Compensation of Top Officials at Selected Non-Profit Organizations: Hospitals

September 23, 1999 | Read Time: 2 minutes

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Results of The Chronicle’s survey of salaries of top executives at non-profit organizations and foundations presented in a series of charts, and links to related articles.

	Chief executive and other highest-paid official	Compensation	Benefits	Expense allowance	Organization’s income	Top officials’ total compensation as percentage of organization’s income	End of fiscal year

ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis)*	Arthur W. Nienhuis, Chief Executive Officer	$322,655	$24,438	$7,750	$421,647,373	0.2%	6/30/98
	Stephen J. Shochat, Chairman, Surgery Department	$355,416	$15,142	$81,201¹⁸

Catholic Healthcare West (San Francisco)¹⁹	Richard J. Kramer, President	$687,457	$85,921	$18,817	$3,530,825,000	0.0%	6/30/98
	Kevin Fickensher, Senior Vice-President	$613,077	$13,418	$125,593²⁰

City of Hope (Los Angeles)*	Charles M. Balch, Chief Executive Officer**	$592,308	$40,186	$24,046	$274,957,000	0.4%	9/30/98
	John S. Kovach, Executive Vice-President	$478,560	$21,225	$26,960

Mayo Foundation (Rochester, Minn.)*	Robert R. Walker, President	$585,670	$49,559	$0	$2,890,000,000	0.1%	12/31/98
	Hamlet A. Peterson, Pediatrician	$869,979	$56,025	$0

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York)*	Paul A. Marks, President	$1,077,500	$281,582	$49,511	$1,158,384,000	0.2%	12/31/98
	David Hidalgo, Chief Associate Attending Surgeon	$1,268,806	$74,919	$0

	Chief executive and other highest-paid official	Compensation	Benefits	Expense allowance	Organization’s income	Top officials’ total compensation as percentage of organization’s income	End of fiscal year

Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York)*	John W. Rowe, President	$1,163,875	$216,250	$0	$1,316,501,968	0.2%	12/31/96
	Charles Miller, Associate Professor	$1,080,496	$13,669	$0

National Jewish Medical and Research Center (Denver)	Lynn Taussig, President	$386,071	$18,103	$0	$92,286,000	0.8%	6/30/98
	James D. Crapo, Executive Vice-President, Academic Affairs	$332,253	$17,897	$0

Osmond Foundation (Children’s Miracle Network) (Salt Lake City)*	Mick Shannon, Chief Executive Officer	$282,900²¹	$29,910	$13,780	$184,471,352	0.3%	8/31/98
	Joseph G. Lake, Executive Vice-President**	$252,000²²	$29,910	$11,554

Partners HealthCare System (Boston)*	Samuel O. Thier, President	$600,000	$209,541	$0	$2,277,820,000²³	0.1%	9/30/97
	James Herndon, Physician	$487,500	$230,275	$0

Rush-Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center (Chicago)	Leo M. Henikoff, President	$717,464	$8,456	$0	$1,055,884,056	0.2%	12/31/98
	Donald R. Oder, Vice-President²⁴	$998,388²⁵	$5,223	$0

	Chief executive and other highest-paid official	Compensation	Benefits	Expense allowance	Organization’s income	Top officials’ total compensation as percentage of organization’s income	End of fiscal year

Scripps Institutions of Medicine and Science (La Jolla, Cal.)	Richard A. Lerner, President, Scripps Research Institute	$698,065	$200,762	$20,606	$931,142,193	0.2%	9/30/98
	Ames Early, President, Scripps Health**	$669,631	$10,658	$0

Shriners Hospitals For Children (Tampa, Fla.)²⁶	Newton McCollough, Director of Medicine	$330,231	$49,000	$0	$1,493,578,000	n/a	12/31/98
	Lewis K. Molnar, Executive Vice-President	$192,005	n/a	$0

University of California at San Francisco Stanford Health Care	Peter W. Van Etten, Chief Executive Officer	$375,770	$28,203	$0	$1,383,367,317	0.1%	8/31/98
	Lawrence J. Furnstahl, Chief Financial Officer	$377,841	$30,028	$0

University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer (Houston)	John Mendelsohn, President	$304,000	$240,320²⁷	$9,000	$839,115,765	0.1%	8/31/98
	Raymond Sawaya, Department Chair, Neurosurgery	$450,000	$216,000	$9,000

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas	Kern Wildenthal, President	$291,200	$114,165	$102,397²⁸	$532,653,140	0.3%	8/31/98
	Rod J. Rohrich, Chairman, Department of Plastic Surgery	$968,892	$292,404	$0