Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Michigan · Ranked 589 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Joseph Mercy Chelsea

Benjamin Miles, President & CEO Chelsea Hospital. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$644,481
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.52%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
55.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Benjamin Miles’s pay of $644,481 equals 55.5 percent of the $1,161,978 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($518,612 of $644,481) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$229,988,373
Total expenses
$221,681,437
Net assets
$145,435,728
Employees
0
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,161,978
Bad debt
$3,929,766
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$373,828
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$518,612
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$125,869
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$644,481 to Benjamin Miles

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 Mercy Chelsea, EIN 82-4757260, 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)$8.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.2M (14%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.9M) 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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St Joseph Mercy Chelsea: CEO pay $644,481, charity care 0.52% of expenses