Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Minnesota · Not ranked: see note below.

Mille Lacs Health System

William Nelson, CEO/Consultant. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$527,344
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
n/a
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Not in the ranking because the filing reports zero on line 7a while reporting other community benefit, which usually means charity care was booked on another line; the filing is being read by hand; and no charity care figure is present. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$74,512,816
Total expenses
$74,729,999
Net assets
$17,705,640
Employees
559
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
Bad debt
$2,726,421
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($213,884)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$450,524
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$76,820
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$527,344 to William Nelson

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, Mille Lacs Health System, EIN 41-0785161, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

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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Mille Lacs Health System: CEO pay $527,344, charity care  of expenses