Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

West Virginia · Ranked 116 of 1033 by CEO pay.

City Hospital

Albert Wright, Director, CEO WVUHS. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$2.7M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.43%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
72.1%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Albert Wright’s pay of $2,726,278 equals 72.1 percent of the $3,780,393 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($2,297,899 of $2,726,278) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$953,590,943
Total expenses
$884,162,867
Net assets
$424,595,408
Employees
4,515
Hospitals covered
3 facilities across 3 filings
Charity care, net
$3,780,393
Bad debt
$16,445,709
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($86,322,899)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$2,297,899
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$428,379
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$2,726,278 to Albert Wright

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, City Hospital, EIN 55-0383321, 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)$95.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.8M (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($16.4M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
City Hospital Inc55-03833212024-12$426.9M$2.2M0.58%990
Herbert J Thomas Memorial Hospital Association55-04049002024-12$425.8M$997,1150.27%990
Jefferson Memorial Hospital55-03597552024-12$100.9M$574,4070.67%990

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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City Hospital: CEO pay $2.7M, charity care 0.43% of expenses