Visiting Nurse Health System
Legal name: Visiting Nurse Health System Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 580566250
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Phone
- 404-215-6000
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Home Health Care
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $46,213,065
- Expenses
- $48,019,176
- Assets
- $15,807,811
- Liabilities
- $7,679,427
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DOROTHY DAVIS (PRESIDENT AND CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DOROTHY DAVIS (PRESIDENT AND CEO): $433,711 total reported compensation
- ROGER HILES (CFO): $280,013 total reported compensation
- JACQUELINE RALPH BLAIR (CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER): $264,015 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 deliver a full care continuum of health care in the home.
What it reported doing in 2024
Visiting nurse health system, under the hospice atlanta brand, provides hospice and palliative care in the homes of patients with life-limiting illnesses who have elected to stop aggressive, curative treatments. The primary goals of hospice atlanta's care is to provide quality care, comfort, and dignity for patients during their final stage of life. In addition, we provide patients' families with the education, resources and services needed, along with emotional support during the dying process, and bereavement support after the death of their loved one. Our team of approximately 70 qualified professionals and 80 specially trained volunteers provide end-of-life care to over 640 patients annually. Hospice atlanta delivers this compassionate care in the comfort of the patients' home, the place they choose to receive care. Hospice atlanta offers a variety of emotional and spiritual bereavement support services, provided by trained bereavement coordinators and bereavement professionals, to include in-person counseling, virtual support visits, regularly scheduled grief support groups, educational resources, and the annual bereavement events - a workshop and family camp, camp s.t.a.r.s. Bereavement support is available for one year after the death of a loved one, and two years for those mourning the loss of a child.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 94% 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. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 70
- Transparency & Controls: 80
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.6%; rating input score 80
- Program expense ratio: 76.8%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -3.9%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -2.9% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -5.6% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 79.6% of revenue deployed · 76.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $36.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $434K · 17 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $4.1M reported
- Consistency: 33 of 34 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 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: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 19/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.