Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Maryland · Ranked 293 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Adventist Healthcare

John Sackett, Pres. & CEO,Ahc,Start 8/2024. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$1.4M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.03%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

The chief executive's title on the filing indicates a change during the year (PRES. & CEO,AHC,START 8/2024); the pay shown is what the filing reports for that person, which may cover part of the year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Terry Forde, Pres. & CEO,Ahc,End 8/2024, $1,241,328. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,043,687,442
Total expenses
$988,808,713
Net assets
$748,005,855
Employees
8,201
Hospitals covered
8 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$20,070,810
Bad debt
$30,246,972
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$26,462,023
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,332,344
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$76,309
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,408,653 to John Sackett

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Adventist Healthcare, EIN 52-1532556, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$92.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$20.1M (22%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($30.2M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Adventist Healthcare Inc52-15325562024-12$909.8M$17.9M2.08%990
Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland Inc20-14866782024-12$74.8M$66,3270.10%990
Adventist Healthcare Fort Washington Medical Center Inc84-26708752024-12$59.1M$2.1M3.56%990

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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Adventist Healthcare: CEO pay $1.4M, charity care 2.03% of expenses