Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Dakota · Minnesota · Not ranked: see note below.

Mercy Medical Center

David Jones, Market President-Cah Central Region. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$616,729
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
2.66%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
11.5%
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 ($522,725 of $616,729) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$217,834,440
Total expenses
$202,430,396
Net assets
$302,906,569
Employees
977
Hospitals covered
6 facilities across 6 filings
Charity care, net
$5,374,604
Bad debt
$15,758,853
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($7,573,525)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$522,725
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$94,004
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$616,729 to David Jones

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 Medical Center, EIN 45-0231183, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$8.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$5.4M (62%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($15.8M) 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 Medical Center45-02311832025-06$101.9M$3.2M3.09%990
Mercy Hospital of Devils Lake45-02270122025-06$45.4M$1.6M4.48%990
Lakewood Health Center41-07584342025-06$22.5M$111,0440.50%990
Mercy Hospital of Valley City45-02265532025-06$18.5M$219,8451.51%990
Carrington Health Center45-02273112025-06$17.1M$144,7201.01%990
Oakes Community Hospital45-02316752025-06$12.3M$109,2790.88%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 Medical Center: CEO pay $616,729, charity care 2.66% of expenses