Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arkansas · Ranked 999 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Chicot Memorial Medical Center

John Heard, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-03.

$164,361
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.88%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
81.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
John Heard’s pay of $164,361 equals 81.9 percent of the $200,609 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$23,070,157
Total expenses
$22,743,208
Net assets
$15,082,048
Employees
194
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$200,609
Bad debt
$1,006,466
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($82,657)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$160,677
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$3,684
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$164,361 to John Heard

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, Chicot Memorial Medical Center, EIN 38-3807713, fiscal year ending 2025-03, 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)$305,762 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$200,609 (66%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.0M) 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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Chicot Memorial Medical Center: CEO pay $164,361, charity care 0.88% of expenses