Vna of St Luke's - Home Healthhospice Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 240795497
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Allentown, PA, USA
- Phone
- 4845264000
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospices
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $40,364,292
- Expenses
- $43,788,347
- Assets
- $24,314,392
- Liabilities
- $11,965,917
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa A Giovanni MSN RN (President VNA)
Highest reported compensation
- Lisa A Giovanni MSN RN (President VNA): $489,769 total reported compensation
- Jared King (VP/TREASURER - Trustee): $458,299 total reported compensation
- Marlee Wilson (VP Patient Care - Home Health): $243,987 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 provide compassionate, excellent quality, cost effective home health care, hospice services and home-based parent/child programs. Our dedicated home health staff encourages and teaches patients to become independent and in control of their health and their lives. Our team of hospice professionals are dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and their family. The organization is an affiliate within st. Luke's university health network ("network"); a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery network. St. Luke's health network, inc. Is the tax-exempt parent entity of the network. The network's mission is to care for the sick and injured regardless of their ability to pay, improve our communities' overall health, and educate our health care professionals. Please refer to schedule o for the organization's community benefit statement.
What it reported doing in 2024
Expenses incurred in providing medically necessary home health, hospice and community health services to all individuals in a non-discriminatory manner regardless of race, color, creed, sex, national origin or ability to pay. For additional information, please refer to schedule o for the organizations community benefit statement.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 93% 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: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 93
- Sustainability: 22
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 93.5%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- 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: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 20th 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: -8.5%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.56; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.49; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.4%; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.6% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 93.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $40.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $490K · 16 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 27 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.