Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 512 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Memorial Health System

Drew Early, Prs&CEO Dmh/Brdmemmmg. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$790,712
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.73%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
6.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($679,754 of $790,712) 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: Edgar Curtis, President&CEO Mh; Brdmbr Mmg, $2,607,083. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,750,812,430
Total expenses
$1,725,507,704
Net assets
$1,302,870,600
Employees
10,286
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$12,616,670
Bad debt
$85,891,701
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($27,957,294)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$679,754
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$110,958
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$790,712 to Drew Early

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, Memorial Health System, EIN 90-0756744, 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)$164.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$12.6M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($85.9M) 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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Memorial Health System: CEO pay $790,712, charity care 0.73% of expenses