Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Kentucky · Ranked 812 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Memorial Hospital

Bejarano Nick, Director/CEO (Beg 12/24). Fiscal year ending 2024-12.

$349,394
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.35%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
29.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Bejarano Nick’s pay of $349,394 equals 29.3 percent of the $1,193,260 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

The chief executive's title on the filing indicates a change during the year (Director/CEO (Beg 12/24)); the pay shown is what the filing reports for that person, which may cover part of the year.

Most of the reported compensation ($303,796 of $349,394) 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: Thompson Michael, Director/ Regional CEO, $1,851,004. Where a chief executive retired during the year, the filing reports the final-year payout.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$93,689,857
Total expenses
$88,559,935
Net assets
$20,385,941
Employees
714
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,193,260
Bad debt
$2,464,320
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,857,882)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$0
From related organizations (col. E)
$303,796
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$45,598
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$349,394 to Bejarano Nick

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 Hospital, EIN 61-0594620, fiscal year ending 2024-12, 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)$1.6M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.2M (77%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.5M) 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 Hospital: CEO pay $349,394, charity care 1.35% of expenses