Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

New York · Ranked 471 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Brookdale Hospital Medical Center

Sandra Scott, Interim CEO Obhs. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$872,120
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.85%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
4.2%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

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

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Laray Brown, CEO Obhs & Pres.&CEO Until 12/31/23, $1,267,278. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$996,215,964
Total expenses
$1,123,432,263
Net assets
−$423,208,604
Employees
6,210
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$20,837,847
Bad debt
$10,963,572
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$47,164,501
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$803,805
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$68,315
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$872,120 to Sandra Scott

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, Brookdale Hospital Medical Center, EIN 11-1631746, 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)$262.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$20.8M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($11.0M) 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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Brookdale Hospital Medical Center: CEO pay $872,120, charity care 1.85% of expenses