Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Maine · Ranked 712 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Northern Maine Medical Center

Jeff Zewe, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$464,048
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.13%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
411.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Jeff Zewe’s reported compensation was $464,048. The system’s charity care for the same year was $112,717. One person’s reported compensation was 4.1 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$84,798,967
Total expenses
$88,420,890
Net assets
$38,366,029
Employees
577
Hospitals covered
2 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$112,717
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($659,048)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$420,526
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$43,522
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$464,048 to Jeff Zewe

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, Northern Maine Medical Center, EIN 01-0234189, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$1.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$112,717 (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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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Northern Maine Medical Center: CEO pay $464,048, charity care 0.13% of expenses