Suburban Hospital
Legal name: Suburban Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 520610545
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4439975771
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $427,696,589
- Expenses
- $419,494,399
- Assets
- $716,597,237
- Liabilities
- $179,677,503
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
38 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LEIGHANN SIDONE DNP RN CENP (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- KEVIN W SOWERS MSN RN FAA (TRUSTEE, CORPORATE VICE CHAIR): $2,922,528 total reported compensation
- CAROLYN CARPENTER MHA FACHE (TRUSTEE, PRES NATIONAL CAP REGION): $1,128,612 total reported compensation
- PETER B MANCINO ESQ (ASSISTANT SECRETARY): $669,505 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Suburban hospital will deliver superior healthcare enhanced by technology, wellness education, research, and innovative partnerships with physicians, hospitals, the community, and the national institutes of health. Mission: improving health with skill and compassion.
What it reported doing in 2024
Medical patient services: suburban hospital provides acute and critical care for a complete range of medical diagnoses. The hospital is a joint commission certified primary stroke center featuring a dedicated nih stroke team, which provides rapid diagnosis and cutting-edge treatment of strokes. Suburban hospital also operates a cancer care program, which is accredited with commendation by the commission on cancer of the american college of surgeons. The comprehensive program services patients with all diagnoses and offers cutting-edge technology and personalized care. In 2025, suburban hospital admitted approximately 9,300 medical patients. Suburban is also home to both inpatient and outpatient behavioral health programs, as well as an addiction treatment center, offering day treatment programs to adolescents and adults. Suburban operates a full-service emergency department, treating more than 56,000 patients annually, which includes the shaw family pediatric emergency center exclusively for children and adolescents.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 97% 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: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 89
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 54
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 78.6%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 78.8%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 17th 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: 76.6%; rating input score 77; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 38th 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: 1.9%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.71; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.25; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.6%; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.4% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.6% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.2% per year; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 78.6% of revenue deployed · 78.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 20 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $330.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.9M · 38 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $7.2M reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 43 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.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 42/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 58/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.