Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Ranked 442 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Franciscan Hospital for Children

Joseph A Mitchell MD, President & CEO (End Term 4/25). Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$940,919
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.03%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3186.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Joseph A Mitchell MD’s reported compensation was $940,919. The system’s charity care for the same year was $29,529. One person’s reported compensation was 31.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$99,806,270
Total expenses
$99,245,498
Net assets
$126,611,388
Employees
973
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$29,529
Bad debt
$32,133
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$44,020
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$939,919
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,000
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$940,919 to Joseph A Mitchell MD

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, Franciscan Hospital for Children, EIN 04-2156082, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$12.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$29,529 (0%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($32,133) 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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Franciscan Hospital for Children: CEO pay $940,919, charity care 0.03% of expenses