Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New York · Connecticut · Ranked 37 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northwell Health (Long Island Jewish)

Michael Dowling, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$5.9M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.05%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($5,867,706 of $5,943,362) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: John M Murphy MD, Nuvance President & CEO; Director, $5,305,723. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$19,622,897,881
Total expenses
$19,018,389,495
Net assets
$8,844,081,934
Employees
84,047
Hospitals covered
27 facilities across 19 filings
Charity care, net
$198,891,534
Bad debt
$144,231,942
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($730,264,121)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$5,867,706
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$75,656
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$5,943,362 to Michael Dowling

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, Northwell Health (Long Island Jewish), EIN 11-2241326, 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)$2.5B Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$198.9M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($144.2M) 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
Long Island Jewish Medical Center11-22413262024-12$4.6B$49.6M1.10%990
North Shore University Hospital11-15627012024-12$3.9B$32.6M0.85%990
Lenox Hill Hospital C/O Northwell Health Inc13-16240702024-12$2.2B$23.3M1.12%990
Staten Island University Hospital11-28688782024-12$1.6B$11.6M0.75%990
South Shore University Hospital C/O Northwell Health Inc11-16677612024-12$1.2B$15.1M1.30%990
The Danbury Hospital06-06465972025-09$943.2M$18.1M1.92%990
Vassar Brothers Hospital14-13385862025-09$920.3M$6.9M0.75%990
Huntington Hospital Association11-16309142024-12$797.3M$6.9M0.95%990
Northern Westchester Hospital Association C/O Northwell Health Inc13-17401182024-12$594.0M$3.0M0.57%990
John T Mather Memorial Hospital C/O Northwell Health Inc11-16398182024-12$478.6M$2.1M0.47%990
Phelps Memorial Hospital Association C/O Northwell Health Inc13-17250762024-12$445.0M$2.6M0.61%990
The Norwalk Hospital Association06-60688532025-09$439.3M$12.8M2.67%990
Central Suffolk Hospital11-16613592024-12$365.8M$2.2M0.52%990
Plainview Hospital C/O Northwell Health Inc11-32412432024-12$349.7M$3.4M1.01%990
Glen Cove Hospital C/O Northwell Health Inc11-16334872024-12$283.8M$4.3M1.60%990
Northern Dutchess Hospital14-13384672025-09$227.6M$1.6M0.74%990
Putnam Hospital Center14-60191792025-09$125.6M$1.4M0.89%990
The Long Island Home C/O Northwell Health Inc11-28372442024-12$124.6M$815,1120.68%990
Vassar Health Connecticut Inc81-50562902025-09$57.2M$578,3530.78%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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Northwell Health (Long Island Jewish): CEO pay $5.9M, charity care 1.05% of expenses