Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Ohio · Not ranked: see note below.

Joint Township District Memorial Hospital

Cynthia Berning, President. Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$546,005
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.22%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
253.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Cynthia Berning’s reported compensation was $546,005. The system’s charity care for the same year was $215,475. One person’s reported compensation was 2.5 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

Not in the ranking because the chief executive could not be identified from the filing with confidence. The figures below are shown as filed.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$107,691,133
Total expenses
$100,128,268
Net assets
$56,332,249
Employees
838
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$215,475
Bad debt
$5,135,706
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($6,923,776)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$350,045
From related organizations (col. E)
$156,384
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$39,576
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$546,005 to Cynthia Berning

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, Joint Township District Memorial Hospital, EIN 34-1623770, fiscal year ending 2024-12, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: president title.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$5.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$215,475 (4%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($5.1M) 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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Joint Township District Memorial Hospital: CEO pay $546,005, charity care 0.22% of expenses