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 526 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Effingham Hospital

Fran Witt, Pres/CEO/NH. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$761,500
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
4.16%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
21.6%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Fran Witt’s pay of $761,500 equals 21.6 percent of the $3,518,759 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$88,316,802
Total expenses
$84,682,660
Net assets
$5,927,479
Employees
712
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$3,518,759
Bad debt
$17,735,449
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($39,379)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$753,217
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$8,283
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$761,500 to Fran Witt

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, Effingham Hospital, EIN 47-4393589, 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)$6.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$3.5M (51%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($17.7M) 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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Effingham Hospital: CEO pay $761,500, charity care 4.16% of expenses