University of Maryland Saint Joseph Medical Center

Legal name: UMSJ Health System LLC

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
462097818
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2024
Official website data refreshed
Sep 2026
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
Location
Towson, MD, USA
Phone
410-337-1479
Rating
80
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$605,586,313
Expenses
$604,408,381
Assets
$422,873,862
Liabilities
$390,194,568

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

Leadership & pay

33 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • THOMAS B SMYTH MD (President and CEO)
  • BEN VANLANDINGHAM MD (Director, Medical Staff President (Ended 08/2024))
  • MICHAEL MARION (Director, Medical Staff President)

Highest reported compensation

  • MOHAN SUNTHA MD (Director): $3,940,617 total reported compensation
  • PAUL J TORTOLANI MD (Physician): $1,437,471 total reported compensation
  • MICHAEL DABBAH MD (Physician): $1,387,078 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

At University of Maryland Medical System, our values are the building blocks of the shared culture and common understanding that guide us in fulfilling our **MISSION** and **VISION** as we provide Marylanders **a better state of care. Our Values To advance our mission and vision, our organization and people are aligned around core values that define our work:. We earn the trust of patients, one another and our communities by behaving morally, ethically and with integrity. See how we live this value: Integrity. | Our Mission To purposefully advance the shared principles that are foundational to our work:.

What it reported doing in 2024

The organization's mission is guided by our catholic health care tradition of loving service and compassionate care. As an integral member of university of Maryland medical system (umms), we provide access to a full spectrum of health care services that improves the health of the communities we serve. Umsj health system is an integral part of the umms and provides quality integrated care to patients in the north baltimore area. As the sole member of um st. Joseph medical center (umsjmc), umsjhs supports the activities of umsjmc and its affiliates. Umsjhs is organized exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes. Its activities include providing healthcare treatment and care to persons who are acutely ill, operating a 24-hour emergency department which services all community patients without regard to their ability to pay. Umsjmc operates a hospital with 219 licensed beds. During its fiscal year ended june 30, 2025, the hospital engaged in the following activities that were in furtherance of its exempt purpose: provided inpatient services which included 15,103 inpatient admissions (including 1,861 births); provided outpatient services which included 40,053 emergency department visits; and 13,718 total inpatient and outpatient surgeries; and provided uncompensated care to indigents and medically underserved members of the community at cost of more than $5.6 m.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 100% 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: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 31
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Program expense ratio: 85.6%; rating input score 86
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th 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: 95.2%; rating input score 95; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Yes; rating input score 100

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 73.7%; rating input score 74; 23rd 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: 0.2%; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.7; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.92; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 1.9%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 31st percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • What they do: 8 programs and campaigns described on the official site
  • Where the money goes: 85.6% of revenue deployed · 85.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 14 of 19 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $517.6M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $3.9M · 33 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $17M reported
  • Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 15 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 67 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 32/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 10/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.