Union Community Health Center & Urgent Care
Legal name: Union Community Health Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 134074478
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Bronx, NY, United States
- Phone
- 718-220-2020
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Treatment F31 Psychiatric, Mental Health Hospital
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $50,826,787
- Expenses
- $51,592,209
- Assets
- $36,600,985
- Liabilities
- $40,936,914
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
21 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOUGLAS L YORK (CEO)
- VANESSA SALCEDO (VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DOUGLAS L YORK (CEO): $737,604 total reported compensation
- JAE K AHN (CMO): $530,165 total reported compensation
- ANNE SPELLMAN (CNO/COO): $463,783 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To serve the community with informed, innovative, and outcome-oriented healthcare services designed and delivered to improve the health of Bronx residents. Union Community Health Center Quality Improvement initiatives align with the National Quality Strategy and support our consistent focus toward: • Better care for patients • Healthy communities. Speech and Language Therapy for Stroke patient** : Brain damage that can be caused after a stroke often leads to a variety of disabilities. **Stroke** patients can greatly benefit from **speech therapy exercises**. These can help them relearn how to make sounds, form words, and breathe properly during **speech interactions with others face to face or on the phone.** It involves understanding what words to say, how to say them, when to breathe, and how to form full sentences. Voice Therapy:** Personalized **Treatment** Plans That Help You...
What it reported doing in 2024
Union community health center, inc. (uchc) is a not-for-profit that operates as a federally qualified health center (fqhc) located in the bronx, ny. Uchc provided 177,805 patient visits for healthcare services during 2024. Union community health center provides comprehensive medical services to the residents of the community in accordance with its mission, vision, and values and according to federal and state laws and regulations. The services provided by union community health center are designed to meet the specific medical needs and priorities of the residents of the surrounding community and are organized to facilitate access to both general medical and specialty healthcare services regardless of the individual's ability to pay for such services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 91% 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.
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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 79
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 95%; rating input score 95
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 94
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 77th 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: -1.5%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.71; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.12; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.6%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.2% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.7% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 95% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $48.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $738K · 21 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.7M reported
- Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 9 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.