Executive Compensation at Northwell Health

Northwell Health is New York’s largest healthcare provider with 23 hospitals and 750 outpatient facilities with more than 68,000 employees across the network (which includes many organizations).

The focus of this post is on the executive compensation of Northwell Healthcare, Inc., a non-profit, tax-exempt 501 (c) (3) based in Westbury, New York with 6,929 employees who were compensated $543 million in 2017, which equates to an average compensation of $78,400.

1,302 employees received more than $100,000 in compensation with the 23 most highly compensated employees reported (from the Form 990 submitted to the IRS for 2017) to be:

$4,096,767:  Michael J Dowling, President and CEO

$3,672,267:  Dennis Connors, SVP Regional Executive Director

$3,255,827:  Mark J Solazzo, EVP, Chief Operating Officer

$1,867,708:  Jeffrey Kraut, EVP Strategy and Analytics

$1,827,989:  Howard Gold, EVP Chief Managed Care

$1,697,919:  Robert S Shapiro, EVP Chief Financial Officer

$1,685,329:  Peter Berger, Former SVP, Clinical Research

$1,560,621:  Eugene Tangney, SVP, Chief Admin Officer

$1,470,669:  Jason Naidich, SVP, Regional Executive Director

$1,379,722:  Lawrence G Smith, EVP Physician in Chief

$1,354,855:  Chantal Weinhold, Regional Executive Director

$1,346,806:  Winifred Mack, Regional Executive Director

$1,327,496:  Richard Miller, EVP Chief Business Strategy Officer

$1,319,918:  Joseph Moscola, SVP Chief People Officer

$1,281,841:  Laura Peabody, SVP and Chief Legal Officer

$1,253,695:  Anthony C Ferreri, Chief Affiliation Officer

$1,221,166:  Michele Cusack, SVP and CFO

$1,206,131:  Donna Drummond, SVP Consolidated Services *

$1,044,286:  Ralph Nappi, Trustee and EVC *

$  983,727:  Kathleen Gallo, SVP and Chief Learning Officer

$  937,527:  Laurence Kraemer, SVP, Interim Chief Legal Officer

$  634,849:  Mark Gloade, SVP Deputy General Counsel

$  404,973:  Harry Gindi, Assistant Secretary

The employees (Drummond and Nappi) with a “*” received compensation from an affiliated/related organization.

17 of the 23 (74%) of the most highly compensated employees are male with 6 (26%) are female. The 10 most highly compensated employees are male.

The 23 employees listed above received $37 million in compensation, which equates to an average compensation of $1.6 million.

To read the IRS Form 990 (2017), click here.