Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 428 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Blessing Hospital

Brian T Canfield, Pres/CEO Bcs. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$982,702
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.15%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($827,269 of $982,702) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$731,188,393
Total expenses
$706,101,422
Net assets
$555,011,213
Employees
4,529
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$8,110,560
Bad debt
$21,916,245
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($5,746,320)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$827,269
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$155,433
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$982,702 to Brian T Canfield

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, Blessing Hospital, EIN 37-0661183, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$18.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$8.1M (45%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($21.9M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

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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Blessing Hospital: CEO pay $982,702, charity care 1.15% of expenses