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 246 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center

Tim Dentry, Ex-Officio. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.45%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
16.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Tim Dentry’s pay of $1,659,381 equals 16.4 percent of the $10,131,595 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($1,591,453 of $1,659,381) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,294,417,910
Total expenses
$2,255,091,407
Net assets
$596,639,802
Employees
11,596
Hospitals covered
10 facilities across 10 filings
Charity care, net
$10,131,595
Bad debt
$23,880,427
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($151,080,806)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,591,453
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$67,928
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,659,381 to Tim Dentry

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, Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center, EIN 01-0211501, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$84.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$10.1M (12%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($23.9M) 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
Eastern Maine Medical Center Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Cen01-02115012025-09$1.3B$931,8430.07%990
Mercy Hospital Northern Light Mercy Hospital01-02115342025-09$372.1M$374,6230.11%990
The Aroostook Medical Center Northern Light Ar Gould Hospital01-03721482025-09$185.1M$99,2280.06%990
Maine Coast Regional Health Facilities Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital01-01983312025-09$130.3M$94,6760.08%990
Acadia Hospital Corp Northern Light Acadia Hospital01-04598372025-09$98.1M$8.2M10.53%990
Mrh Corp Northern Light Mayo Hospital84-36890032025-09$72.9M$32,6790.05%990
Sebasticook Valley Health Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hosp01-02636282025-09$66.9M$47,6280.08%990
The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital01-02271952025-09$39.5M$24,9020.06%990
Inland Hospital Northern Light Inland Hospital01-02172112025-09$33.4M$207,2110.29%990
Charles A Dean Memorial Hospital Northern Light Ca Dean Hospital04-33416662025-09$28.6M$77,4610.30%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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Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center: CEO pay $1.7M, charity care 0.45% of expenses