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 592 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Mclaren Northern Michigan

Garfield Atchison, Director & President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$632,609
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.62%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
13.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($609,718 of $632,609) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$316,314,167
Total expenses
$301,041,770
Net assets
$182,411,268
Employees
1,344
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$4,864,989
Bad debt
$3,678,038
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$9,559,880
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$609,718
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$22,891
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$632,609 to Garfield Atchison

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 Northern Michigan, EIN 38-2146751, 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)$12.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$4.9M (38%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.7M) 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 Northern Michigan: CEO pay $632,609, charity care 1.62% of expenses