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Children's - St. Paul has been named a 2015 Top Hospital by the Leapfrog Group. While more than 1,600 hospitals reported safety and quality information to the Leapfrog Group, only 6 percent were recognized this year for their high marks for quality and efficiency. We're one of only 12 pediatric hospitals across the U. S. that has earned this honor and the only one recognized in the Upper Midwest. This is the eighth time that Children's (Minneapolis, St. Paul or both) has been recognized by the Leapfrog Group since 2006. For the ninth year, U. S. News & World Report has named Children's as one of America's Best Children's Hospitals, with our neonatology specialty program ranking 42nd in the nation for 2015-2016. This is the seventh time our neonatology program has been ranked as a leading program in the nation. We are Minnesota's largest provider of care to children with complex surgical conditions, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and extreme pre-maturity. In 2015, Children's cared for 14,678 inpatient admissions representing 100,813 patient days, performed 20,834 surgical cases, treated 96,206 emergency room visits and cared for 446,012 outpatient clinic visits, many of which provided to inner city Minneapolis and St. Paul residents. Children's continues to serve a diverse population with 84,443 family encounters for language interpretation in 64 different languages. Children's considers certain major programs as destination programs, which are sought out due to their high quality outcomes. These programs meet rigorous criteria for excellence, including outstanding use of evidence-based practices, clinical research, and advanced technologies. - Cardiovascular - Children's pediatric cardiovascular program is one of the largest in the region with some of the most impressive outcomes in the U.S. Team members care for thousands of the region's sickest children with heart conditions, including fetuses, newborns, infants, children, adolescents, and adult, long-term patients with pediatric cardiovascular conditions. - Neonatal Intensive Care - Children's specializes in caring for multiples, babies with congenital anomalies, very premature and very low birth weight babies, and infants born with other complex diagnoses. We offer exceptional tertiary and quaternary care for babies, with survival outcomes among the best in the world. Children's neonatal program is one of the nation's largest programs with 153 staffed beds and more than 37,000 patient days. Our neonatal team includes highly-trained and experienced professionals from a full spectrum of medical specialties. We have our Mother Baby Center at Abbott 2 Childrens - Minneapolis and in 2015 we opened our second and third Mother Baby Centers at Merry Hospital in Coon Rapids and United Hospital and Children's - St. Paul. |
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- Hematology/Oncology - The hematology/oncology program at Children's is the largest in the upper Midwest with treatment outcomes that consistently rank Children's as one of the top ten programs in the U.S. In our nationally unique model, your child's or teen's care is spearheaded and coordinated by a board-certified hematologist/oncologist, who leads a highly experienced team of multidisciplinary professionals. - Cystic Fibrosis - The Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Center at Children's of Minnesota diagnoses and treats children in all stages of CF. Our dedication to family-centered care and education helps children and their families learn to live with CF. Care at Children's for patients with CF ranks among the top 10 programs nationally in key outcomes measured by the National Cystic Fibrosis Registry. Children's provides a continuum of care through coordinated inpatient and outpatient services, from diagnosis through long-term follow-up. The Cystic Fibrosis Center of Children's provides state-of-the art comprehensive care for children with CF. - Diabetes/Endocrinology - The McNeely Pediatric Diabetes Center is the only diabetes center in the region to specialize in working solely with children and teens. The staff provides expert health care to help maintain a child's targeted blood sugar ranges. Most children seen in the diabetes center have Type 1 diabetes. A small but growing number have Type 2. In addition to diabetes, the clinic provides diagnostic services and treatment for children with disorders of growth, advanced or delayed sexual development, pituitary disorders, thyroid abnormalities, disorders of calcium balance, adrenal disorders, and hypoglycemia. The McNeely Pediatric Diabetes Center has received recognition for its diabetes education program from the American Diabetes Association, by meeting the association's high educational standards. - Children's provides other high quality programs such as Surgery. Children's surgery teams deliver next-generation care in an award-winning environment that is exclusively dedicated to pediatrics. Health professionals of many disciplines work together to provide children with the best possible surgery experience. Children's bodies are different than adults. For example, they often require specially-sized surgical equipment. They react differently to anesthesia and to pain. Their bodies respond differently to illness and treatment, in part because they are still growing. That's why children benefit from our highly accomplished, pediatric-specific surgery teams. At Children's, over 20,000 surgeries are performed each year on fetuses, newborns, children, adolescents, and young adults from throughout the Upper Midwest. Surgical treatment results rank Children's among the top hospitals in the U.S. in pediatric surgical care. Children's has some of the lowest rates in the U.S. of post-surgery complications and some of the highest rates of patient and family satisfaction. |
