Life at Lancaster County's other nonprofit tax-exempt hospital is a lot less lucrative.
Ephrata Community Hospital is far smaller than Lancaster General Health, with reported 2010-11 revenues of $172.17 million (compared with nearly $1 billion for LGH).
And at Ephrata, the highest-paid employee wasn't the CEO — it was a doctor.
The compensation of Dr. Peter D. Cote, director of pathology and laboratory services, totaled $537,561 for the year — about $1,500 more than that of President and CEO John M. Porter Jr.
The only other executive to make more than $250,000 was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Robert F. Graupensperger, whose compensation totaled $267,680.
While the figures pale in comparison to compensation at LGH, they're typical of institutions of Ephrata's size, said Joanne Eshelman, the hospital's director of community relations.
"Ephrata looks at information from hospitals that are similar to our size and services when determining compensation for all executives," she said in an email.
The other two hospitals in Lancaster County, Lancaster Regional Medical Center and Heart of Lancaster Regional Medical Center, are for-profit hospitals owned by Naples, Fla.-based Health Management Associates. As such, they aren't required to file details of executive compensation with the Internal Revenue Service.
