Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Massachusetts · Not ranked: see note below.

Berkshire Medical Center

Darlene Rodowicz, President. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.31%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
44.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Darlene Rodowicz’s pay of $1,180,216 equals 44.8 percent of the $2,634,673 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

Most of the reported compensation ($1,124,806 of $1,180,216) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$989,928,833
Total expenses
$852,411,795
Net assets
$836,763,447
Employees
4,338
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$2,634,673
Bad debt
$34,624,282
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($91,718,034)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$1,124,806
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$55,410
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$1,180,216 to Darlene Rodowicz

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, Berkshire Medical Center, EIN 04-2791396, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$37.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.6M (7%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($34.6M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Berkshire Medical Center Inc04-27913962025-09$824.8M$1.1M0.16%990
Fairview Hospital04-21338602025-09$106.1M$1.0M1.20%990
North Adams Regional Hospital93-24847322025-09$59.0M$519,4641.11%990

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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Berkshire Medical Center: CEO pay $1.2M, charity care 0.31% of expenses