Sturgis Hospital

Legal name: Sturgis Hospital Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
352362438
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2017
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2017, Form 990-N 2008
Location
Sturgis, MI, US
Phone
(269) 651-7824
Rating
68
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$45,616,337
Expenses
$50,171,826
Assets
$25,244,411
Liabilities
$29,359,625

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

23 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JOHN MAYER (BOARD PRESIDENT)
  • P JOSEPH HAAS JR (BOARD VICE-PRESIDENT)
  • ROBERT LABARGE (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • YAZDI AMARIA (PHYSICIAN GENERAL SURGERY): $755,563 total reported compensation
  • ELIEZER MELENDEZ (PHYSICIAN PEDIATRICS): $613,552 total reported compensation
  • JAMES M GRANNELL (PHYSICIAN PRIMARY CARE): $553,897 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2017. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We strive to provide a wide range of outstanding medical solutions and serve as the leading source for primary care and specialty services.

What it reported doing in 2017

Sturgis hospital is an 84-bed licensed, acute care facility. Nearly 40 active medical staff members, available within the sturgis and surrounding communities, represent a wide variety of specialties including anesthesiology, family practice, general surgery, gynecology, internal medicine, obstetrics, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, pathology, pediatrics, podiatry, radiology, urology and vascular surgery. Additional specialties are offered through the hospital's courtesy, consulting and affiliate medical staff members. These services include cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, and pulmonary medicine. Medical/surgical care is offered on an inpatient and outpatient level. Both laser and laparoscopic procedures are performed in the hospital's three room surgical suite. A four-bed coronary/intensive care unit is also available for critical patients. The 12-bed obstetrical department offers labor/delivery/recovery/postpartum rooms for the expectant mom and her family. Emergency services are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, with full-time medical staff coverage. Cardiac rehabilitation and physical therapy programs as well as community education programs designed to help our community lead a healthier lifestyle, are also available. Sturgis hospital has a commitment to maintain state-of-the-art diagnostic technology, which includes angiography, 64-slice ct scanning, mammography, mobile mri, a sleep disorder laboratory and spect imaging and ultrasound.sturgis home health care--a top 500 agency in the nation--is a division of sturgis hospital. It works closely with physicians to provide quality home health care services following discharge from a hospital or for those with special medical needs that do not require hospitalization. These services include nursing assistance, AIDS, companions, physical, occupational, speech and language therapies, as well as a medical social worker. Hospice of sturgis provides support and care for persons in the last phases of an incurable disease. These services can be provided in a patient's home, nursing home or adult foster care setting. The hospice team includes physicians, nurses, therapists, aides, social workers, nutritionists, volunteers and clergy, as well as bereavement and support groups.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 99% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 65
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 14
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.4%; rating input score 81
  • Program expense ratio: 73.3%; rating input score 73
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd 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: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.5; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.16; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 7%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 1.7% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th 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: 81.4% of revenue deployed · 73.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $36.8M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $756K · 23 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.2M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 9 filing years from 2009 to 2017
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.