Vermont Business MagazineVermont hospital executivesand surgeons make the most money, not surprisingly, with Dr John Brumsted, the CEO of the University of Vermont Health Network, the top earner in the region at over $2 million a year. More than half of his income was from bonuses and other compensation. Dr James Weinstein, who recently stepped down as CEO of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in West Lebanon, NH, has the highest salary at $1.2 million, with a total compensation of $1.5 million. Brumsted leads a consortium of hospitals (including CVMC) in Vermont and in upstate New York.
Nonprofit hospitals are required to submit information about their mission, programs and finances, including the salaries of their highest-compensated employees, annually to the IRS on Form 990. To help make this information more transparent for Vermonters, the Green Mountain Care Board had requested the Form 990s from each of Vermont’s 14 non-profit hospitals.
In addition, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire, which provides care to many Vermonters, voluntarily provided its Form 990 to the Board.
The Board requested comparable salary information from HealthFirst, which represents Vermont independent health care practitioners. HealthFirst declined the Board’s request.
The hospital CEO was usually, but not always, the top earner at individual hospitals.
For instance at Rutland Regional Medical Center, CEO Thomas Huebner made a total of $565,038, while seven doctors made more, including Dr Melbourne Boynton, Chief Medical Director, who made $1.1 million. Boynton was the highest paid non-executive doctor on the list. Most of the people on the list were physicians.
Executive registered nurses were also represented, with Eileen Whalen, president and COO of UVMMC at $866,692 and Sandra Fells, chief nurse at UVMMC at $493,159.
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Source: Green Mountain Care Board 8.21.2017