Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Illinois · Ranked 394 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers

Michael Mutterer, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.0M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.22%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
15.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Michael Mutterer’s pay of $1,039,147 equals 15.3 percent of the $6,800,529 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($981,821 of $1,039,147) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$607,951,859
Total expenses
$556,426,566
Net assets
$503,328,169
Employees
3,729
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$6,800,529
Bad debt
$6,367,000
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($21,340,000)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$981,821
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$57,326
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,039,147 to Michael Mutterer

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, Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers, EIN 36-2174832, 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)$38.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.8M (18%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($6.4M) 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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Silver Cross Hospital and Medical Centers: CEO pay $1.0M, charity care 1.22% of expenses