693877
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Wabasha, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6515654531
- Rating
- 71
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $58,694,955
- Expenses
- $54,741,994
- Assets
- $35,787,093
- Liabilities
- $9,155,399
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SCOTT RATHGABER MD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- SCOTT RATHGABER MD (CEO): $1,397,550 total reported compensation
- JOHN CEELEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER): $782,368 total reported compensation
- AMANDA STERRY (CRNA - ST. ELIZABETH): $314,925 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together, we inspire your best life by relentlessly caring, learning and innovating.
What it reported doing in 2024
Saint elizabeth's hospital of wabasha, inc. Is a 163-bed hospital campus (25 hospital beds, 100 nursing home beds, 38 assisted living apartment beds) providing services without regard to patient race, creed, national origin, economic status, or ability to pay. During fiscal year 2025, saint elizabeth's hospital of wabasha, inc. Had patient days of service comprised of 449 acute inpatient days, 2,196 swing bed days, 125 observation days, 26,843 nh days, and 13,086 apartment days. The hospital also provided services for 15,636 clinic visits, 3,075 emergency room visits, 450 outpatient surgeries and 5,946 home health visits. See schedule h for a non-exhaustive list of community benefit programs and descriptions.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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 a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 48
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.8%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 86.5%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 97.7%; rating input score 98; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 15th 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: 6.7%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.65; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.3%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 26th 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: 80.8% of revenue deployed · 86.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $47.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.4M · 21 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $924K reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 31 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 25/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.