Trinitas Regional Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 223601678
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2021
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021
- Location
- Elizabeth, NJ, US
- Phone
- (908) 994-5000
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $345,999,545
- Expenses
- $325,550,567
- Assets
- $505,269,561
- Liabilities
- $242,045,907
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
33 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- GARY S HORAN (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- GLENN NACION (VICE PRESIDENT HUMAN RESOURCES)
- NADINE BRECHNER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CDO (UNTIL 8/21))
- JAMES MCCREATH (VICE PRESIDENT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH)
- NANCY DILIEGRO (VICE PRESIDENT CLINICAL SERVICES)
- MARY MCTIGUE (VICE PRESIDENT PATIENT CARE SERVICES)
Highest reported compensation
- GARY S HORAN (PRESIDENT & CEO): $1,742,414 total reported compensation
- KAREN LUMPP (SENIOR VP & CFO/ASST. TREASURER): $773,969 total reported compensation
- BARRY SIMPSON LEVINSON MD (PHYSICIAN): $586,718 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2021. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve through compassionate, high-quality, and accessible healthcare.
What it reported doing in 2021
Established in january 2000, following the consolidation of st. Elizabeth hospital and elizabeth general medical center, trinitas regional medical center is a full-service healthcare facility serving those in the community in need of healthcare, regardless of their ability to pay. Trinitas regional medical center is proud to offer state-of-the-art medicine backed by compassion and competence.utilizing a full spectrum of sophisticated inpatient, outpatient and long-term care services, trinitas regional medical center is proud to have forged a lifelong partnership with families, physicians and communities to provide the best care in a supportive and caring environment.trinitas regional medical center offers a number of centers of excellence and specialized major services, including behavioral health, bloodless medicine, cancer care, cardiology, diabetes management, maternal and child health, renal services, school of nursing, senior services, sleep disorders, women's services, wound healing and more. Trinitas regional medical center is also a catholic teaching hospital.in 2021, trinitas served nearly 10,000 inpatients, 52,000 emergency patients, 1,176 newborns and 301,000 outpatients. The trinitas family includes more than 2,700 employees, 500 physicians, and over 200 volunteers and auxilians.inpatient services: operating on two major campuses, trinitas has 554 beds, including a 124-bed long-term care center. Trinitas provides comprehensive medical/surgical services, emergency services, senior services, adult and child/adolescent psychiatric care, cardiac care, cancer services, renal services, maternal/child health services including a high-risk newborn nursery, a wound healing center, and a sleep disorders center.trinitas regional medical center's main service area consists primarily of the city of elizabeth, which is the fourth largest city in New Jersey. Its 130,000 residents represent a broad ethnic range - in fact, roughly 64% of the city's residents are of hispanic descent. Additional communities served by trinitas include linden, hillside, union, roselle, roselle park, rahway, cranford, clark and colonia. The medical center's primary and secondary service areas comprise over 650,000 individuals.trinitas is a teaching hospital, and serves as a major clinical site for the accredited three-year residency program of seton hall university school of graduate medical education internal medicine. A leader in nursing education, the trinitas school of nursing enrolls over 2,000 students in its full and part time programs of study. The school of nursing is part of a cooperative education program with union county college, and is currently the second largest nursing school in the nation.the inpatient capabilities of trinitas regional medical center are organized as follows: acute care 9 south nursing unit - 38 beds, mixed medical/surgical capability (geriatrics) 8 south nursing unit - 38 beds, medical/surgical with renal emphasis; telemetry monitoring available 7 south nursing unit - 38 beds, telemetry monitoring and step down 6 south nursing unit - 38 beds, medical/surgical with surgery emphasis 6 north nursing unit - 31 beds, overflow 4 north nursing unit - 23 beds, medical/surgical with oncology emphasis; telemetry monitoring available intensive care unit - 25 beds - medical/surgical/cardiac care please note that in addition to the above bed compliment, we temporarily added 18 medical/surgical beds and 12 intensive care beds due to the coronavirus pandemic. Operating rooms - 6 mixed ors, 1 cystoscopy and an ambulatory surgical center. Post anesthesia care unit (pacu) - 13 bayscommunity perinatal center - intermediate: 5 north - 20 beds - mother/baby well baby holding nursery - admitting nursery and holding - 20 bassinets intermediate care nursery - 7 bassinets - sick newborns, growing preemies labor/delivery - 7 labor/delivery/recovery rooms (ldrs), 2 operating rooms, 2 post anesthesia care unit (pacu) bedsrenal: 3 north nursing u
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 75% 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 83.8%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 87.7%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- 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: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- 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: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 5.9%; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.48; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 0.9% per year; rating input score 100; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 0.7% per year; rating input score 100; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 83.8% of revenue deployed · 87.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 16 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $285.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $1.7M · 33 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $16.7M reported
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2010 to 2021
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 18 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 6 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 55/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 35/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 43/100.