Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Not ranked: see note below.

Ascension Borgess Hospital

Dean Douglas Kindler MD, Ex-Officio/President (Start 10/2024). Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$866,856
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.00%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
15.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Dean Douglas Kindler MD’s pay of $866,856 equals 15.4 percent of the $5,636,988 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Most of the reported compensation ($806,471 of $866,856) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$535,679,388
Total expenses
$563,850,913
Net assets
−$52,920,343
Employees
2,940
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$5,636,988
Bad debt
$4,268,987
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$22,338,711
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$806,471
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$60,385
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$866,856 to Dean Douglas Kindler MD

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, Ascension Borgess Hospital, EIN 38-1360526, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$28.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$5.6M (20%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.3M) 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
Ascension Borgess Hospital38-13605262025-06$486.2M$4.5M0.87%990
Ascension Borgess Allegan Hospital38-13591802025-06$32.9M$431,5711.37%990
Ascension Borgess-Lee Hospital38-14901902025-06$16.5M$726,8274.07%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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Ascension Borgess Hospital: CEO pay $866,856, charity care 1.00% of expenses