Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Ranked 413 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mclaren Flint

Christopher Candela, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
15.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Christopher Candela’s pay of $1,011,297 equals 15.7 percent of the $6,433,161 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($959,038 of $1,011,297) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$606,613,375
Total expenses
$548,051,957
Net assets
$474,867,273
Employees
2,799
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$6,433,161
Bad debt
$6,164,893
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$10,755,046
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$959,038
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$52,259
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,011,297 to Christopher Candela

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, Mclaren Flint, EIN 38-2383119, 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)$34.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.4M (19%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.2M) 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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Mclaren Flint: CEO pay $1.0M, charity care 1.17% of expenses