Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Pennsylvania · Ranked 540 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Millcreek Community Hospital

Mary L Eckert, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$723,538
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.82%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
90.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Mary L Eckert’s pay of $723,538 equals 90.8 percent of the $796,878 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: John M Ferretti DO, Chairman/President & CEO, $1,609,483. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$91,849,988
Total expenses
$97,555,111
Net assets
$128,786,272
Employees
845
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$796,878
Bad debt
$2,694,379
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$3,136,626
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$690,230
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$33,308
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$723,538 to Mary L Eckert

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, Millcreek Community Hospital, EIN 25-1002937, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$11.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$796,878 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.7M) 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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Millcreek Community Hospital: CEO pay $723,538, charity care 0.82% of expenses