Piedmont Healthcare
Legal name: University Health Services Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 581581103
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Augusta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 855.537.0506
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $689,636,408
- Expenses
- $617,494,823
- Assets
- $1,108,740,638
- Liabilities
- $283,624,133
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
36 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR LILY HENSON (CEO)
- MR JAMES R DAVIS (FORMER CEO & PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- MR KEVIN BROWN (BOARD MEMBER): $4,428,574 total reported compensation
- MR THOMAS ARNOLD (TREASURER/CFO PHC): $1,518,663 total reported compensation
- MS ELIZABETH LEDDY (SECRETARY/CLO PHC): $1,379,286 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Piedmont is empowering Georgians by transforming health care through safe, high-quality care close to home via an integrated healthcare system designed to always put patients first. Piedmont is empowering Georgians by transforming health care. We continue to fuel Georgia’s growth through safe, high-quality care close to home through an integrated healthcare system that provides a hassle-free, unified experience. We are a private, not-for-profit organization with more than 12,000 donors annually that for centuries has sought to make a positive difference in every life we touch in the communities we serve. Across our **2,171** physical locations, we care for more than **4.5** million patients and serve communities that comprise 85% of Georgia’s population. This includes **28** hospitals, **122** immediate care locations, **1,875** Piedmont Clinic physician practices and n.
What it reported doing in 2024
University health services, inc. (d/b/a piedmont augusta hospital) is an 812-bed acute-care facility located in the city of augusta in richmond county, Georgia. Primary care and specialty physicians of the medical staff meet the professional clinical needs of children, adults, and seniors within the augusta-richmond county area and 25 counties across two states, regardless of any indiviual's ability to pay for services. For the year ended june 30, 2025, the hospital had 22,613 in-patient admissions with a total of 108,612 days of in-patient hospitalization. Er visits totaled 68,728 and outpatient visits totaled 266,158. Surgical services were provided to 12,954 patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 91% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 77
- Transparency & Controls: 58
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 84.1%; rating input score 84
- Program expense ratio: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.4%; rating input score 91; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 77.3%; rating input score 77; 25th 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: 10.5%; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.8; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.26; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0.9%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.3% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 84.1% of revenue deployed · 92.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $569.6M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $4.4M · 36 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes foreign activity, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 56 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 114 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.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.