Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Mississippi · Ranked 761 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Baptist Memorial Hospital- North Mississippi

Brian Welton, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$403,714
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.99%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
3.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($336,232 of $403,714) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$311,104,462
Total expenses
$269,011,397
Net assets
$469,172,513
Employees
1,517
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$13,417,785
Bad debt
$690,078
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$2,642,959
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$336,232
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$67,482
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$403,714 to Brian Welton

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, Baptist Memorial Hospital- North Mississippi, EIN 64-0772726, 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)$17.0M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$13.4M (79%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($690,078) 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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Baptist Memorial Hospital- North Mississippi: CEO pay $403,714, charity care 4.99% of expenses