White Mountain Regional Medical Center
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 860171900
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Springerville, Arizona, US
- Phone
- (928) 333-4368
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Hospital, General
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,778,526
- Expenses
- $25,841,781
- Assets
- $28,489,759
- Liabilities
- $11,076,563
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Wesley Babers (CEO)
- James Sielski DO (President)
- Mark Baca (Vice President thru Jan)
- Tony Raykovitz - Board Member (thru Jan then Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- James Heap MD (Family Medicine): $389,067 total reported compensation
- Wesley Babers (CEO): $223,906 total reported compensation
- Steve Hamblin (Physical Therapy): $187,701 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Empowering a Healthier Community.
What it reported doing in 2024
White Mountain Regional Medical Center (Hospital) is a 21-bed Critical Access Hospital located in Springerville, Arizona, and provides acute care inpatient, outpatient and emergency services to residents of the surrounding communities in the Springerville area.White Mountain Regional Medical Center will provide caring services and operate on a financially sound basis to ensure its continuing ability to meet the needs of patients and the communities it serves. Continued on Schedule O.The Board of Directors and leadership of White Mountain Regional Medical Center recognize the importance of healthcare as a service essential for the well-being of people in the region and as an important part of the community's economy. In July 2018, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) accepted our agreement to allow our existing clinic, located at 114 South Mountain Avenue, Springerville, AZ 85938, to participate as a rural health clinic (RHC) in the Medicare program under Title XVIII of the Social Security Act.As a community organization the facility plays a vital role in providing services essential to the quality of life for people in Apache County, Arizona and Catron County, New Mexico.The Hospital provides care to patients who meet certain criteria under its charity care policy without charge or at amounts less than established rates. Because the Hospital does not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care, they are not reported as revenue. The amount of charges foregone for services provided under the Hospital's charity care policy was approximately $98,000 for the year ended December 31, 2024. Total direct and indirect costs related to these foregone charges was approximately $35,000 as of December 31, 2024, based on an average ratio of cost to gross charges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Other-operating. 96% of the money available for current operations came from other operating 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 66
- Transparency & Controls: 66
- Accountability: 78
- Sustainability: 53
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 71%; rating input score 71
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 71.4%; rating input score 71; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: 10.2%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.1; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.39; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.2%; rating input score 41; 41st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4.3% per year; rating input score 100; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.4% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 7 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 3 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 71% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 7 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $20.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $389K · 18 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $9.6M reported
- Consistency: 36 of 36 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes executive pay
- Filing history: 13 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 8 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 41/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.