Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kentucky · Ranked 837 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Continuecare Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah

Lee Gentry, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$326,197
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.65%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
235.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Lee Gentry’s reported compensation was $326,197. The system’s charity care for the same year was $138,778. One person’s reported compensation was 2.4 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

Most of the reported compensation ($263,468 of $326,197) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$7,897,399
Total expenses
$8,415,495
Net assets
$197,476
Employees
100
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$138,778
Bad debt
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$668,049
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$263,468
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$62,729
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$326,197 to Lee Gentry

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, Continuecare Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah, EIN 46-5032999, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$184,098 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$138,778 (75%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt () 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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Continuecare Hospital at Baptist Health Paducah: CEO pay $326,197, charity care 1.65% of expenses