Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

South Dakota · Ranked 1016 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home

Shandel Anson, CEO - Beginning March 2024. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$126,784
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.40%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
252.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Shandel Anson’s reported compensation was $126,784. The system’s charity care for the same year was $50,174. One person’s reported compensation was 2.5 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

The chief executive's title on the filing indicates a change during the year (CEO - BEGINNING MARCH 2024); the pay shown is what the filing reports for that person, which may cover part of the year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$12,552,542
Total expenses
$12,602,434
Net assets
$8,180,976
Employees
90
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$50,174
Bad debt
$1,719,164
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($93,758)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$107,526
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$19,258
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$126,784 to Shandel Anson

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, Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home, EIN 43-2040599, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$1.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$50,174 (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.7M) 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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Bennett County Hospital and Nursing Home: CEO pay $126,784, charity care 0.40% of expenses