St. Bernards Healthcare
Legal name: St Bernards Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 710290019
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Jonesboro, AR, US
- Phone
- 870.207.7300
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $686,409,464
- Expenses
- $629,905,160
- Assets
- $373,307,082
- Liabilities
- $99,260,572
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
23 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GUY PATTESON (PRESIDENT ADVISORY BOARD)
- CHRIS BARBER (PRESIDENT & CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- CHITHARANJAN DUVOOR (HOSPITALIST): $1,068,407 total reported compensation
- DR ISAM ABEL-KARIM (CHIEF OF STAFF): $1,066,643 total reported compensation
- CHRIS BARBER (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,001,859 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 provide Christ-like healing to the community through education, treatment and health services.
What it reported doing in 2024
Since 1900, st bernards has served as our community's trusted provider of comprehensive, compassionate healthcare. With our dedicated and experienced employees, advanced technology, and the largest medical staff in the region, st bernards is the medical center of choice. Today, as well as in the future, st bernards will continue to put patients and community needs first by focusing on quality, safety, cost control, service, and diversity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 98% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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
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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 69
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 73.8%; rating input score 74
- Program expense ratio: 80.3%; rating input score 80
- Fundraising efficiency: $2.71 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th 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: 99.7%; rating input score 100; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 8.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.59; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.27; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 7% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.6% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 73.8% of revenue deployed · 80.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $505.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.1M · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $18M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 40 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 35 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.