SSM Health

Legal name: Ssm Health Care of Wisconsin Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
430688874
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Madison, WI, US
Phone
608-251-6100
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$770,222,978
Expenses
$666,681,797
Assets
$499,418,127
Liabilities
$71,106,919

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

Leadership & pay

36 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SUE ANDERSON (DIRECTOR, REGIONAL PRESIDENT)
  • STEVE SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO AT SSM HEALTH)
  • LAURA KAISER (FMR OFF, PRESIDENT/CEO AT SSM HEALTH)

Highest reported compensation

  • LAURA KAISER (FMR OFF, PRESIDENT/CEO AT SSM HEALTH): $7,886,813 total reported compensation
  • STEVE SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO AT SSM HEALTH): $3,484,633 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

To deliver compassionate, high-quality care and reveal God's healing presence.

What it reported doing in 2024

Ssm health care of Wisconsin provides health care services at three wholly-owned acute care hospitals, ssm health st. Mary's hospital - madison, ssm health st. Clare hospital - baraboo and ssm health st. Mary's hospital - janesville, as well as at two nursing homes ssm health st. Mary's care center in madison and ssm health st. Clare meadows care center in baraboo. Serving south central Wisconsin since 1912, ssm health st. Mary's hospital madison (st. Mary's madison hospital) is a 440-tertiary referral hospital offering inpatient and outpatient treatment and diagnostic services in primary care and nearly all specialties. St. Mary's madison hospital is an american college of surgeons-verified level ii trauma center, a joint commission-certified thrombectomy-capable stroke center, and has a level iii neonatal intensive care unit. St. Mary's hospital offers a full range of inpatient and outpatient treatment and diagnostic services using the latest medical advances. The campus includes an outpatient surgery center and an employee child care center. St. Mary's madison hospital is owner of a home health care organization and is affiliated with the ssm health st. Mary's care center (a skilled nursing facility) on madison's southwest side. Ssm health st. Clare hospital baraboo (st. Clare hospital) offers talented specialists in women's health, cancer care, orthopedics, pediatrics, general surgery, rehabilitation services, sleep disorders and many more medical services. St. Clare hospital's connection with ssm health dean medical group offers patients a seamless health care experience. St. Clare hospital is affiliated with ssm health st. Clare meadows care center which provides a variety of healthcare and living options for the elderly of the greater baraboo and sauk county area. The 100-bed medicare and medicaid skilled nursing facility provides 24-hour nursing care for temporary rehabilitation care or permanent care in an atmosphere that celebrates the needs of the individual.ssm health st. Mary's hospital - janesville (st. Mary's janesville hospital) operates a 50-bed hospital and an adjacent physicians' office complex. St. Mary's janesville hospital offers talented specialists in women's health, cancer care, orthopedics, pediatrics, general surgery, rehabilitation services, sleep disorder and many more medical services.

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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

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: 81
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 76.7%; rating input score 77
  • Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
  • Fundraising efficiency: $67.22 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th 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: 95.3%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 24th 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: 13.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.75; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.4%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.7% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
  • Where the money goes: 76.7% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $587.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $7.9M · 36 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $25.1M reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 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: 39 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 115 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.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.