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 675 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St John's Hospital (HSHS)

Chad Markham, Chief Operating Officer, President & CEO (3/7/25 - 5/27/25). Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$505,232
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.16%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
31.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Chad Markham’s pay of $505,232 equals 31.5 percent of the $1,605,040 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$1,084,981,873
Total expenses
$1,035,265,494
Net assets
$515,512,878
Employees
5,065
Hospitals covered
5 facilities across 5 filings
Charity care, net
$1,605,040
Bad debt
$0
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($78,698,421)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$278,910
From related organizations (col. E)
$139,455
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$86,867
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$505,232 to Chad Markham

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 John's Hospital (HSHS), EIN 37-0661238, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$108.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.6M (1%)

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 John's Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis37-06612382025-06$699.1M$833,2080.12%990
St Anthony's Memorial Hospital of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order O F St Francis37-06612332025-06$180.5M$406,9870.28%990
St Mary's Hospital Decatur of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis37-06612442025-06$119.9M$143,5980.11%990
St Francis Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis37-06612362025-06$61.7M$158,6080.31%990
Hshs Good Shepherd Hospital Inc37-05122902025-06$23.7M$62,6390.34%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 John's Hospital (HSHS): CEO pay $505,232, charity care 0.16% of expenses