SSM Health
Legal name: Ssm-sluh Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 474196634
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- St Louis, MO, USA
- Phone
- 3149947800
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $947,923,142
- Expenses
- $934,688,395
- Assets
- $708,139,134
- Liabilities
- $848,644,614
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JEREMY FOTHERINGHAM (CHAIR, PRESIDENT, REGIONAL PRESIDENT - ST. L)
- STEVEN SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO OF SSM HEALTH)
- STEVEN SCOTT (HOSPITAL PRESIDENT, PART YR)
- KIM HENRICHSEN (INTERIM HOSPITAL PRESIDENT, PART YR)
- KELLY BAUMER (VICE PRESIDENT - CLINICAL SERVICES)
Highest reported compensation
- STEVEN SMOOT (VICE PRESIDENT, COO OF SSM HEALTH): $3,484,633 total reported compensation
- DOUGLAS LONG (SECRETARY, CLO AT SSM HEALTH): $2,287,921 total reported compensation
- JEREMY FOTHERINGHAM (CHAIR, PRESIDENT, REGIONAL PRESIDENT - ST. L): $1,940,338 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God. With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health provides convenient access to high-quality community-based services as well as world-class academic medicine, clinical trials, and research studies. The organization’s footprint includes hospitals, physician offices, outpatient and virtual care services, senior care, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a fully transparent pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company, and an accountable care organization. As one of the largest employers in every community it serves, the organization’s more than 40,000 team members and more than 15,000 providers are dedicated to fulfilling SSM Health’s Mission.
What it reported doing in 2024
Ssm health saint louis university hospital, a level 1 time critical diagnosis hospital in stroke, trauma and stemi, is at the forefront of ground-breaking medical treatments, procedures, clinical trials and comprehensive patient care. Our commitment to research and innovation allows us to treat you and your family with the care you deserve. Ssm health saint louis university hospital has been an academic hospital in the st. Louis community for more than 80 years.we serve as the medical teaching hospital for saint louis university school of medicine, and exclusively staffed by the slucare physician group. This relationship between ssm health, slucare and saint louis university school of medicine provides advanced health care solutions that benefit our community.
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 97% 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: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 67
- Sustainability: 37
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 86%; rating input score 86
- Program expense ratio: 87.2%; rating input score 87
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: 99.9%; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 66.7%; rating input score 67; 19th 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: 1.4%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.76; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.2; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.8%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.1% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 86% of revenue deployed · 87.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 9 board members independent · 6 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $814.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $3.5M · 25 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $33.4M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 35 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 14 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 95 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: Operating margin scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.