Stc Healthcare Partners Llc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
843467958
IRS 990 coverage
2020–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Reading, PA, USA
Phone
4846284307
Rating
74
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Reported finances

Revenue
$411,895,395
Expenses
$394,860,273
Assets
$267,650,435
Liabilities
$345,648,562

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

Leadership & pay

21 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ROBERT BROOKS (PRES/CEO TER)
  • DONALD MUELLER (PRES/CEO TER)
  • JODI COOMBS (PRES/CEO 4/2)

Highest reported compensation

  • HARSH GREWAL MD (PHYSICIAN): $875,298 total reported compensation
  • MOHAMMED GHANAMAH MD (PHYSICIAN): $776,222 total reported compensation
  • MARTIN HERMAN MD (PHYSICIAN): $709,118 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Website: https://towerhealth.org/locations/st-christophers-hospital- children stc opco, llc (st. Christopher's hospital for children) provides a full range of high-quality healthcare services to all children and youth up to age 21 who seek our care or who are referred to us. We serve as the primary academic affiliate of drexel university for pediatric medicine academic and research activities, including the teaching of drexel university college of medicine (ducom) medical students and other health care professionals and training of graduate medical professionals (residents and fellows) by ducom faculty at st. Christopher's hospital for children facilities, and any other educational activities, training programs, or schools of instruction with other educational institutions related to rendering care to the sick and injured or the promotion of health. Stc pediatrics, llc works collectively with st. Christopher's hospital for children in its mission to provide consistently high quality he

What it reported doing in 2024

Other inpatient/outpatient/physician service accomplishments include but are not limited to: neonatal intensive care: st. Chris's neonatal intensive care unit department is a regional referral nicu which provides emergent, urgent and primary care services to high risk neonates in our community "24/7/365", regardless of ability to pay. Our level iv nicu provides care for some of the region's most critically ill newborns. We provide advanced treatments, such as lifesaving extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo), therapeutic hypothermia (total body cooling), comprehensive neurology care, and advanced surgeries. Our critical care transport team goes to all referring facilities to transport these babies to our nicu. Total patient days in fy2025 were 6,740. Orthopedics: a leader in pediatric care since 1875, st. Chris's orthopedics department consists of orthopedic specialists that assist children from birth to age 21. Services they treat are a range of pediatric and adolescent conditions, including, bone and joint infections, bone tumors (cancerous and noncancerous), congenital (inherited) problems in the limbs or spine, including limb deformities, dislocations, foot deformities, such as clubfoot, fractures & hip, disorders, neuromuscular problems, including cerebral palsy and myelomeningocele, spine problems, such as scoliosis and spondylolisthesis, and traumatic injuries. Total visits for fy2025 were 25,041.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some related-organization disclosures are missing.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 91
  • Sustainability: 41
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 80.9%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 84.3%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: 4.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.29; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.3%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 10.3% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 80.9% of revenue deployed · 84.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $332.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $875K · 21 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $12.1M reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 30 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2020 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
  • High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.