Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Georgia · Ranked 644 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Donalsonville Hospital

Herman Brookins, Chairman/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$536,622
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.64%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
39.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Herman Brookins’s pay of $536,622 equals 39.6 percent of the $1,354,224 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$35,004,811
Total expenses
$37,237,917
Net assets
$17,679,333
Employees
495
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,354,224
Bad debt
$4,502,042
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($512,410)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$536,622
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$0
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$536,622 to Herman Brookins

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, Donalsonville Hospital, EIN 58-0973772, 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)$1.4M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.4M (97%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.5M) 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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Donalsonville Hospital: CEO pay $536,622, charity care 3.64% of expenses