Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Ranked 41 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Fairview Health Services

James Hereford, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$5.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.77%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
12.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

§1The filing

Total revenue
$6,113,584,242
Total expenses
$5,677,554,435
Net assets
$2,647,329,591
Employees
33,383
Hospitals covered
8 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$43,821,089
Bad debt
$94,911,456
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($214,629,622)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$4,854,478
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$805,007
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$5,659,485 to James Hereford

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, Fairview Health Services, EIN 41-0991680, 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)$462.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$43.8M (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($94.9M) 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
Fairview Health Services41-09916802024-12$5.3B$35.7M0.74%990
Healtheast St John's Hospital41-14568972024-12$521.8M$5.5M1.07%990
Healtheast Woodwinds Hospital41-15927612024-12$228.5M$2.7M1.20%990
Fairview Bethesda Hospital36-35176972024-12$37.1M$00.00%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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Fairview Health Services: CEO pay $5.7M, charity care 0.77% of expenses