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 443 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Griffin Hospital

Patrick A Charmel, CEO/President, Bod Secretary. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$937,007
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.91%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
40.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Patrick A Charmel’s pay of $937,007 equals 40.5 percent of the $2,313,010 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$273,659,100
Total expenses
$255,035,957
Net assets
$83,605,714
Employees
2,210
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,313,010
Bad debt
$1,333,368
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($21,725,414)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$709,405
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$227,602
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$937,007 to Patrick A Charmel

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, Griffin Hospital, EIN 06-0647014, 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)$19.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.3M (12%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.3M) 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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Griffin Hospital: CEO pay $937,007, charity care 0.91% of expenses