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Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital

Paul Hammes, CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$523,530

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

1.74%

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

20.3%

CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Paul Hammes’s pay of $523,530 equals 20.3 percent of the $2,578,405 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue: $133,746,492
Total expenses: $148,276,122
Net assets: $153,126,167
Employees: 1,208
Hospitals covered: 1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net: $2,578,405
Bad debt: $9,572,740
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed: $0
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D): $456,071
From related organizations (col. E): $0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F): $67,459
CEO total compensation (D+E+F): $523,530 to Paul Hammes

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, Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, EIN 56-0642846, 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)$7.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$2.6M (34%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($9.6M) 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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Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital reported $523,530 in compensation for chief executive Paul Hammes in the fiscal year ending 2025-09. It spent 1.74% of expenses on charity care, $2,578,405. Source: its own IRS Form 990. https://everythingisbroken.org/reports/hospital-ceo-pay/system/hugh-chatham-memorial-hospital-inc-56-0642846.html