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Additional destination programs include Neurosciences, ENT and facial plastic surgery, and Trauma care. As a charitable organization, Children's Hospitals & Clinics of Minnesota also provides a broad spectrum of benefits to the communities we serve. These services and donations account for a measureable portion of the hospitals' costs and help to promote healthy lifestyles, community development, health education, and affordable access to care. Please see IRS Form 990, Schedule H for a summary of these community benefits. Form 990, Part III, Line 4b: We continue to participate in multiple prestigious national collaborations and clinical trials. We are also generating landmark investigator-initiated research, aimed at novel ways to deliver life-saving treatments, manage pain and symptoms and develop new methods for preventing or treating childhood diseases. Every day, Children's researchers express their commitment to building better outcomes for our children. These outcomes will have both immediate and lasting impact for children receiving state of the science care at our specialty centers. Children with cardiac disease, cancer, genetic and blood disorders, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and other life-impacting conditions all have benefited from research at Children's. The vision and strategic innovation of our research leaders have brought us to impressive milestones in the past year. We continue to take steps toward advancing our research and committed to thriving into the future with our children and families. |
| Form 990, Part VI, Line 4c: |
The rotations were performed in Children's Emergency Department, inpatient medical/surgical, PICU and neonatal inpatient care units, surgery and anesthesia, ENT surgery, urology, and subspecialty clinics. In addition, Children's offered 44 continuing medical education courses, and produced 60 peer reviewed publications. Cultivating medical leaders ensures that we continue our mission - championing the special health needs of children and their families. 2) Education and training of health care and other providers of services to children: i) The Midwest Regional Children's Advocacy Center at Children's is a leader in improving the care of abused and neglected children whose goal is to improve services for abused children in local communities throughout the region. The Center offers information, consultation, technical assistance, and training to physicians, nurses, and non-medical members of community child abuse teams, including law enforcement personnel, attorneys and child protection workers. ii) Recognized, as the nation's leader in palliative care education, Children's Institute for Palliative Care (CIPC) developed a model for a regional training and consultation center. CIPC develops and leads training seminars using recognized curriculum for pediatric palliative care, provides hospital-based consultation to children who are in need of hospice or palliative care while they are hospitalized, offers a regional 24/7 telephone consultation program providing education, support, and guidance to families and professional providers, and serves as a resource center for pediatric palliative care. iii) The Minnesota Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SID) Center is a statewide program that provides information, counseling, and support to anyone experiencing a sudden and unexpected infant death from any cause. The SID Center is the state's resource for information on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and SIDS risk reduction. The Center conducts training and educational programs for health care providers, child-care workers, and other professional and community groups. The Center also tracks and reports infant mortality trends in Minnesota and participates in local, state, and national initiatives to reduce the risk of sudden, unexpected infant death. The Minnesota SID Center collaborates with the Minnesota Department of Health, county public health nurses, and medical examiners in every county throughout Minnesota. |
