Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Connecticut · Ranked 185 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center

James E Shmerlingdhafache, Director - President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$2.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.16%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
208.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, James E Shmerlingdhafache’s reported compensation was $2,052,851. The system’s charity care for the same year was $983,483. One person’s reported compensation was 2.1 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$639,591,217
Total expenses
$609,949,712
Net assets
$600,172,697
Employees
2,885
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$983,483
Bad debt
$9,845,482
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($34,250)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$2,003,014
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$49,837
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,052,851 to James E Shmerlingdhafache

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, Connecticut Children's Medical Center, EIN 06-0646755, 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)$157.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$983,483 (1%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.8M) 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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Connecticut Children's Medical Center: CEO pay $2.1M, charity care 0.16% of expenses