Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Maine · Ranked 720 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Down East Community Hospital

Steven Lail, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$456,442
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.14%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
371.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Steven Lail’s reported compensation was $456,442. The system’s charity care for the same year was $123,040. One person’s reported compensation was 3.7 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$94,284,356
Total expenses
$88,788,676
Net assets
$40,540,451
Employees
659
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$123,040
Bad debt
$0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($831,058)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$416,738
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$39,704
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$456,442 to Steven Lail

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, Down East Community Hospital, EIN 01-0263198, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$4.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$123,040 (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($0) 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
Down East Community Hospital01-02631982024-12$64.8M$96,3700.16%990
Calais Community Hospital86-27287852024-12$29.5M$26,6700.09%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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Down East Community Hospital: CEO pay $456,442, charity care 0.14% of expenses