Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

California · Ranked 27 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Memorial Health Services

Barry S Arbuckle, Bd Member- Lbmmc,Ocmmc,Smmc,Mcmf, CEO MHS. Fiscal year ending 2025-06.

$7.1M
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.52%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
41.8%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Barry S Arbuckle’s pay of $7,083,129 equals 41.8 percent of the $16,945,202 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

Most of the reported compensation ($5,859,346 of $7,083,129) came from a related organization (Part VII column E) and was reported on this filing.

Also listed with a chief executive title in the same filings: Marcia Manker, CEO/EVP, Oc Region, CEO Ocmc, $1,700,117; Blair M Kent, CEO/EVP, Lbmmc & Mcwh, $1,547,185; Yair Katz, CEO, Mcwh & SVP Ped, $1,185,909. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$3,129,989,503
Total expenses
$3,234,981,452
Net assets
$2,165,016,354
Employees
12,122
Hospitals covered
4 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$16,945,202
Bad debt
$68,197,095
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($60,865,637)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$5,859,346
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$1,223,783
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$7,083,129 to Barry S Arbuckle

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, Memorial Health Services, EIN 35-2391110, fiscal year ending 2025-06, as published by the IRS. CEO identification: ceo title multiple.

§2Community benefit versus charity care

What the system reported as total community benefit (Schedule H line 7k)$183.3M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$16.9M (9%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($68.2M) 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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Memorial Health Services: CEO pay $7.1M, charity care 0.52% of expenses