Essentia Health

What it reported doing in 2024

St. Mary's hospital of superior, dba essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior, is created and organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes. More specifically, essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior is created and organized to own, maintain, operate and conduct, directly or indirectly, and to assist and coordinate activities of facilities for health care, education, care for the aged and social services in accordance with the charitable works tradition of the roman catholic church.essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior has a critical access hospital with 25 licensed beds and four clinics serving douglas county. The hospital is a level iv trauma center and is accredited by the joint commission. It offers emergency care 24 hours a day and a transitional care unit. Essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior offers inpatient and outpatient services including imaging/radiology, lab, surgery, rehabilitation, heart and vascular, neurosciences, and cancer services.essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior employs approximately 320 full time equivalents. The hospital provided over 4,000 hospital patient days and nearly 62,000 outpatient visits during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025. The clinics had approximately 133,000 encounters during the same time period.during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, essentia health st. Mary's hospital-superior provided the following community benefits: $937,000 in charity care, $795,000 costs in excess of medicaid payments, $79,000 in community services, and $225,000 in health profession education.essentia health is the parent organization of an integrated health system that includes this organization and all entities that are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by essentia health (collectively, the "system or "essentia health").

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
• Program expense ratio: 83.1%; rating input score 83
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 73.8%; rating input score 74; 15th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 31st percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • 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: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 89; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.45; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.5%; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 9.3% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 69th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings