The Miriam Hospital
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.
- Income
- $755.8 million
- Spending
- $722.7 million
- Spent on programs
- 88%
- Reserves
- 4 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- fees for its services, 92%
- Employees
- 4,275
- Volunteers
- 278
- Highest pay
- $3.7 million, fmr. trustee
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
Good: 75 out of 100. Higher than 65% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Reserves
20 of 35Spendable reserves would cover 4.0 months of spending.
Debt
10 of 20It owes 37% of what it owns.
Living within its means
15 of 15Income exceeded spending by 4% of income.
Income trend
15 of 15Income rose 17% on the year before.
Spending floor
15 of 1588% of spending went to programs and raising each dollar of donations cost 0 cents.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
Strong: 100 out of 100. Higher than 53% of charities in its peer group (health care, over $100m).
Independent board
25 of 2514 of 18 voting board members are independent.
Conflict of interest policy
15 of 15Has a written conflict of interest policy.
Whistleblower policy
8 of 8Has a written whistleblower policy.
Record keeping policy
7 of 7Has a written policy on keeping and destroying records.
Board minutes
5 of 5Keeps minutes of board meetings.
Board sees the tax return
10 of 10Gave the board a copy of this return before filing it.
Pay set independently
5 of 5Sets its chief executive's pay through independent review and comparison.
Independent check of accounts
15 of 15Its accounts were audited by an independent accountant.
No reported misuse
10 of 10Reports no diversion of assets, excess benefits or loans to insiders.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $548.0 million spent. Patient Care:TMH offers expertise in cardiology, oncology, orthopedics, men's health, and minimally invasive surgery, and is home to the State's first Joint Commission- certified Stroke Center and robotic surgery program. Services and programs provided by TMH also include anesthesiology; general medicine; general surgery; psychiatry; emergency medicine; cardiovascular care; orthopedics; dermatology; nuclear cardiology; radiology; laboratory; renal dialysis; urology; gastroenterology; endocrinology; gynecology; nephrology; neurology; and ophthalmology. (Continued on Schedule O). TMH is licensed to operate 247 acute care beds by the Rhode Island Department of Health. Notable medical accomplishments of TMH include performance of Rhode Island's first lung operation, first kidney transplant, and first aortic balloon valvuloplasty (a procedure to clear blocked heart valves). In 2023, TMH discharged 17,580 inpatients, logged more than 70,000 visits in its Emergency Department, and performed 11,990 inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures. Services provided in 2024 represent 74,903 inpatient days and more than 142,000 clinic visits. TMH is staffed by 1,298 privileged physicians, approximately 92 full-time house staff (medical school graduates), and a nursing staff of 927. In total, TMH employs more than 3,500 people. TMH is a major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, providing clinical rotations for residents.TMH provides full charity care for individuals at or below twice the federal poverty level, with a sliding scale for individuals up to three times the poverty level, as set by the Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, a substantial discount consistent with Medicare program reimbursement is offered to all other uninsured patients. TMH determines the costs associated with providing charity care by aggregating the applicable direct and indirect costs, including compensation and benefits, supplies, and other operating expenses, based on data from its costing system. The total cost, excluding medical education and research, incurred by TMH to provide charity care amounted to $12,105,072 in fiscal 2024. Charges forgone, based on established rates, amounted to $32,083,084.TMH substantially subsidized various health services including the following programs: adult psychiatry, tuberculosis, and certain other specialty services at a net cost of $7,376,366 in fiscal year 2024. TMH also provides numerous other services to the community for which charges are not generated. These services include certain emergency services, community health screenings for cardiac health, prostate cancer and other diseases, smoking cessation, immunization and nutrition programs, diabetes education, community health training programs, patient advocacy, foreign language translation, physician referral services, and charitable contributions. The net cost of these services amounted to $296,001 in fiscal year 2024.TMH subsidizes the cost of treating patients who receive government assistance where reimbursement is below cost. Medicaid is a means-tested health insurance program, jointly funded by state and federal governments. States administer the program and set rules for eligibility, benefits, and provider payments within broad federal guidelines. The program provides health care coverage to low-income children and families, pregnant women, long-term unemployed adults, seniors, and persons with disabilities. Eligibility is determined by a variety of factors, which include income relative to the federal poverty line, age and immigration status, and assets.TMH offers expertise in total joint replacement, minimally invasive and robotic surgery, and bariatric surgery, among many other specialties.The Leonard and Adele R. Decof Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at TMH brings together world-renowned physicians and a team of specialists from TMH, Rhode Island Hospital (RIH), and Newport Hospital (NH), forming a multidisciplinary team whose level of knowledge and experience are unparalleled in the State of Rhode Island. TMH, as a part of the Brown University Health Cancer Institute, provides state-of-the-art care for patients with cancer.Award-Winning Care:Through the years, The Miriam Hospital has received numerous distinctions and awards. TMH is one of an elite group of hospitals nationwide and internationally to achieve Magnet designation for nursing excellence six times from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), with a current designation through 2024. This is the highest nursing credential, earned after an extensive application process is conducted every four years, in a hospital where nurses participate at all levels of care, making clinical and systems decisions to improve patient outcomes and experience.The Magnet Model promotes the critical role of nurses in achieving improved empirical outcomes through transformational leadership, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice and new knowledge, innovations and improvements. A Magnet designated hospitals must possess high level nurse-to-patient ratios above non-magnet hospitals and demonstrate improved patient outcomes with superb nursing care for retaining this credential.The Miriam Hospital earned the Top Hospital in Rhode Island designation from US News & World Report for the 13th year in a row in its 2024 to 2025 report on the best hospitals in the country. The Miriam also ranked as the Top Hospital in the Providence metro area, which includes Providence, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Fall River, Massachusetts, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.Additionally, US News & World Report awarded The Miriam a "high performing," rating for treatment of 10 conditions and adult specialty areas including hip and knee replacements, colon cancer surgery, heart and kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, prostate cancer surgery, pneumonia and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.The Spine Center at The Miriam Hos
- $54.6 million spent. Research:TMH has 428 research projects with total expenses of $51.7 million in fiscal year 2024 (106 investigators and 170 employees). TMH conducts extensive medical research and is in the forefront of biomedical health care delivery research and among the leaders nationally in National Institutes of Health programs. TMH also sponsors a significant level of these research activities. Federal support accounts for approximately ???% of all externally funded research at TMH. Researchers focus on clinical trials which investigate prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, obesity, cancer, diabetes, cardiac disease, and mental health concerns. Included in total program expenses and revenue are $???K of research grants from for-profit organizations that are not reported in Schedule H.(See Schedule O). TMH provided $2,882,000 in support of research activities in fiscal year 2024. TMH conducts extensive medical research and is in the forefront of biomedical health care delivery research and among the leaders nationally in National Institutes of Health programs. Major areas of research include:Cancer - TMH conducts clinical and behavioral research focusing on the many facets of cancer including prevention, education, and therapeutics, which are supported by the National Cancer Institute, the Cancer and Leukemia Group B, and the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project. TMH is a participating hospital in the Brown University-sponsored Cancer Oncology Group.HIV/AIDS - The Brown Health/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is a joint research effort among Brown University and Tufts University and their affiliated hospitals and centers. It is one of 20 centers located at academic medical centers throughout the United States that are part of the national CFAR program of the National Institutes of Health. The program emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, especially between basic and clinical investigators, and also encourages training and mentoring of young investigators as well as an inclusion of women and minorities. As part of the CFAR, division researchers engage in clinical, basic, and translational research designed to improve the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, with a major focus on women, racial and ethnic minorities, and individuals with substance abuse problems. At TMH, research focuses on the treatment and prevention of HIV infections, especially in hard-to-reach populations, both in the U.S. and abroad. There are international sites located in Cambodia, India, Kenya, Indonesia, The Philippines, and South Africa. TMH's TB Clinic performs research in the area of co-infections of HIV and tuberculosis. The Centers for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine aims to improve health through behavioral change and the integration of behavioral and biomedical science using clinical, community, and laboratory-based research. The Centers' research bridges biomedical, sociobehavioral, and population/public health scientific disciplines. Faculty members are committed to both basic research on discovering the mechanisms underlying behavioral factors in health and illness (e.g., examining the stress response among children and adolescents, neuroimaging of AIDS, and other medical conditions), and to applied research on the translation of these discoveries for clinical and community health improvement. Programs range from those that focus on primary prevention (e.g., promoting smoking cessation, preventing weight gain, increasing physical activity, and HIV/AIDS prevention) to improving the effectiveness of treatment and enhancing quality of life in populations such as cancer survivors and patients enrolled in cardiac rehabilitation programs.
- $30.6 million spent. Medical Education:TMH provides the setting for and substantially supports medical education in various clinical training and nursing programs. TMH is designated as a major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The total cost of direct medical education provided by TMH exceeded the reimbursement received from third-party payors by $24.5 million in fiscal year 2024. (Continued on Schedule O). TMH provides the setting for and substantially supports medical education in various clinical training and nursing programs. The total cost of medical education provided by TMH exceeded the reimbursement received from third-party payors by $24,466,654 in 2024.In 1969, TMH and certain other Rhode Island hospitals entered into an affiliation agreement to participate jointly in various clinical training programs and research activities with Brown Medical School, renamed The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (Brown). The goals of the partnership are to facilitate the expansion of joint educational and research programs to enable competition both clinically and academically.TMH participates in Brown programs in anesthesiology, internal medicine and medicine subspecialties, general surgery and surgical subspecialties, psychiatry, emergency medicine and emergency medicine subspecialties, orthopedics and orthopedic subspecialties, and dermatology. TMH provides stipends to residents and physician fellows while in training.In addition, TMH is a participating clinical training site for residents from other programs in anesthesiology, family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, hematology/oncology, obstetrics/gynecology (OB/Gyn) and OB/Gyn subspecialties, dermatology, dermatopathology and pediatric pathology, otolaryngology, pediatric dentistry, podiatry, psychiatry and its subspecialties of forensic psychiatry, consult liaison psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry, orthopedics, rheumatology, and radiation oncology.Various departments and specialties at TMH serve as clinical sites for the physician assistant schools of Johnson & Wales University, Bryant University, and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. In addition, Behavioral Medicine at TMH, in collaboration with Brown, sponsors research and clinical psychology training programs for interns, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty trainees.With respect to nursing education, TMH has developed educational affiliations with the University of Rhode Island College of Nursing; Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI); Salve Regina University; Boston College; Yale University; Regis College; Simmons College; the University of Massachusetts campuses at Dartmouth, Boston, Amherst, and Worcester; Framingham State University; the University of Connecticut; The New England Institute of Technology; Northeastern University; Drexel University; Walden University; Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies; Duke University School of Nursing; and the University of Pennsylvania, as well as other Schools of Nursing, pursuant to which their nursing students obtain clinical training and experience at TMH. TMH does not receive any compensation from the various schools for providing a clinical setting for the student nurse training. The Brown Health School of Medical Imaging collaborates with Rhode Island College in the following programs: diagnostic medical sonography; nuclear medicine technology; radiography; and magnetic resonance imaging. Students complete educational experiences at the Hospital, as well as other outpatient sites.TMH sponsors training programs for a variety of allied health care professionals, including required clinical and fieldwork experiences in physical, speech, and occupational therapy, which are provided to university students in each discipline through contracts with the various universities. TMH acts as a clinical training site for students from CCRI in its vascular and cardiology ultrasound programs and provides training experiences for both phlebotomy students and physical therapy assistant students. TMH serves as a clinical training site for students from The Nuclear Medicine Institute of the University of Findlay (Ohio) and has educational affiliations with the respiratory programs at both CCRI and The New England Institute of Technology. TMHs EEG Department provides clinical training to neurodiagnostic technology students from Laboure College (Massachusetts).TMH has clinical affiliations/student clinical training programs for pharmacy students provided through contracts with various colleges and universities. Most of the pharmacy students attend the University of Rhode Island, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Northeastern University. TMH has clinical social work student contracts with Rhode Island College, Boston University, Boston College, Smith College, Simmons College, and Bridgewater State University.
Source: Form 990 for the year ending September 30, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 30, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 10, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending September 2025.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since January 1935.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated September 7, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 7, 2026.
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