High compensation, the average was $1.4 million and the median was $1.3 million.Дr. Among top executives at 20 hospitals selected for their In a report released in February, the tax agency said that the average top management compensation at nonprofit hospitals was $490,000 and the median was $377,000. Pardes earned more than $6 million in compensation, according to the latest publicly reported federal tax forms, including $4.7 million in direct compensation and $1.4 million in contributions to his benefit He said he had what he called an вЂњevergreenвЂќ contract that had to be renewed annually but that required a decision at least a year in Pardes said his compensation was not an issue in his retirement. PardesвЂ™s compensation had come under public scrutiny as both the Senate Finance Committee and the Internal Revenue Service began looking into executive compensation and charity care at nonprofit hospitals.Дr. He said he had decided it was time to retire, and that he expected a national Pardes, 75, said his major accomplishment had been instilling empathy for patients in the hospital staff. Pardes had been an effective fundraiser, raising $1.5 billion to support the hospitalвЂ™s health centers, and bringing national recognition for the quality of care.

Pardes with cementing that merger, вЂњsomething no one else has been able NewYork-Presbyterian was formed in 1997 by the merger of New York Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital. Pardes would remain in his position until the end of 2011, to smooth the transition to a new executive,ДЄnd that he would вЂњcontinue to play a vital role in the hospital beyond that time.вЂќ Mack,Д¬hairman of the hospitalвЂ™s board of trustees and outgoing chief executive of Morgan Stanley, said Dr. In a letter to the hospital staff, John J. Herbert Pardes, is a psychiatrist who took over the helm of NewYork-Presbyterian in January 2000, after serving as the dean of Columbia New York CityвЂ™s largest private hospital announced Friday that its chief executive, one of the highest-paid hospital executives in the country, would be retiring in two years. Ruth Fremson/The New York Times Herbert Pardes has been chief executive of NewYork-Presbyterian since 2000.

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