Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 422 of 1033 by CEO pay.

St Mary's Hospital

Stonish Pierce, Director; President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$994,277
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
6.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($801,650 of $994,277) 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: D Montez Carter, Former Officer; Th Of Ne Pres & CEO, $1,659,446. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$386,779,910
Total expenses
$373,197,438
Net assets
$132,316,038
Employees
2,862
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$15,553,021
Bad debt
$17,464,757
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($306,034)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$801,650
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$192,627
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$994,277 to Stonish Pierce

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 Mary's Hospital, EIN 58-0566223, 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)$25.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$15.6M (61%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($17.5M) 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 Mary's Hospital Inc58-05662232025-06$295.5M$10.9M4.03%990
St Mary's Sacred Heart Hospital Inc47-37521762025-06$49.6M$3.1M6.37%990
St Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital Inc26-17209842025-06$41.6M$1.5M4.24%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 Mary's Hospital: CEO pay $994,277, charity care 4.17% of expenses