Southwell

Legal name: Tift Regional Health System Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
453072990
IRS 990 coverage
2018–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Tifton, GA, USA
Phone
2293536310
Rating
75
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Public Health Program (Includes General Health and Wellness Promotion Services)

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$579,183,538
Expenses
$527,933,796
Assets
$933,919,458
Liabilities
$268,029,189

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

Leadership & pay

24 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHRISTOPHER DORMAN (CEO & PRESID)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANTHONY BURKE MD (PHYSICIAN): $2,115,988 total reported compensation
  • GEORGE YARED MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,481,692 total reported compensation
  • EDWARD HELLMAN MD (PHYSICIAN): $1,349,175 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Support, Community & Extras Classes & Events TRMC and Southwell Medical Gift Shops. We offer a broad array of services within a single system to provide efficient care for the needs of you and your family. Popular Services Cancer Care. Tift Regional Medical Center (TRMC) provides cutting-edge robotic-assisted lung biopsies, advancing pulmonary medicine and critical care. Support for your mental and emotional well-being Stress, anxiety, depression, or simply feeling off can take a toll on our health and make everyday moments feel heavier. Psychiatry at Southwell Medical Clinic** offers compassionate, personalized care for your mental and emotional well-being. We take the time to understand your needs, talk through your options, and build an attainable path forward.

What it reported doing in 2024

Tift regional health system (trhs) is a growing, not-for-profit hospital system. Its main campus serves 12 counties in south central Georgia. Trhs offers more than 135 physicians with expertise in over 30 specialties. Trhs provides a wide range of care, including signature services in surgery, oncology, cardiovascular care, women's health, neurodiagnostics, geriatric psychiatric care, radiology and more. The main campus is tift regional medical center (trmc), a 181-bed regional referral hospital located in tifton at 901 east 18th street. Trmc's west campus, located in tifton at 2225 highway 41 north, is an outpatient facility which houses various diagnostic services and the region's largest multi-specialty practice. A 3rd campus of trmc is in adel, ga. Southwell medical is a 60-bed hospital (that is not separately licensed) including a 12-bed geriatric psychiatric unit. A 95-bed skilled nursing facility, southwell health & rehabilitation, also is located on the southwell medical campus.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 89% 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and assets have declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 78
  • Sustainability: 61
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 75.7%; rating input score 76
  • Program expense ratio: 80.5%; rating input score 80
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th 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: Scored; rating input score 0
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 62.5%; rating input score 62; 17th 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: 8.8%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.77; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.29; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 3%; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -0.5% per year; rating input score 0; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
  • Where the money goes: 75.7% of revenue deployed · 80.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $424.7M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $2.1M · 24 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $11.5M reported
  • Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 13 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 7 filing years from 2018 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 22 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 8 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 38/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 57/100.