SGMC Health

Legal name: South Georgia Medical Center Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
874714839
IRS 990 coverage
2023–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Valdosta, GA, United States
Phone
229-433-1040
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$577,855,117
Expenses
$533,365,833
Assets
$863,450,643
Liabilities
$379,004,055

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

Leadership & pay

26 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • RONALD DEAN (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMBERLY MACKEY (PHYSICIAN): $1,571,224 total reported compensation
  • JIANFENG WANG (PHYSICIAN): $1,213,733 total reported compensation
  • SAMUEL OFORI (PHYSICIAN): $1,137,501 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Statement “To improve the lives of all we serve.” Our Vision Statement. SGMC Health is fully accredited by DNV’s accreditation program, Integrated Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (NIAHO®) the highest mark of patient safety standards set forth by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. SGMC Health was established to care for the sick and injured, regardless of sex, race, creed, color, nationality, handicap, or disability. A self-supporting medical system, SGMC Health proudly provides care for the sick and injured with no local tax support. Because SGMC Health is publicly owned and operated, any earnings are reinvested back into the system’s facilities and services. This also allows SGMC Health to fund valuable outreach and education program.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sgmc is a not-for-profit medical system dedicated to being the leader in improving the health, wellness, and quality of life in the community. With 418 licensed beds and more than 650 providers and over 3,000 employees, sgmc, its campuses, and its affiliates provide a broad range of high- quality healthcare services. Sgmc is located in valdosta, Georgia, and serves 900,000 residents across a 25-county service area in south Georgia and north Florida. Sgmc was established to care for the sick and injured, regardless of sex, race, creed, color, nationality, handicap, or disability.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 92% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some related-organization disclosures are missing and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 80
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 87.6%; rating input score 88
  • Program expense ratio: 93.7%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • 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: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 7.7%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.62; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.44; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.2%; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 16.5% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 16.2% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 87.6% of revenue deployed · 93.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $499.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.6M · 26 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $50.4M reported
  • Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 19 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 5 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: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Whistleblower policy not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 56/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 41/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 52/100.