Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Ranked 120 of 1033 by CEO pay.

The Lowell General Hospital

Michael Dandorph, President & CEO - Tufts Medicine. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$2.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.69%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
42.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Michael Dandorph’s pay of $2,678,414 equals 42.7 percent of the $6,278,100 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($2,307,376 of $2,678,414) 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: Joseph A White, Former President/CEO, $2,050,443. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$953,822,782
Total expenses
$908,244,264
Net assets
$304,411,657
Employees
5,695
Hospitals covered
12 facilities across 2 filings
Charity care, net
$6,278,100
Bad debt
$9,731,816
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($30,299,424)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,307,376
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$371,038
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,678,414 to Michael Dandorph

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, The Lowell General Hospital, EIN 04-2103590, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$67.2M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.3M (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.7M) 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
The Lowell General Hospital04-21035902025-09$666.4M$4.4M0.71%990
Melrosewakefield Healthcare Inc04-27678802025-09$287.4M$1.8M0.65%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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The Lowell General Hospital: CEO pay $2.7M, charity care 0.69% of expenses