Here are 14 hospital and health system executive compensation stories from the past month, beginning with stories that broke most recently.
1. Robert Levine, the former CEO of the now closed Peninsula Hospital, is seeking more than $1.2 million in severance pay from the New York City facility in bankruptcy court.
2. Compensation for executives of Atlanta-based SunLink Health Systems has not wavered much over the past three years as the for-profit hospital operator has treaded in financially dangerous waters. Robert Thornton Jr., chairman, president and CEO of SunLink, earned $362,742 in 2011, a $23,000 increase from his 2010 compensation but still a generally low amount for the top executive of a for-profit hospital chain.
3. Here are 24 statistics from a 2009 IRS non-profit hospital compensation report based on 2007 data on non-profit hospital CEO compensation, categorized by the hospital's total revenue.
4. Here are 20 statistics from the 2009 IRS report based on 2007 data on non-profit hospital CEO pay, categorized by the hospital's community type.
5. Last year, total compensation for Gary Newsome, president and CEO of Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates, increased 11.3 percent, from $6.38 million in 2010 to $7.11 million in 2011.
6. In 2011, Wayne Smith, president and CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, made more than $21.58 million in total compensation, an increase from the $20.96 million he made in 2010.
7. Total compensation for Alan Miller, CEO and chairman of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, swelled 27 percent last year, from $9.85 million in 2010 to $12.5 million in 2011.
8. The national average salary of hospital chief nursing officers increased 2.24 percent from 2010 to 2011 to an average of $148,112.
9. Alan Miller, CEO and chairman of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, and four other UHS executives are reaping the rewards of a strong 2011 fiscal year, as the UHS compensation committee authorized payment of annual incentive bonuses last month.
10. Total compensation for Trevor Fetter, president and CEO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, dropped 12 percent from 2010 to $10.74 million in 2011.
11. The board of commissioners at Smithfield, N.C.-based Johnston Health approved a 3 percent raise for CEO Chuck Elliott, who will now make roughly $309,000 this year. He has not received a raise since joining the health system in 2009.
12. Roughly 20 executives at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., received compensation increases in 2010, the same year in which the hospital laid off 130 employees, froze hiring and cut $18 million from the 2011 budget.
13. An article from 1Miami, a city community group, recently argued that the large compensation packages of Jackson Health System executives need to be "right-sized" in the wake of more than 1,100 layoffs of the Miami-based hospital system.
14. In 2010, Fred Rankin III, CEO of Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington Healthcare, earned more than $3 million in total compensation after he vested on his supplemental executive retirement plan.
1. Robert Levine, the former CEO of the now closed Peninsula Hospital, is seeking more than $1.2 million in severance pay from the New York City facility in bankruptcy court.
2. Compensation for executives of Atlanta-based SunLink Health Systems has not wavered much over the past three years as the for-profit hospital operator has treaded in financially dangerous waters. Robert Thornton Jr., chairman, president and CEO of SunLink, earned $362,742 in 2011, a $23,000 increase from his 2010 compensation but still a generally low amount for the top executive of a for-profit hospital chain.
3. Here are 24 statistics from a 2009 IRS non-profit hospital compensation report based on 2007 data on non-profit hospital CEO compensation, categorized by the hospital's total revenue.
4. Here are 20 statistics from the 2009 IRS report based on 2007 data on non-profit hospital CEO pay, categorized by the hospital's community type.
5. Last year, total compensation for Gary Newsome, president and CEO of Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates, increased 11.3 percent, from $6.38 million in 2010 to $7.11 million in 2011.
6. In 2011, Wayne Smith, president and CEO of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, made more than $21.58 million in total compensation, an increase from the $20.96 million he made in 2010.
7. Total compensation for Alan Miller, CEO and chairman of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, swelled 27 percent last year, from $9.85 million in 2010 to $12.5 million in 2011.
8. The national average salary of hospital chief nursing officers increased 2.24 percent from 2010 to 2011 to an average of $148,112.
9. Alan Miller, CEO and chairman of King of Prussia, Pa.-based Universal Health Services, and four other UHS executives are reaping the rewards of a strong 2011 fiscal year, as the UHS compensation committee authorized payment of annual incentive bonuses last month.
10. Total compensation for Trevor Fetter, president and CEO of Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare, dropped 12 percent from 2010 to $10.74 million in 2011.
11. The board of commissioners at Smithfield, N.C.-based Johnston Health approved a 3 percent raise for CEO Chuck Elliott, who will now make roughly $309,000 this year. He has not received a raise since joining the health system in 2009.
12. Roughly 20 executives at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., received compensation increases in 2010, the same year in which the hospital laid off 130 employees, froze hiring and cut $18 million from the 2011 budget.
13. An article from 1Miami, a city community group, recently argued that the large compensation packages of Jackson Health System executives need to be "right-sized" in the wake of more than 1,100 layoffs of the Miami-based hospital system.
14. In 2010, Fred Rankin III, CEO of Fredericksburg, Va.-based Mary Washington Healthcare, earned more than $3 million in total compensation after he vested on his supplemental executive retirement plan.
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