Saint Francis Health System
Legal name: Saint Francis Hospital Muskogee Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814322087
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Aug 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Muskogee, OK, US
- Phone
- 918-682-5501
- Rating
- 66
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $233,648,441
- Expenses
- $191,969,362
- Assets
- $317,872,623
- Liabilities
- $54,828,613
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CLIFF A ROBERTSON MD (PRESIDENT/CEO/DIRECTOR)
- BARRY L STEICHEN (VICE PRESIDENT/COO)
- MICHELE KEELING (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- CLIFF A ROBERTSON MD (PRESIDENT/CEO/DIRECTOR): $2,411,088 total reported compensation
- BARRY L STEICHEN (VICE PRESIDENT/COO): $1,554,280 total reported compensation
- DEBORAH D DAGE (TREASURER/CFO): $1,072,326 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Extending the presence and healing ministry of Christ in all we do.
What it reported doing in 2024
Saint francis hospital muskogee, inc. Is a member of saint francis health system, inc. Saint francis health system, inc. Is a catholic, not-for-profit health system whose mission is to extend the presence and healing ministry of christ in all we do. Saint francis hospital muskogee, inc.'s accomplishments include operating an acute care hospital where admitting physicians, who are primarily practitioners in the local area, provide inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care services to residents of muskogee and the surrounding areas. In fiscal year 2025, saint francis hospital muskogee, inc. Provided $3,489,095 of charity care (measured at established rates). U.s. News & world report named saint francis hospital muskogee as a high performer in three specialties: diabetes, copd, and kidney failure. (continued on schedule o.)
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 100% 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 most voting board members are independent. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 54
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 73
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68%; rating input score 68
- Program expense ratio: 82.8%; rating input score 83
- 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: 23.1%; rating input score 23; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.8%; rating input score 78; 26th 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: 17.8%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.17; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.4%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.2% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.8% per year; rating input score 100; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 68% of revenue deployed · 82.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $158.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.4M · 22 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $80.9M reported
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 23 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 — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.