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 842 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Memorial Hospital Association

Ada Bair, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$317,844
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.31%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
44.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Ada Bair’s pay of $317,844 equals 44.7 percent of the $711,000 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$54,499,965
Total expenses
$54,334,029
Net assets
$29,026,178
Employees
409
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$711,000
Bad debt
$2,498,166
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($29,390)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$286,981
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$30,863
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$317,844 to Ada Bair

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 Hospital Association, EIN 37-0684691, 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)$13.1M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$711,000 (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.5M) 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 Hospital Association: CEO pay $317,844, charity care 1.31% of expenses