St Joseph Mercy Chelsea Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824757260
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Chelsea, MI, USA
- Phone
- 7345936000
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $229,988,373
- Expenses
- $221,681,437
- Assets
- $182,870,221
- Liabilities
- $37,434,493
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BENJAMIN MILES (PRESIDENT & CEO CHELSEA HOSPITAL)
Highest reported compensation
- ROBERT CASALOU (DIR;CHR THR 7/24;V CHR AT 8/24;PRES MI): $2,207,040 total reported compensation
- CREG CARPENTER MD (ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON): $1,321,235 total reported compensation
- ROBERT WILLIAMS MD (ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON): $1,193,344 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We, st. Joseph mercy chelsea and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. St. Joseph mercy chelsea is a member of trinity health - Michigan and trinity health.
What it reported doing in 2024
St. Joseph mercy chelsea (chelsea hospital) is a 103-bed, not-for-profit joint venture hospital, whose partners are trinity health - southeast Michigan, a member of national catholic health care system trinity health based in livonia, mich., and Michigan medicine (um), the academic medical center of the university of Michigan. Founded in 1970, chelsea hospital is nationally recognized for both quality of care and patient satisfaction by national ranking organization press ganey, and is accredited by the joint commission. Chelsea hospital employs more than 1,400 individuals with a medical staff of approximately 500 physicians. Key services include robust medical and surgical service lines, eight operating rooms, a 24-hour emergency department and senior emergency room, a state-of-the-art cancer center, a physical medicine and rehabilitation department, a comprehensive head pain treatment unit and behavioral health services. As a not-for-profit hospital, chelsea hospital reinvests its profits into the community through programs to serve the poor and uninsured, manage chronic conditions like diabetes, provide health education, and outreach to the elderly.please see schedule h and visit our website for additional information about our services, recognitions and awards: www.trinityhealthmichigan.org/location/chelsea-hospital
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% 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
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 a relatively small share of voting board members are independent.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 76
- Accountability: 65
- Sustainability: 52
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.3%; rating input score 89
- Program expense ratio: 93%; rating input score 93
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 55.6%; rating input score 56; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- 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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 3.6%; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.82; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.4%; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 89.3% of revenue deployed · 93% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $206.1M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.2M · 18 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.2M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 11 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 319 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: Independent voting board scored 56/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 51/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 33/100.