Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Nebraska · Ranked 163 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Children's Hospital & Medical Center

Chanda Chacon, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.2M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.06%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
30.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Chanda Chacon’s pay of $2,195,461 equals 30.3 percent of the $7,236,174 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$774,477,317
Total expenses
$685,097,245
Net assets
$1,205,300,785
Employees
4,298
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$7,236,174
Bad debt
$4,264,672
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($804,409)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$1,757,773
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$437,688
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,195,461 to Chanda Chacon

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 & Medical Center, EIN 47-0379754, 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)$232.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$7.2M (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.3M) 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 & Medical Center: CEO pay $2.2M, charity care 1.06% of expenses