Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Vermont · Ranked 685 of 1033 by CEO pay.

North Country Hospital & Health Center

Thomas Frank, President & CEO. Fiscal year ending 2025-09.

$497,314
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
1.16%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
37.3%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
Thomas Frank’s pay of $497,314 equals 37.3 percent of the $1,334,773 the system spent on charity care in the same year.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$114,371,642
Total expenses
$115,509,209
Net assets
$68,539,774
Employees
701
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$1,334,773
Bad debt
$4,132,455
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($5,318,659)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$475,684
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$21,630
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$497,314 to Thomas Frank

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, North Country Hospital & Health Center, EIN 03-0185556, fiscal year ending 2025-09, 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)$27.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$1.3M (5%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($4.1M) 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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North Country Hospital & Health Center: CEO pay $497,314, charity care 1.16% of expenses