Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Vermont · Ranked 723 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

Christopher Dougherty, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$452,245
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.30%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
120.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Christopher Dougherty’s reported compensation was $452,245. The system’s charity care for the same year was $375,635. One person’s reported compensation was 1.2 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

Most of the reported compensation ($401,260 of $452,245) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$115,757,208
Total expenses
$126,554,492
Net assets
$58,127,147
Employees
864
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$375,635
Bad debt
$3,344,653
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($19,013,938)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$401,260
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$50,985
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$452,245 to Christopher Dougherty

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, Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, EIN 03-0107300, fiscal year ending 2025-09, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: manual override.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$33.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$375,635 (1%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.3M) 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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Brattleboro Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $452,245, charity care 0.30% of expenses