Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Pennsylvania · Not ranked: see note below.

Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton

Tammy Torres Dnp RN, President/Trustee. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$460,182
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.84%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
26.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Tammy Torres Dnp RN’s pay of $460,182 equals 26.9 percent of the $1,709,653 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

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
$247,294,494
Total expenses
$204,043,006
Net assets
$198,159,362
Employees
836
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,709,653
Bad debt
$3,238,582
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($2,497,059)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$457,205
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$2,977
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$460,182 to Tammy Torres Dnp RN

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, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton, EIN 23-2421970, fiscal year ending 2025-06, 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)$20.7M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.7M (8%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($3.2M) 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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Lehigh Valley Hospital-Hazleton: CEO pay $460,182, charity care 0.84% of expenses