Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 220 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Joseph Hospital of Orange

Brian Lee Helleland, CEO/President. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$1.8M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.72%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
7.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($1,529,981 of $1,763,249) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Seth Teigen, CEO/President, $1,342,553; Laura Ramos, CEO/President, $1,229,051. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,300,364,271
Total expenses
$3,340,887,662
Net assets
$2,176,919,735
Employees
11,720
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 4 filings
Charity care, net
$24,052,445
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($430,816,813)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,529,981
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$233,268
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,763,249 to Brian Lee Helleland

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 Joseph Hospital of Orange, EIN 95-1643359, 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)$223.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$24.1M (11%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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 Joseph Hospital of Orange95-16433592024-12$970.1M$6.2M0.62%990
Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center95-16433602024-12$954.2M$5.7M0.62%990
St Jude Hospital95-16433252024-12$950.5M$5.9M0.61%990
St Mary Medical Center95-19144892024-12$425.6M$6.1M1.44%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 Joseph Hospital of Orange: CEO pay $1.8M, charity care 0.72% of expenses