SSM Health

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
730657693
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
St Louis, MO, USA
Phone
3149947800
Rating
78
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,121,270,362
Expenses
$1,074,890,111
Assets
$453,704,540
Liabilities
$574,122,950

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

Leadership & pay

29 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • STEVEN SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO AT SSM HEALTH)
  • SHASTA MANUEL (SYSTEM VICE PRESIDENT-FINANCE)
  • STACY COLEMAN (PRESIDENT - ST. ANTHONY MIDWEST)
  • TAMARA POWELL (PRESIDENT - ST. ANTHONY OKC)

Highest reported compensation

  • STEVEN SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO AT SSM HEALTH): $3,484,633 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL HAHN II (PHYSICIAN): $2,626,556 total reported compensation
  • DOUGLAS LONG (SECRETARY, CLO AT SSM HEALTH): $2,287,921 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system providing high-quality, compassionate, and personalized care to communities across Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. When most people think of a pharmacy, they think about filling prescriptions. At SSM Health, pharmacy care goes further. Pharmacists take time to listen, solve problems, and support patients through every step of their care. Read This Post SSM Health care teams ready for the World Cup. Dr. Amanda Schovanec provides insights into a familiar women’s health concern that is often overlooked. Read This Post. SSM Health uses your location to provide you with relevant content, like doctor suggestions and local services. We will never share this information.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ssm health care of Oklahoma (ssmok) is a health care network that encompasses ssm health care facilities primarily in central Oklahoma. This includes ssm health st. Anthony hospital - Oklahoma city, ssm health bone & joint hospital at st. Anthony, ssm health st. Anthony hospital - midwest, and saints medical group, a multi-specialty medical group with locations geographically spread among the communities we serve. Ssmok is also the sole corporate member of ssm health st anthony hospital - shawnee in shawnee, Oklahoma. In addition to the main hospital campuses, the region also encompasses st anthony north, located in north Oklahoma city, and st anthony south, located in south Oklahoma city, st anthony healthplex east and st anthony healthplex south, in east and south Oklahoma city. These state-of-the-art campuses feature freestanding emergency rooms, ambulatory services and physicians.ssm health st. Anthony hospital - Oklahoma city is located in midtown and has been serving the health care needs of central Oklahoma and surrounding counties for 125 years. The journey began in 1898 when our founding sisters established st. Anthony hospital as the first hospital in the Oklahoma territory in two rented houses with 12 beds at 219 n.w. 4th street. Later, a new 25-bed, two story brick structure was dedicated on november 23, 1899, just outside the Oklahoma city limits. St. Anthony hospital remains in the same location today as a 773-bed tertiary care hospital. St. Anthony provides general, tertiary acute care servicesincluding cardiology, oncology, behavioral medicine, surgery, kidney transplantation, and a variety of other disciplines. St. Anthony has brought many "firsts" to health care in Oklahoma (first icu, first kidney transplant, first neurosurgical institute), including bringing the state's only cyberknife technology to oklahomans. Ssm health bone and joint hospital at st. Anthony is unique in that the hospital, physicians and other health care professionals are committed solely to orthopedic care. Staff offers a range of orthopedic services including hip and knee replacement, spine surgery, pain management, sports medicine, arthroscopic procedures, foot and ankle surgery, hand surgery, and robotic surgery. Recognized as one of the top orthopedic hospitals in the united states, bone and joint hospital at st. Anthony rates in the top 4% in patient satisfaction. Ssm health st. Anthony hospital - midwest is located in midwest city and serves the health care needs of eastern Oklahoma county and surrounding communities. We offer a wide range of services with physicians and staff dedicated to providing exceptional care. Our specialties include cardiology, orthopedics, surgery and behavioral health. Our commitment is to provide you with personal and compassionate care, so you can focus on healing. We strive to be the hospital you and your family trust for generations to come.through saints medical group, ssm health care of Oklahoma provides primary care physicians in family medicine, internal medicine and pediatrics. Specialty service lines include cardiology, dermatology, neurology, obstetrics/gynecology, orthopedics, pulmonary, thoracicsurgery, vascular surgery, diagnostic/medical testing services, and an occupational health network.ssmok also includes st. Anthony affiliate health network that encompasses 16 affiliate hospitals, including six tier one affiliate hospitals. Physician specialty clinics, mobile diagnostics and telehealth capabilities are offered to communities throughout the network, thus improving access to health care in the communities located some distance from a metropolitan area.

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 the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 80
  • Sustainability: 37
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 89.4%; rating input score 89
  • Fundraising efficiency: $463.11 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 93; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 21st 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: 94.5%; rating input score 94; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Scored; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • 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: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.42; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.27; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 86% of revenue deployed · 89.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $960.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3.5M · 29 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $12M reported
  • Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 47 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 124 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: Governance controls: 3 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 15/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.