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 51 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Kennestone Hospital

Candice Saunders, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$5.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
3.94%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
2.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care

Most of the reported compensation ($4,958,202 of $5,069,923) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$6,529,045,150
Total expenses
$5,668,407,015
Net assets
$873,913,577
Employees
26,309
Hospitals covered
13 facilities across 10 filings
Charity care, net
$223,433,098
Bad debt
$210,133,447
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($462,005,715)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$4,958,202
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$111,721
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$5,069,923 to Candice Saunders

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, Kennestone Hospital, EIN 58-2032904, 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)$258.5M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$223.4M (86%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($210.1M) and Medicare shortfall are reported separately by the IRS and are not community benefit on the form.

§3Filings in this system

Filing entityEINFY endRevenueCharity care% of expensesFiling
Kennestone Hospital Inc58-20329042025-06$2.3B$64.7M3.44%990
Cobb Hospital Inc58-09683822025-06$1.3B$61.4M5.73%990
Au Medical Center Inc58-21447882025-06$1.3B$1.6M0.14%990
Wellstar North Fulton Hospital81-08517562025-06$415.1M$23.9M6.31%990
Paulding Medical Center Inc58-20958842025-06$362.2M$20.2M6.36%990
West Georgia Medical Center Inc20-54975062025-06$338.6M$18.7M6.27%990
Douglas Hospital Inc58-20267502025-06$270.6M$12.9M4.96%990
Wellstar Spalding Regional Hospital Inc81-08647892025-06$203.5M$15.9M7.64%990
Wellstar Sylvan Grove Hospital81-08750692025-06$24.9M$3.4M15.88%990
Wellstar Mcg Health Warm Springsinc46-48240432025-06$16.7M$756,4223.31%990

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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Kennestone Hospital: CEO pay $5.1M, charity care 3.94% of expenses