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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

Pablo Celnik MD, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2025-08.

$2.2M

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.05%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

1088.7%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

In the most recent filing year, Pablo Celnik MD’s reported compensation was $2,230,293. The system’s charity care for the same year was $204,863. One person’s reported compensation was 10.9 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Peggy M Kirk, Former President, CEO, $2,503,629. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $481,384,946
Total expenses: $454,060,970
Net assets: $919,401,654
Employees: 3,334
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $204,863
Bad debt: $0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: ($17,871,399)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $2,130,622
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $99,671
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $2,230,293 to Pablo Celnik MD

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, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, EIN 36-2256036, fiscal year ending 2025-08, 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)$43.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$204,863 (0%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($0) 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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Shirley Ryan AbilityLab reported $2,230,293 in compensation for chief executive Pablo Celnik MD in the fiscal year ending 2025-08. It spent 0.05% of expenses on charity care, $204,863. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/rehabilitation-institute-of-chicago-36-2256036.html