Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 369 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bakersfield Memorial Hospital

Kenneth Keller, Ex-Officio Dir/President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$1.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.92%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
18.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kenneth Keller’s pay of $1,114,329 equals 18.7 percent of the $5,965,998 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($994,368 of $1,114,329) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$769,905,868
Total expenses
$651,704,510
Net assets
$1,080,770,024
Employees
2,691
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$5,965,998
Bad debt
$1,148,162
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($14,649,937)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$994,368
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$119,961
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,114,329 to Kenneth Keller

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, Bakersfield Memorial Hospital, EIN 95-1802779, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$45.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$6.0M (13%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.1M) 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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Bakersfield Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $1.1M, charity care 0.92% of expenses