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 633 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Elizabeth's Hospital (HSHS)

Chris Klay, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$566,691
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.18%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
71.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Chris Klay’s pay of $566,691 equals 71.6 percent of the $791,739 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$501,488,399
Total expenses
$444,986,276
Net assets
−$157,478,672
Employees
2,283
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$791,739
Bad debt
$0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($47,870,062)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$308,989
From related organizations (col. E)
$154,494
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$103,208
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$566,691 to Chris Klay

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, St Elizabeth's Hospital (HSHS), EIN 37-0663567, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$26.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$791,739 (3%)

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.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
St Elizabeth's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Fr Ancis37-06635672025-06$337.1M$457,7270.15%990
St Joseph's Hospital - Hospital Sisters - Third Order of St Francis37-12084592025-06$81.4M$159,0580.26%990
St Joseph's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Franc Is37-06635682025-06$58.4M$113,3160.25%990
Hshs Holy Family Hospital37-07927702025-06$24.5M$61,6380.25%990

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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St Elizabeth's Hospital (HSHS): CEO pay $566,691, charity care 0.18% of expenses