Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Connecticut · Ranked 557 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Bristol Hospital

Kurt Barwis, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-09.

$687,770
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.53%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
26.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Kurt Barwis’s pay of $687,770 equals 26.8 percent of the $2,565,626 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$175,205,210
Total expenses
$168,140,356
Net assets
−$31,962,662
Employees
1,520
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,565,626
Bad debt
$10,239,545
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($22,355,174)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$650,032
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$37,738
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$687,770 to Kurt Barwis

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, Bristol Hospital, EIN 06-0646559, fiscal year ending 2024-09, 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)$29.8M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.6M (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($10.2M) 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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Bristol Hospital: CEO pay $687,770, charity care 1.53% of expenses