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iv) The Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) Resource Center housed at Children's creates awareness regarding the special needs of children in emergency medical situations. EMSC educational programs are designed to train pre-hospital personnel, first responders, physicians, nurses, and school nurses in the unique needs of infants and children in emergency situations. The EMSC Resource Center also provides technical assistance, participates in statewide pediatric emergency/disaster preparedness planning, develops and disseminates pediatric emergency are guidelines, and conducts mortality reviews and research. Education and employment - Because disparities in child health are so closely associated with low educational attainment and poor job skills, Children's is engaged in several key community partnerships to improve educational success and earning potential among youth and adults. Examples include the Roosevelt High School and Cristo Rey Jesuit High School Health Careers Program that provides students interested in health care careers the opportunity to receive health care specific education and obtain internships with health care organizations, the Achieve Minneapolis/Step-up Summer Jobs Program that places youth in supervised summer internships at participating companies and organizations, and a partnership with Project for Pride in Living that recognizes that a healthy, sustainable community requires residents with well-paying jobs. Form 990, Part VI, Line 11a: Children's senior management reviews the draft Form 990 with the Audit and Compliance Committee of the governing body prior to filing of the Form. This review includes an overview of the Form and discussion related to key sections. Copies of the final Form 990 are made available to members of the Committee and all directors prior to the Form being filed. The Audit and Compliance Committee has been delegated the authority to oversee the completion and filing of the Form 990 by the full board, and the Committee reports the results of its review and approval to the full board at a regularly scheduled board meeting. Form 990, Part VI, Line 12c: Management of Children's ensure that conflict of interest disclosure forms are completed by all members of the governing body and board committees at least annually. Forms are completed at the beginning of the year, and directors and committee members are instructed to provide additional disclosures if necessary during the course of the year. The Governance Committee of the governing body, along with senior management (CEO and General Counsel) review all disclosures provided by governing board members. The results of this review and any concerns, limitations, etc., are reported by the Governance Committee to the full board. If conflicts are identified, the Governance Committee and management work to ensure that directors do not participate in discussion or voting on the affected matter. |
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Children's follows the requirements set forth in the IRS rebuttable presumption of reasonableness in determining compensation for the CEO and other officers and executive leaders of Children's. This function is performed by the Compensation Committee of the governing board, which is composed of only independent directors. The process includes review of comparability data, retention of an outside compensation consultant and contemporaneous substantiation of the deliberation and decision through detailed minutes of the Compensation Committee and full board meetings where executive compensation is considered. |
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Currently Children's does not have any joint ventures with a taxable entity that are mission related or joint ventures that are not mission related. Within the context of their investment portfolio, the organization has invested in a number of limited partnership opportunities. |
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Childrens makes financial statement information public through a summary of financial performance in its annual report. In addition, financial statements are provided publicly through Digital Assurance Certification, a dissemination agent, who therefore make this information publicly available. Children's governing documents and conflict of interest policy are not available to the public. |
| Form 990, Part XI, Line 9: |
Changes in Net Assets: RSVP Retirement plan-related changes 4,529,234 Change in value of interest rate swap valuation 681,485 Change in beneficial interest of net assets of Foundation (2,020,922) Other change (151) Total to Form 990, Part XI, Line 9 3,189,646 |
| FORM 990 PART IX LINE 11G |
DESCRIPTION:Medical Residents - Pediatrics TOTAL FEES:3727789 |
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DESCRIPTION:Consulting Fees TOTAL FEES:4262069 |
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DESCRIPTION:Data Processing TOTAL FEES:7446 |
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DESCRIPTION:Security TOTAL FEES:25093 |
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DESCRIPTION:Linen TOTAL FEES:1545262 |
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DESCRIPTION:Purchased Services TOTAL FEES:58969390 |
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DESCRIPTION:Stipends and Honorariums TOTAL FEES:226311 |
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DESCRIPTION:Leased Equipment TOTAL FEES:2209028 |
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DESCRIPTION:Maintenance/Service Contracts TOTAL FEES:2522823 |
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DESCRIPTION:Equipment Rapair & Maintenance TOTAL FEES:1619634 |
Attach to Form 990 or 990-EZ.