Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Missouri · Not ranked: see note below.

Mercy Hospital Jefferson

Eckenfels Daniel, President & CAO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$661,787
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.92%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
9.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Most of the reported compensation ($582,980 of $661,787) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$383,065,977
Total expenses
$353,921,945
Net assets
$210,536,886
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$6,795,352
Bad debt
$3,886,470
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$3,163,274
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$582,980
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$78,807
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$661,787 to Eckenfels Daniel

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, Mercy Hospital Jefferson, EIN 43-0687077, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$9.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.8M (71%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.9M) 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
Mercy Hospital Jefferson43-06870772025-06$300.2M$5.7M2.05%990
Mercy Hospital Perry92-30654732025-06$82.9M$1.1M1.44%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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Mercy Hospital Jefferson: CEO pay $661,787, charity care 1.92% of expenses