Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New Jersey · Ranked 186 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Saint Peter's University Hospital

Leslie D Hirsch FACHE, Trustee - President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.37%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
91.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Leslie D Hirsch FACHE’s pay of $2,051,343 equals 91.7 percent of the $2,236,802 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($1,737,001 of $2,051,343) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$650,125,285
Total expenses
$609,402,884
Net assets
$370,887,000
Employees
4,236
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,236,802
Bad debt
$18,561,205
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($9,050,929)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,737,001
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$314,342
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,051,343 to Leslie D Hirsch FACHE

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, Saint Peter's University Hospital, EIN 22-1487330, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$40.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.2M (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($18.6M) 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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Saint Peter's University Hospital: CEO pay $2.1M, charity care 0.37% of expenses