Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Elmbrook

What it reported doing in 2009

WHEATON FRANCISCAN SERVICES, INC. (WFSI) is a Catholic, not-for-profit health care and housing organization serving at sites in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Colorado. The System includes 18 hospital campuses, three transitional and extended-care facilities, two home health agencies, more than 3,500 physicians, 70 clinic sites with approximately 600 employed physicians, and approximately 2,800 units of assisted living and other housing, and the corporate services offices in Wheaton, Illinois, and Glendale, Wisconsin. Started more than 125 years ago and formally incorporated in 1983, WFSI is committed to living out the Mission and Values of its Sponsors, the Wheaton Franciscan Sisters, by providing excellent and compassionate health care and housing services to all, regardless of their ability to pay. WFSI was incorporated in 1983 to preserve and strengthen Judeo-Christian values, provide a framework for lay expertise and involvement, respond to an increasingly complex environment, ensure continuity of Franciscan sponsorship, and assure viability and excellence throughout the organization. As a not-for-profit organization, WFSI reinvests all net income into the communities it serves. Its multiple entities are dedicated to delivering quality health care to patients and residents through highly-trained staff, advanced technology, and superior and compassionate service; caring for each person's body, mind, and spirit with respect and dignity; working to improve the health of the communities; and ensuring health care access for everyone. WFSI is organized into market-based regional holding companies organized in the Southeast, Wisconsin region, the Fox Valley, Wisconsin region, as well as other regional holding companies conducting services in Illinois, Iowa, and Colorado. The System's housing and spiritual development services are organized under the holding company name of Franciscan Ministries, Inc. Since 2006, the "doing business as" name for WFSI's health care ministry has been Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (WFH). In 2010 Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare in Southeast Wisconsin was recognized as one of the nation's top 30 most efficient, best-performing health care networks by SDI, the nation's premier integrated health network evaluation system. The Southeast Wisconsin region was also named by Becker's Hospital Review as one of the "50 Integrated Delivery Systems to Know." Other national recognitions include being named one of the best performing 50 systems in Thompson Reuters' 100 Top Hospitals: Health Systems Quality/Efficiency Study in 2009. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare also received a 2009 VIP Award from McKesson Technology Solutions for its success in using information technology to enhance patient safety across nine hospital sites and more than 100 physician offices. The VIP Awards are presented annually to organizations that demonstrate vision, innovation and performance in the use of healthcare IT. Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare was one of five health care organizations selected by a panel of experts in the field of health care IT use to receive the award. Please see our full 2010 Annual Report online at: http://www.wfhealthcare.org/Wheaton/Documents/2010AnnualReport_001. pdf CORPORATE STRUCTURE: Parent Company: Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc. DBA Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Health care ministry: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare Housing ministry: Franciscan Ministries, Inc. Health Care Mission: Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare is committed to living out the healing ministry of Jesus by providing exceptional and compassionate health care service that promotes the dignity and well being of the people we serve. Health Care Vision: Our health ministries will be recognized in each community we serve for superior and compassionate patient service, clinical excellence, as the health care employer of choice, and the preferred partner of physicians. Housing Mission: Franciscan Ministries is committed to providing quality and afford

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: Limited
• Program expense ratio: Limited
• Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Missing
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Missing
  • 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: 28.6%; rating input score 29; 7th 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: 13.1%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.92; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 2.6%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: Limited
• Revenue growth: Limited
• Asset growth: Limited