Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

Report No. 1 · Nonprofit Hospital Executive Pay vs Charity Care · Annual Report, 2026 edition

Minnesota · Ranked 603 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Aitkin Community Hospital dba Riverwood Healthcare Center

Ken Westman, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$606,317
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.06%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
46.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Ken Westman’s pay of $606,317 equals 46.3 percent of the $1,310,733 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$120,928,291
Total expenses
$123,287,714
Net assets
$63,392,511
Employees
600
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,310,733
Bad debt
$1,337,092
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$552,849
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$53,468
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$606,317 to Ken Westman

Medicare surplus (shortfall) is Schedule H Part III line 7: Medicare revenue minus the cost of Medicare care. A figure in parentheses is a shortfall. Like bad debt, it is not community benefit on the IRS form.

Source: Form 990, Aitkin Community Hospital dba Riverwood Healthcare Center, EIN 41-0745522, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$5.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.3M (24%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.3M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

Every number on this page was copied from the filing linked above. If a figure is wrong, send the filing that contradicts it and the correction runs at the top of this page.

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Aitkin Community Hospital dba Riverwood Healthcare Center: CEO pay $606,317, charity care 1.06% of expenses