Official Seal, Everything Is Broken (2026)

Everything Is Broken

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

Arkansas · Ranked 853 of 1033 by CEO pay.

Ouachita County Medical Center

Peggy Abbott, President/CEO. Fiscal year ending 2024-09.

$301,298
CEO total compensation
Form 990 Part VII, columns D+E+F
0.10%
of expenses spent on charity care
Schedule H Part I line 7a
709.4%
CEO pay as a share of all charity care
In the most recent filing year, Peggy Abbott’s reported compensation was $301,298. The system’s charity care for the same year was $42,470. One person’s reported compensation was 7.1 times what the system gave to every patient who could not pay.

§1The filing

Total revenue
$38,700,595
Total expenses
$42,923,264
Net assets
$11,340,594
Employees
551
Hospitals covered
1 facilities across 1 filing
Charity care, net
$42,470
Bad debt
$11,285,267
Medicare surplus (shortfall), as filed
($1,307,691)
CEO pay from the organization (Part VII col. D)
$301,298
From related organizations (col. E)
$0
Other compensation, including deferred pay and nontaxable benefits (col. F)
$0
CEO total compensation (D+E+F)
$301,298 to Peggy Abbott

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, Ouachita County Medical Center, EIN 71-0766341, fiscal year ending 2024-09, 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)$317,001 Of which charity care to patients who could not pay (line 7a)$42,470 (13%)

The rest of line 7k is Medicaid shortfall, medical education, research, subsidized services and contributions. Bad debt ($11.3M) 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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Ouachita County Medical Center: CEO pay $301,298, charity care 0.10% of expenses