Summa Health CEO salary and executive pay
Summa Health paid its CEO, T Clifford Deveny MD, $2,239,929 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $732,003 (48.5%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. Total revenue on that return was $268,004,285, up 21.5% from $220,581,530 for the fiscal year ending December 2023. Summa Health ranks 156th of 229 hospital systems on this site by CEO pay. Summa Health has 3 Form 990 returns on record, for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024.
Last updated from IRS e-file data. EIN 34-1887844, Akron, OH.
CEO, fiscal year ending December 2024
$2,239,929
- Revenue on this return
- $268,004,285
- This is the system's parent filer; the system's largest single return is filed by Summa Health (EIN 90-0640432), with $1,694,854,147 in revenue on its latest return.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202543189349316144.View the filing
Revenue is Part I, line 12. Pay as a share of revenue and the peer comparison are not shown for a parent filer.
Highest-paid people on the latest return
On the latest return, 11 people were paid more than $500,000, 3 of them more than $1 million.
| Name and title | Total |
|---|---|
| T Clifford Deveny MD CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,239,929 |
| Benjamin P SuttonEVP COO - PROVIDER OPS. | $1,300,445 |
| Dawn AhnerTREAS., SVP, CFO | $1,016,501 |
| Charles Zonfa MDSVP CHIEF QUALITY OFFICER | $898,579 |
| Robert A GerberrySECRETARY/GEN. COUNSEL | $888,612 |
Also paid on the latest return: Elbridge Locklear (SVP CIO), $748,140; Penelope Gorsuch Dnprnnea-Bc (SVP & CHF. NURSING EXEC.), $746,096; Peter Bittenbender MD (DIRECTOR, CLINICAL PHYSICIAN), $744,558; Anthony Colly (SVP HUMAN RESOURCES), $613,884; Kathleen Blake (SVP, PRESIDENT POST ACUTE/HOME), $605,810; Michelle Bisson (SVP MARKETING & BUS. DEV.), $533,101; Dean Frate MD (CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER - HOSPITAL), $456,280; Justin Catlett (VP, CHF. MEDICAL INFO. OFF.), $439,676; Cynthia S Kelley Do (VP MEDICAL EDUCATION), $414,426; Ed Friedl (VP CONSTRUCTION), $411,015; Jennifer Eaton (VP, RESEARCH), $339,969; Lynn Hamrich MD (DIRECTOR, CLINICAL PHYSICIAN), $336,860.
Also listed in Part VII of the latest return, with no pay reported: George Strickler (DIRECTOR AND CHAIRMAN), Nicholas Browning (DIRECTOR AND VICE CHAIR (End 07/24)), Almeta Cooper (DIRECTOR), Barbara Faciana (DIRECTOR), Edward Marx (DIRECTOR), Kathleen Geier (DIRECTOR), Leigh Gerstenberger (DIRECTOR), Orry Jacobs (DIRECTOR), Ramona Hood (DIRECTOR), Randy Langenderfer (DIRECTOR), Steven Gorsuch MD (DIRECTOR).
CEO pay by year
Each row is the CEO on that year's return.
| Fiscal year ending | Name and title | Total | Revenue | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2024 | T Clifford Deveny MD CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,239,929 | $268,004,285 | Filing |
| Dec 2023 | T CLIFFORD DEVENY MD CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $1,507,926 | $220,581,530 | Filing |
| Dec 2022 | T Clifford Deveny MD CEO PRESIDENT & CEO | $2,030,629 | $213,963,221 | Filing |
How this pay was reported
The parts of each total, as reported on the return for the fiscal year ending December 2024.
Source: Form 990, fiscal year ending December 2024, IRS object ID 202543189349316144.View the filing
| Part VII | Schedule J | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name and title | From org | Other | Base | Bonus | Other | Deferred | Nontaxable | Total |
| T Clifford Deveny MDPRESIDENT & CEO | $2,017,927 | $222,002 | $1,217,105 | $643,910 | $156,912 | $190,298 | $31,704 | $2,239,929 |
| Benjamin P SuttonEVP COO - PROVIDER OPS. | $1,167,829 | $132,616 | $728,959 | $388,755 | $50,115 | $95,176 | $37,440 | $1,300,445 |
| Dawn AhnerTREAS., SVP, CFO | $901,252 | $115,249 | $598,643 | $292,638 | $9,971 | $78,579 | $36,670 | $1,016,501 |
| Charles Zonfa MDSVP CHIEF QUALITY OFFICER | $790,911 | $107,668 | $786,026 | $0 | $4,885 | $81,114 | $26,554 | $898,579 |
| Robert A GerberrySECRETARY/GEN. COUNSEL | $797,073 | $91,539 | $487,534 | $259,671 | $49,868 | $65,174 | $26,365 | $888,612 |
These figures come from Summa 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 Summa Health compares
Ranked 156th of 229 hospital systems by CEO pay.
- Previous in this ranking: 155th, Moffitt Cancer Center, $2,243,616
- Next in this ranking: 157th, UVM Medical Center, $2,235,745
Closest in revenue among the hospital systems on this site:
ProMedica Health System$3,133,332 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Queen's Health Systems$1,759,879 (CEO), fiscal year ending Jun 2025
Saint Luke's Health System (Kansas City)$4,448,392 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2023
Baptist Health (Jacksonville)$2,654,184 (CEO), fiscal year ending Sep 2025
Cottage Health$2,100,995 (CEO), fiscal year ending Dec 2024
Common questions
T Clifford Deveny MD (PRESIDENT & CEO) was paid $2,239,929 for the fiscal year ending December 2024: $2,017,927 from Summa Health and $222,002 in other compensation (Part VII columns D and F).
The CEO, T Clifford Deveny MD, was the highest-paid person on the latest return, at $2,239,929.
Summa Health paid its CEO, T Clifford Deveny MD, $2,239,929 for the fiscal year ending December 2024. That is up $732,003 (48.5%) from the fiscal year ending December 2023. The earliest return on record is for the fiscal year ending December 2022, when the CEO was T Clifford Deveny MD, paid $2,030,629. By fiscal year end: December 2022, $2,030,629 (T Clifford Deveny MD); December 2023, $1,507,926; December 2024, $2,239,929.
Summa Health's return for the fiscal year ending December 2024 reports total expenses of $225,412,242 and total revenue of $268,004,285 (Part I, lines 18 and 12), so revenue exceeded expenses by $42,592,043. Expenses were $200,821,206 for the fiscal year ending December 2023, so they rose 12.2%. The CEO's pay of $2,239,929 equals 0.99% of expenses, our calculation.
From the 3 Form 990 returns Summa Health filed with the IRS for fiscal years ending 2022 to 2024. The latest full-year return was filed on November 14, 2025. Schedule J of the fiscal year ending December 2024 return breaks down pay for all 5 people in the pay breakdown above.