WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital
Legal name: Wheeling Hospital Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 550357057
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2024
- Location
- Wheeling, WV, US
- Phone
- (304) 243-3000
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Community Health Systems
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $622,369,752
- Expenses
- $596,931,596
- Assets
- $291,502,158
- Liabilities
- $174,914,201
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
31 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Douglass Harrison (President/CEO)
- Bruce Archer (Vice President General Counsel)
- Anthony Martinelli (Former Assistant Vice President, VP COO, Reynolds Memorial Hospital)
Highest reported compensation
- Albert Wright (Board Member, Vice Chair): $2,726,278 total reported compensation
- Ivan Tarkin (Physician): $1,208,075 total reported compensation
- James Kelley (Physician): $1,069,041 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 improve the health of the communities we serve through high-quality, compassionate care, education, and research.
What it reported doing in 2024
Wheeling Hospital, Inc. had 13,269 inpatient discharges, 276,661 outpatient visits, and 43,395 emergency room visits in 2024. Community services included medical screening, diabetic education, cancer support, etc. and is provided free of charge. This includes the physician practice division, the Wheeling pediatrics division, and the womens health services division. See Schedule H.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program 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 the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 81.1%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 85.1%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.79 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 88.2%; rating input score 88; 2nd 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: 79.5%; rating input score 80; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 4.1%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.49; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.6; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 1.7%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 5.9% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.3% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0.2% per year; rating input score 100; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 10 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 81.1% of revenue deployed · 85.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $508M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $2.7M · 31 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $14.1M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 41 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 10 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: 21 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 45 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 41/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 28/100.
- 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.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.