Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kansas · Ranked 903 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Clara Barton Hospital Association

James Tusten, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$253,225
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.17%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
46.7%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
James Tusten’s pay of $253,225 equals 46.7 percent of the $541,857 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$45,477,417
Total expenses
$46,339,461
Net assets
$19,855,144
Employees
395
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$541,857
Bad debt
$1,359,440
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($60,014)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$206,251
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$46,974
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$253,225 to James Tusten

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, Clara Barton Hospital Association, EIN 48-0576039, 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)$5.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$541,857 (10%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($1.4M) 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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Clara Barton Hospital Association: CEO pay $253,225, charity care 1.17% of expenses