Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arkansas · Ranked 1012 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Howard Memorial Hospital

Stacy Harberson, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$145,828
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.18%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
36.0%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Stacy Harberson’s pay of $145,828 equals 36.0 percent of the $404,908 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$33,495,285
Total expenses
$34,327,261
Net assets
$25,751,278
Employees
261
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$404,908
Bad debt
$4,075,467
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
$1,085,469
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$145,828
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$0
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$145,828 to Stacy Harberson

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, Howard Memorial Hospital, EIN 71-0644637, 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)$434,863 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$404,908 (93%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.1M) 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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Howard Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $145,828, charity care 1.18% of expenses