St Luke's Emergency & Transport Svcs Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
232179542
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Allentown, PA, USA
Phone
4845264000
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Ambulance, Emergency Medical Transport Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,888,564
Expenses
$16,297,166
Assets
$3,617,347
Liabilities
$49,861,342

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Highest reported compensation

  • Jessica M Burns (Network Director SLETS): $251,633 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

The mission of the organization is to provide compassionate, excellent quality and cost-effective healthcare to the residents of the communities we serve regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. The organization is an affiliate within st. Luke's university health network ("network"); a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery network. St. Luke's health network, inc. Is the tax-exempt parent entity of the network. The network's mission is to care for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, improve our communities' overall health, and educate our health care professionals.

What it reported doing in 2024

St. Luke's emergency and transport services, inc. ("ets"), is licensed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and provides 911 emergency transport, non-emergent transport and para-transport van services to the communities we serve. Operating out of four strategically located ambulance stations, st. Luke's ets is one of the largest hospital based ambulance services in Pennsylvania with over 30 years of experience in emergency medical services. St. Luke's ambulance service is ready 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year, to respond to calls for help. St. Luke's ets maintains licensure as a critical care/specialty care transportation, advanced life support and basic life support units with multijurisdictional radio interoperability. Our ets dispatching center monitors all ets operations which promotes efficient and effective deployment of resources to manage the 911 and non-emergent transportation requests. St luke's ets operations include 16 ambulances, in-house transport billing services and st. Luke's com our internal communications/dispatch center. St luke's ets provides primary advanced and basic life support ambulance services to the following municipalities: - pocono, jackson, and hamilton township's in monroe county - fountain hill and salisbury township in lehigh county - quakertown, richlandtown and milford in bucks county - knowlton township in New Jersey st. Luke's ets also provides mutual aid coverage and mci assistance to its surrounding agencies and municipalities.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 100% 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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 87
  • Transparency & Controls: 89
  • Accountability: 87
  • Sustainability: 13
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 76.9%; rating input score 77; 14th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -37.1%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 13.78; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0.2%; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 11.9% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 13 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $15.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $252K · 16 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 21 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Related organizations: 27 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 0/100.