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Lynn Britton, chief executive of Mercy, received $2.2 million in total compensation in fiscal year 2012 — a 15 percent increase over 2011. A year earlier, he received an 18 percent increase. Britton declined to comment.
Five current and former Mercy executives received total compensation in fiscal year 2012 exceeding $1 million.
Mercy executives are provided additional perquisites, including first class and charter travel on Mercy’s aircraft and the opportunity at times for their spouses to accompany them to business and other events. Executives and staff fly to and from some business meetings in Mercy’s midsize corporate jet, a Rockwell Sabreliner.
Mercy board members and executives also hold retreats in Dublin to commemorate where the health system’s sponsor — the Sisters of Mercy religious order — was founded in about 1830.
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