Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Colorado · Ranked 62 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Children's Hospital Colorado

Jena Hausmann, Chief Executive Officer. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$4.3M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.15%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
143.5%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Jena Hausmann’s reported compensation was $4,286,194. The system’s charity care for the same year was $2,986,103. One person’s reported compensation was 1.4 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$2,014,273,578
Total expenses
$1,968,035,328
Net assets
$1,390,197,309
Employees
11,403
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$2,986,103
Bad debt
$19,298,164
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($407,278)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$3,848,363
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$437,831
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$4,286,194 to Jena Hausmann

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, Children's Hospital Colorado, EIN 84-0166760, 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)$440.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.0M (1%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($19.3M) 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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Children's Hospital Colorado: CEO pay $4.3M, charity care 0.15% of expenses