Mary Lanning Healthcare

Legal name: The Mary Lanning Memorial Hospital Association

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
470378779
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Hastings, NE, USA
Phone
4024634521
Rating
86
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Hospital, General

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$222,836,008
Expenses
$224,698,683
Assets
$257,155,934
Liabilities
$84,600,270

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ERIC BARBER (PRESIDENT/CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • BRENT HOOD (PHYSICIAN): $1,910,816 total reported compensation
  • KALPESH GANATRA (PHYSICIAN): $868,535 total reported compensation
  • MEHMET COPUR (PHYSICIAN): $853,498 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Mary Lanning Healthcare provides comprehensive mental health treatment and a range of cancer and medical services through inpatient and outpatient care, with a mission achieved through trustworthy, compassionate, multidisciplinary care. Behavioral Services provides comprehensive mental health treatment and is located in an accredited regional hospital in Hastings, Nebraska, with access to medical services. We are committed to providing individualized, therapeutic and confidential treatment and education to individuals and families on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Our mission is achieved through the efforts of a trustworthy, compassionate and multidisciplinary staff within a creative and supportive environment. Referral/Crisis Line:.

What it reported doing in 2024

The mary lanning memorial hospital association d/b/a mary lanning healthcare (mlh), located in hastings, Nebraska, is a not-for-profit acute care hospital which provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency care, acute rehabilitation, psychiatric services and physician clinic services. Mary lanning healthcare provides healthcare services to the general public and operates routine service beds, icu beds totaling 24,148 patient days. Mlh had 194,046 outpatient visits and emergency room visits of 14,962 in 2024. Mlh also operates a home health program and a school of nursing. In addition, mlh operates fourteen physician clinics in central Nebraska, along with an outreach program to smaller hospitals in which together mlh sees approximately 30,000 patients per year. Mlh offers behavioral health services on an inpatient and outpatient basis, accounting for 5,203 inpatient days and approximately 14,613 outpatient visits.mlh provides several community programs as well. We list only three of them. Mlh provides a place for family members to stay at a minimal cost during treatment, at a cost of $188,225 in 2024. Mlh also has a pharmaceutical patient assistance program that assists those unable to pay for prescription medications to find alternative funding through pharmaceutical companies at a cost of $132,680. To provide these services, mlh absorbed over $34 million in costs during 2024. Over $28 million of that relates to care provided to medicare and medicaid patients with an additional $1.4m in care to the uninsured in the form of charity care.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 98% 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

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: 83
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 92
  • Sustainability: 35
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 93.6%; rating input score 94
  • Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Pass
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 32nd 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: -0.8%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.14; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.33; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.9% per year; rating input score 100; 56th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 93.6% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $208.2M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $1.9M · 14 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $15.7M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 33 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 11 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 44/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 53/100.