Sun Home Health Services Inc

What it reported doing in 2016

See schedule o i. General program service information sun home health services, inc. (sun) was established in 1967 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation to provide in-home patient care in 13 central Pennsylvania counties. The organization employs approximately 154 individuals. Sun's main office is located in northumberland pa, with 6 branch facilities throughout central Pennsylvania. Sun provides quality medical healthcare regardless of race, creed, sex, national origin, handicap, age or ability to pay. Program service activities that are available through sun include the following: home care: a full service home health agency that provides home care services to patients in central Pennsylvania. Skilled nursing, home health aide, medical social work, as well as physical, occupational and speech therapy services which are available 24 hours a day. The agency is both medicare and medicaid certified, and therefore may provide home care service to all payor categories. Hospice: a hospice program that provides care to the patient who is terminally ill with a life expectancy of 6 months or less. Base services include: skilled nursing, hospice aide, medical social work, spiritual care, and bereavement. In addition, physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy are utilized when the patient can benefit from those disciplines. Needs of the hospice patient family are also addressed by the hospice team, i.e. Care giver stress, depression, anxiety. Hospice services are provided to patients in central Pennsylvania and are available 24 hours a day. Patients are served in their place of residence - their home, skilled nursing facility or assisted living facility. The hospice program is both medicare and medicaid certified, and therefore may provide hospice services to all payor categories. Ii. Uncompensated care sun recognizes that its mission is to meet community health needs and to support the goals of geisinger health system in the communities where sun practices. In this regard, sun provides free or subsidized care below cost and supports various health activities and programs in support of the community. A. Medicare/medicaid in recognizing its mission to the community, sun provides care, below cost, to persons covered by governmental programs. To the extent reimbursement is below the cost of providing healthcare, sun is furthering its mission to the community. The unreimbursed value of medicare and/or medicaid is equal to the cost of providing services less the amount received as reimbursement under the program. The unreimbursed value of providing care to these patients was 4,169,344 during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017. B. Other uncompensated patient services in addition to the above, sun provides other patient services for which full payment is not received. The uncompensated cost of providing such patient services during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017 was 11,064. Iii. Community health, education, and outreach sun serves the community through gift-in-kind contributions. The public and various charitable organizations located throughout central Pennsylvania received approximately 22,792 gifts-in-kind during the fiscal year ended june 30, 2017. Iv. Volunteer services the volunteers of our programs are an active and vital part of the activities and mission of geisinger community health services. Eighty volunteers from local communities have contributed 252 hours toward the common purpose of servicing the healthcare of the community. The value of this contribution is given back to the community through lower costs, valued at 6,245. V. Community benefit summary medicare/medicaid shortfall 4,169,344 other uncompensated care 11,064 community health, education, and outreach 22,792 volunteer services (valued at 01/01/2017 6,245 statewide average weekly wage) total 4,209,445 vi. Operational changes during fiscal year 2017, sun merged with geisinger community health services effective june 25, 2017.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 92.4%; rating input score 92
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Pass
  • 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: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 50%; rating input score 50; 8th 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: -86.7%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 0; 0th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
• Officer compensation ratio: 11%; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -12.4% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings