Resurrection Health Care is a non-profit health care organization sponsored by the holy orders of the Sisters of the Resurrection and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth. The Sisters of the Resurrection founded Resurrection Medical Center as a community hospital in 1953.
Resurrection began to acquire community hospitals, eventually coming to control eight:
- Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago)
- Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center (Chicago)
- St. Joseph (Chicago)
- St. Francis (Evanston)
- St. Mary of Nazareth & St. Elizabeth Medical Center (Chicago)
- Holy Family Medical Center (Des Plaines)
- West Suburban Medical Center (Oak Park)
- Westlake Hospital (Melrose Park)
Currently, Holy Family Hospital has been converted to a long-term acute care facility, no longer technically a hospital.
As a result of misplaced financial priorities focusing on executive pay, Resurrection began to have serious financial problems. As a result, they sold West Suburban Medical Center and Westlake Hospital in 2010 to Vanguard Health Systems.
Resurrection Health Care is the largest Catholic health care system in Chicago.
Despite RHC’s original mission of providing quality patient care and spiritual ministry, in recent years the system has undergone a systematic program of corporatization, slashing budgets for patient care while increasing executive compensation and cosmetic improvements meant to boost revenue. RHC’s response to its employees’ efforts to organize has been a campaign of intimidation and harassment, including retaining the services of notorious union-busting law firm Seyfarth and Shaw.
The result of this corporatization has been a critical decline in patient care quality, community accountability, and employee involvement in decision making. As Resurrection has abandoned its mission, it has transformed into a sub-par health care system, a poor employer, and a bad neighbor.
Despite RHC’s original mission of providing quality patient care and spiritual ministry, in recent years the system has undergone a systematic program of corporatization, slashing budgets for patient care while increasing executive compensation and cosmetic improvements meant to boost revenue.
RHC’s response to its employees’ efforts to organize has been a campaign of intimidation and harassment, including retaining the services of notorious union-busting law firm Seyfarth and Shaw.
The result of this corporatization has been a critical decline in patient care quality, community accountability, and employee involvement in decision making. As Resurrection has abandoned its mission, it has transformed into a sub-par health care system, a poor employer, and a bad neighbor.
Below are Resurrection's highest-paid executives.
|
NAME |
TITLE |
AFFILIATION |
2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
% Change |
Total Compensation 2007-2009 |
Hourly Wage** |
|
Sandra Bruce |
Pres. & CEO |
RHC/ALL |
-- |
-- |
$1,363,836* |
-- |
$227,306 |
$710.33 |
|
Joseph Toomey |
Former Pres. & CEO |
RHC |
$1,297,597 |
$1,212,391 |
$1,305,396 |
0.6% |
$3,815,384 |
$627.59 |
|
Ronald Struxness |
EVP |
Saint Joseph |
$675,382 |
$849,721 |
$877,251 |
29.9% |
$2,402,354 |
$421.76 |
|
James (Jim) Hill |
EVP |
RHC |
$621,395 |
$700,894 |
$803,190 |
29.3% |
$2,125,479 |
$386.15 |
|
Tom Capobianco |
EVP |
RHC |
$602,383 |
$688,573 |
$756,079 |
25.5% |
$2,047,035 |
$363.50 |
|
John Walton |
EVP |
RHC |
$526,077 |
$689,617 |
$821,712 |
56.2% |
$2,037,406 |
$395.05 |
|
Ivette Estrada |
CEO |
OLR Med Ctr. |
$490,085 |
$405,965 |
$443,217 |
-9.6% |
$1,339,267 |
$213.09 |
|
M. Patricia Shehorn |
CEO |
Westlake Med. Ctr. |
$479,145 |
$475,234 |
$452,881 |
-5.5% |
$1,407,260 |
$217.73 |
|
Jay Kreuzer |
CEO |
West Suburban |
$477,175 |
$523,719 |
$560,918 |
17.5% |
$1,561,812 |
$269.67 |
|
Jeannie Frey |
Sr VP |
RHC |
$473,867 |
$540,258 |
$494,205 |
4.3% |
$1,508,330 |
$237.60 |
|
Sr. Donna Marie Wolowicki |
CEO (retired in 2009) |
RMC |
$470,497 |
$399,011 |
$0.00 |
-100.0% |
$869,508 |
$0.00 |
|
Margaret McDermott |
CEO |
Sts. Mary & Elizabeth |
$465,650 |
$494,994 |
$549,845 |
18.1% |
$1,510,489 |
$264.35 |
|
George Chessum |
Sr VP |
RHC |
$442,074 |
$454,655 |
$470,825 |
6.5% |
$1,367,554 |
$226.36 |
|
Paul T. Skiem. |
Sr VP |
RHC |
$417,792 |
$418,749 |
$441,974 |
5.8% |
$1,278,515 |
$212.49 |
|
John Baird |
CEO |
Holy Family |
$401,339 |
$423,931 |
$457,693 |
14.0% |
$1,282,963 |
$220.04 |
|
Donald Franke |
Sr VP |
RHC |
$366,202 |
$366,385 |
$404,320 |
10.4% |
$1,136,907 |
$194.38 |
|
Starr Novak |
Sr VP |
Res Senior Services |
$344,159 |
$382,856 |
$392,114 |
13.9% |
$1,119,129 |
$188.52 |
|
Marie Cleary-Fishman |
Sr VP |
Res Home Health Services |
$300,514 |
$334,337 |
$361,082 |
20.2% |
$995,933 |
$173.60 |
|
Jeff Murphy |
CEO |
St. Francis of Evanston |
$295,404 |
$483,524 |
$475,333 |
60.9% |
$1,254,261 |
$228.53 |
*Compensation for each years is based on the earnings reported for the previous year. Only two months of Bruce's employment at RHC were reported on the FY2009 990s, so her total yearly compensation was calculated based on the reported period.
** Hourly wage assumes a 40-hour work week.
|
SUPPLIES & PATIENT CARE SALARIES AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL REVENUE 2006-2009 |
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|
Year |
Non-management Patient Care Salaries as a Percent of Resurrection Total Revenue (from the RHC Hospitals' IRS Form-990s) |
Patient Care Supplies as a Percent of Resurrection Total Revenue (from the RHC Hospitals' IRS Form-990s) |
Total Revenue (from the RHC Audited Financial Statements) |
|
2006 |
31% |
11% |
$1,496,110,000 |
|
2007 |
29% |
10% |
$1,669,799,000 |
|
2008 |
31% |
10% |
$1,687,696,000 |
|
2009 |
31% |
(Not Reported) |
$1,697,885,000 |
|
Percent Change |
0% |
-15% |
13% |