Wellstar
Legal name: West Georgia Medical Center Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 205497506
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Marietta, GA, USA
- Phone
- (770) 956-STAR (7827)
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Hospitals and Related Primary Medical Care Facilities
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $338,611,063
- Expenses
- $298,388,359
- Assets
- $160,165,370
- Liabilities
- $139,917,981
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
90 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO)
- REMINGTON FOSS (SVP HOSPITAL PRESIDENT WG)
- BRYCE SILLYMAN (VICE PRESIDENT COO WG (END 1/2)
- TRACY GYNTHER (VICE PRESIDENT CNO WG (END 9/2)
Highest reported compensation
- CANDICE SAUNDERS (PRESIDENT & CEO): $5,069,923 total reported compensation
- LEO REICHERT (EVP & GENERAL COUNSEL): $1,619,966 total reported compensation
- RICHARD CAPPS (EVP CHIEF INFO & DIGITAL OFFCR): $1,579,418 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 create and deliver high-quality healthcare services that improve the health and well-being of the individuals we serve.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 89% 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 49
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 65.1%; rating input score 65
- Program expense ratio: 81.7%; rating input score 82
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.24 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 84.6%; rating input score 85; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 6 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 91.9%; rating input score 92; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 58.8%; rating input score 59; 16th 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: 11.9%; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.54; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.87; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.5% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.1% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1.1% per year; rating input score 100; 11th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 2 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 65.1% of revenue deployed · 81.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 17 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $243.9M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $5.1M · 90 people listed · 6 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 30 of 32 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 26 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.
- Review — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 59/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 1/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 14/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 42/100.