Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

North Carolina · Ranked 653 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Chatham Hospital

Jeff Strickler, Director/President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$524,111
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
14.59%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
5.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($398,488 of $524,111) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$68,266,257
Total expenses
$63,376,063
Net assets
−$7,480,902
Employees
260
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$9,249,717
Bad debt
$5,502,320
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,993,111)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$398,488
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$125,623
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$524,111 to Jeff Strickler

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, Chatham Hospital, EIN 56-0611546, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$9.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$9.2M (99%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.5M) 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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Chatham Hospital: CEO pay $524,111, charity care 14.59% of expenses