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 606 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Orchard Hospital

Steven Stark, CEO (Thru Aug 2024). Fiscal year ending 2024-06.

$604,619
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.22%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
811.9%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Steven Stark’s reported compensation was $604,619. The system’s charity care for the same year was $74,466. One person’s reported compensation was 8.1 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$33,716,224
Total expenses
$34,164,581
Net assets
$7,616,182
Employees
309
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$74,466
Bad debt
$2,923,467
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($28,773)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$581,782
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$22,837
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$604,619 to Steven Stark

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, Orchard Hospital, EIN 94-1049467, fiscal year ending 2024-06, 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)$2.9M Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$74,466 (3%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($2.9M) 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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Orchard Hospital: CEO pay $604,619, charity care 0.22% of expenses