Lakeland Regional Health CEO salary and executive pay
Lakeland Regional Health paid its CEO, Danielle Drummond, $1,740,097 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $225,313 (14.9%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. Total revenue on that return was $1,476,822,132, up 10.3% from $1,339,332,000 for the fiscal year ending September 2024. Lakeland Regional Health ranks 193rd of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Lakeland Regional Health has 4 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 59-2650456, Lakeland, FL.
CEO, fiscal year ending September 2025
$1,740,097
Also listed with a chief executive title on this filing: Timothy Regan (President/Chief Medical Officer), $980,643.
- Total revenue
- $1,476,822,132
- CEO pay vs. peers
- Higher than 39%
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202622269349302437.View the filing
Peers: the 183 other hospital systems on this site. Ranked 111th of 184 by top pay as a share of revenue. Pay is 0.12% of revenue, our calculation from the same return. Revenue is Part I, line 12; peers are compared on their latest full-year returns.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 20 people were paid more than $500,000, 1 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| Danielle Drummond CEO President/Chief Exec. Officer | $1,740,097 |
| Lance GreenEVP - Chief Financial Officer | $989,812 |
| Terry HamiltonEVP - Chief Operating Officer | $986,579 |
| Timothy ReganPresident/Chief Medical Officer | $980,643 |
| Jonn HoppeEVP - Chief Legal Officer | $948,949 |
Also paid on the latest return: Graham Greene MD (Medical Director of Surgical and Speci), $810,359; Hal Escowitz (Chief Quality & Medical Informatics), $777,856; Francisco J Chebly (Exec. Director LRH Physician Group), $701,602; Donald Davis MD (Physician), $689,768; Deana L Nelson (SVP - Administration & Corp Priorities), $677,568; Scott Dimmick (SVP - Chief Human Resources Officer), $672,095; Sarah Bhagat (COO/SVP Ambulatory Oper. & Organization), $652,776; Ana Kalman (SVP - CIO/Chief Applications Officer), $651,566; Sowsan Rasheid MD (Physician), $638,335; Patrick Phillips (SVP - Business Development), $609,918; Timothy Boynton (SVP - Development/Chief Public Relations), $599,924; Stacy Bolton (SVP - CIO/Chief Technology Officer), $596,971; April Novotny (SVP - Chief Nurse Executive), $583,611; Michael Spake (SVP - External Affairs/Chief Compliance), $542,888; Nancy Finnigan DO (Designated Institutional Official/Physician), $531,237; and 2 more.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: Dale Dreyer (Chair), Sylvia Blackmon-Roberts (Vice Chair), John Attaway Jr (Director), Fred Blind (Director), Stacy Campbell-Domineck (Director), Jeff Chamberlain (Director), Kimberly Elmhorst (Director), Ed Garcia MD (Director), Matt Green (Director), Jack Harrell III (Director), Kristen Lowers (Director), Cory Petcoff (Director), Bill Pou (Director).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2025 | Danielle Drummond CEO President/Chief Exec. Officer | $1,740,097 | $1,476,822,132 | Filing |
| Sep 2024 | Danielle Drummond CEO President/Chief Exec. Officer | $1,514,784 | $1,339,332,000 | Filing |
| Sep 2023 | Danielle Drummond CEO President/Chief Exec. Officer | $1,543,274 | $1,158,223,255 | Filing |
| Sep 2022 | Danielle Drummond CEO President/Chief Exec. Offi | $1,215,413 | $1,028,284,243 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending September 2025.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending September 2025, IRS object ID 202622269349302437.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| Danielle DrummondPresident/Chief Exec. Officer | $1,487,708 | $252,389 | $1,119,931 | $281,561 | $86,216 | $228,815 | $23,574 | $1,740,097 |
| Lance GreenEVP - Chief Financial Officer | $828,288 | $161,524 | $629,850 | $93,268 | $105,170 | $127,697 | $33,827 | $989,812 |
| Terry HamiltonEVP - Chief Operating Officer | $824,454 | $162,125 | $631,746 | $97,865 | $94,843 | $128,622 | $33,503 | $986,579 |
| Timothy ReganPresident/Chief Medical Officer | $819,330 | $161,313 | $645,546 | $99,548 | $74,236 | $130,536 | $30,777 | $980,643 |
| Jonn HoppeEVP - Chief Legal Officer | $795,552 | $153,397 | $588,359 | $89,480 | $117,713 | $120,731 | $32,666 | $948,949 |
These figures come from Lakeland Regional Health's Form 990 returns, as the IRS publishes them. The methodology page explains how they're chosen. To report an error, email corrections@ceopaycheck.com.
How Lakeland Regional Health compares
Ranked 193rd of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 192nd, Baystate Health, $1,747,717
- Next in this ranking: 194th, Logan Health, $1,740,052
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
Baptist Health (Arkansas)$2,295,979 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Tufts Medical Center$1,816,696 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Asante$1,586,721 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Christ Hospital$1,872,912 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Akron Children's$1,791,308 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
Danielle Drummond (President/Chief Exec. Officer) was paid $1,740,097 for the fiscal year ending September 2025: $1,487,708 from Lakeland Regional Health and $252,389 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, Danielle Drummond, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $1,740,097.
Lakeland Regional Health paid its CEO, Danielle Drummond, $1,740,097 for the fiscal year ending September 2025. That is up $225,313 (14.9%) from the fiscal year ending September 2024. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending September 2022, when the CEO was Danielle Drummond, paid $1,215,413. By fiscal year end: September 2022, $1,215,413 (Danielle Drummond); September 2023, $1,543,274; September 2024, $1,514,784; September 2025, $1,740,097.
Lakeland Regional Health's return for the fiscal year ending September 2025 reports total expenses of $1,296,726,644 and total revenue of $1,476,822,132 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $180,095,488. Expenses were $1,160,155,051 for the fiscal year ending September 2024, so they rose 11.8%. The CEO's pay of $1,740,097 equals 0.13% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 4 Form 990 returns Lakeland Regional Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2025. The latest full-year return was filed on August 14, 2026. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending September 2025 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.