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Emerson Hospital

Christine C Schuster, President And CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$1.7M

CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F

0.58%

of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a

72.1%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Christine C Schuster’s pay of $1,664,410 equals 72.1 percent of the $2,308,661 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $412,015,773
Total expenses: $400,914,121
Net assets: $129,654,696
Employees: 2,696
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $2,308,661
Bad debt: $2,267,635
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: ($9,003,205)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $1,355,693
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $308,717
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $1,664,410 to Christine C Schuster

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, Emerson Hospital, EIN 04-2103565, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$15.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.3M (15%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.3M) 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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Emerson Hospital reported $1,664,410 in compensation for chief executive Christine C Schuster in the fiscal year ending 2025-09. It spent 0.58% of expenses on charity care, $2,308,661. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/emerson-hospital-04-2103565.html