Article: Salaries soar for hospital CEOs

Report says average income was $638,559

By Kevin Lamb, Dayton Daily News (12/17/05)

DAYTON Local hospital CEOs had the highest average total compensation of eight Ohio regions in the latest report by the state's largest union for health care workers.

That was 36 percent above the statewide average of $468,941.

Cash income averages were $488,637 locally and $379,755 for the state.

As it attempts to organize health-care workers in some Ohio hospitals, District 1199 has published three studies in the hospital accountability project it calls "Care for Ohio."

This week's study is called "Over the Top."

One reason for Dayton's state-leading CEO compensation might have been the absence of two hospital presidents on the list and the high compensations of two network presidents, which increased the local ratio of higher-paid system CEOs to hospital CEOs.

Frank Perez of Kettering Medical Center Network received $1,346,259 in 2004 compensation, a 32.6 percent increase over 2003.

Premier Health Partners' Tom Breitenbach received $934,511, a raise of 3.4 percent.

Presidents Fred Manchur of Kettering Medical Center and Roy Chew of Grandview and Southview hospitals were not in the report.